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12 Signs You Are Dating a Consultant
However, a date with a consultant can be somewhat… different, shall I say?
How to save your consultant boyfriend
Girls, here’s 12 signs that you might be dating a management consultant:
1. Considers dating different girls as “mystery shopping”
2. Asks about lifestyle and hour preference during your first date
3. Asks for the receipt at the end of a romantic dinner (guess why?)
4. Orders appetizer and dessert while eating street food
5. Writes a text with bullet points
6. Wonders if he should write a summary email of the first date to the the girl’s parents
7. Draws a decision tree of different options when answering the question “what are we now?”
8. Complains that girls always speak without being fact-based
9. Refers to a conversation to resolve a fight as a “problem-solver”
10. Considers a kiss on first date a “quick win”
11. Shreds all evidence and consistently denies the dating relationship everyone knows about
12. “Do you remember our first kiss?”
“Yes, of course, I remember, 2011-08-01 Kiss 1.0.”
If your date has the above signs, please understand that the guy has sold his soul to the company, following 2 years of consulting work.
Treat him with kindness, and you might just be able to bring sanity back to him.
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Management consulting is an industry providing expensive and professional advice to organizations to improve their overall performance, through better “management”, which includes strategy, governance, operation, organization, finance, and marketing. The three most prestigious management consulting firms are McKinsey, BCG, and Bain (the Big Three).