u/BahnMiEnjoyer

Mechanical engineer with 4 YOE, PE. My UT goal is 92% which basically covers only PTO for the year. We are heavily "encouraged" to be fully billable which basically means burning budget on big jobs and limping by on small jobs and hoping budget is not a problem later.

I've played both sides of billing lots of non-billable hours and getting a call from management telling me to find the hours on one side and over-billing hours and limping by on budget later on. The latter keeps management happy and me stressed. How do you and your teams handle this? Is this just consulting hell these days?