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started in dynamics 365 consulting a few years ago and now i feel completely boxed in.

i've tried applying to other roles but recruiters seem to only see "dynamics consultant" and instantly put me into the erp bucket forever.

which is frustrating because the actual work is mostly stakeholder management, workshops, requirements gathering, process improvement, project delivery, client communication, etc.

feels like i specialized too early and accidentally locked myself into a niche. anyone here actually manage to get out of dynamics/ sap/erp consulting? what

26F with 2YOE based in London. Recently promoted to Consultant but was only offered £40k, no bonus.

Wasn’t happy with this salary for two reasons - the first being that it’s below the £42k last year’s consultants were paid, and the second being that I work 50-60 hour weeks and regularly take on more responsibility for my role, including writing proposals where I’ve ended up winning 9% of our total department’s revenue from January to present.

I presented this to my line manager who said she didn’t feel comfortable supporting or raising my request with the senior leadership team given how the wider business is performing. This is while our department has been making our targets and expensing 5 star hotels for our partners. She could tell I wasn’t happy with what she’d said so she offered to see whether there was scope to negotiate my salary with a more senior manager.

The more senior manager also said no with her reason being that ‘this has come from head office’ and that ‘the business is cutting budgets’. That said, I don’t think asking for my salary to be benchmarked against previous cohorts let alone reflect my contribution is asking for much, particularly when the increase in question wouldn’t have amounted to more than £300 or so month.

Feel so exhausted, demotivated, and resentful when I reflect on my experience working for this company. I’ve updated my CV and LinkedIn but I’m not sure I can make it through another 3-6 months while I look for another job. I don’t think I can force myself to rewrite content that’s been blatantly been written by AI, juggle multiple projects where I’m usually the only person working on them other than the project lead, or even bring myself to go into the office.

I don’t think calling in sick is an option given that I’m the only person working on the projects I’m on, though. What do I do? Would really appreciate any advice.

TLDR: burnt out, demotivated, and resentful after company refused to negotiate salary. Need advice on how to make it through without crashing out until I find another job.

Difficult tasks and feeling stressed

Hey everyone, I am currently an implementation consultant, almost hitting my 2 year mark in the industry.

I was recently tasked with designing a process and delivering the solution to the client, this requires configuring an ISV, along with the base ERP to meet the requirements of the client.

The issue is, I have not had extensive experience in the ISV itself, and the informational support on the ISV is lackluster at best. My senior wants to me figure this out all on my own, but the more I explore the more confusing it gets, I’m feeling like I’m just not adequate at my job at this point, I really want to deliver but I feel like I’m failing.

I know the world of ERP is vast the technical knowledge one can possess is infinite, but does anyone have any advice or maybe tips that I can use, that maybe I’m not using?

I would use AI, but the LLM does not know enough on the ISV to guide me, and I don’t have good enough data to feed it for it to configure.

Thanks

Been using Harvest for a several years, looking for alternatives.

I'd really like something that intelligently lets me create a new project, create an estimate for it, and keeps track of project numbering without me having to intervene every time...

Even better if it knows how the next new project should be numbered.

BIG plus: good, timely support

Currently, I keep track by client + project + category, and generally do fixed fees.

Any suggestions appreciated!

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Diagnosed with ADHD right before starting at an MBB firm. Been here a little over a year and still often feel dumb in meetings because I struggle to keep track of fast-moving discussions and multiple workstreams. English also isn’t my first language, which adds to the processing load.
The confusing part is that I actually do good work and get things done — I just seem slower at processing things live compared to others around me.
I had a similar experience at a previous job initially, but adapted much faster there. Haven’t tried stimulant meds yet, only antidepressants which didn’t help.
For people with ADHD in consulting/high-pressure jobs:
- Did it get better with time?
- Did ADHD medication help significantly?
- or did you eventually realize the environment just wasn’t the right fit for your brain?

Hi all, have been feeling quite burnt out and hoping for advice on what keeps you all going in this job. Would love to hear some positive advice on how to keep going

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The 75-80 hour work weeks are really killing me (14h/day, 5-10 hours on weekends). I’ve been around for almost a year, and have been feeling really burnt out recently.

In the final rounds of this interview at Capgemini Invent. They sent over a case study and asked me to prepare a deck. Kind of like an RFP. I'm assuming I do a presentation in the next round.

If someone has gone through similar interviews , What do I expect in the actual interview round? I would also appreciate any tips on presentation.

This job has make me more suicidal. It feels like i can always solve it if I put time into it. But idk why I've just been freezing and not being able to get started in recent times.

Even in an era where claude is present and we can always take a stab on it no matter how hard things are. Idk maybe its time to quit this job, take some time off, reset and restart

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Hi,

I'm based out of India.

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Consultant at Deloitte USI

MBA- Tier 1

Total work experience- ~6yrs

Primary work area- Supply chain

I want to know if at all it's possible to make a move to MBB. If yes, how? I keep applying there but keep getting rejection emails.

Any advice would be appreciated.

Thanks!

I’ve noticed that in professional settings, some people speak with so much confidence even when discussing things I know well, and I sometimes end up second-guessing myself or staying quieter than I should.

For those who’ve worked in consulting (or similar client-facing roles), how did you build confidence in meetings, discussions, or when presenting your thoughts?

Was it just experience, better communication, preparation, or something else?

Would appreciate honest advice from people who’ve actually improved at this.

Asking because I keep watching this from the engineering side and the over budget pattern is depressingly consistent.

McKinsey's State of AI puts the average enterprise AI project at 2.7x the original budget, RAND says 80% of them fail to deploy at all, and Gartner's call for end of 2026 is that 60% get cancelled outright because the data foundations don't hold. Where it always seems to go sideways is the data plumbing, where 20 to 40% of the first time AI implementation cost is just getting the data clean enough for the model to be the easy part. PoCs come in fine because the dataset is hand curated. Production engagements blow up the moment you touch the real warehouse.

Has anyone here actually delivered one on budget that wasn't a narrowly scoped chatbot or a partner eating the overrun?

I am genuinely curious why so many consultants don’t have a personal laptop. Is work your whole life? Do you not do anything outside of work?

I use my personal laptop for watching shows/movies, managing personal finances, working on side projects, personal travel, job searching, networking, etc.

There are so many restrictions on work laptops plus I wouldn’t want my company knowing most of what I do either.