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[yvannairie]

Damn all this eloquence is wasted on a person who doesn't know how to talk about anything but themselves.

I've got that "scary articulate" thing going for practically nothing.

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[yvannairie]

Oh man. This was actually super informative, thank you. I feel for consultancy as a service, I'd still need some kind of a degree (or experience in the field) to be able to effectively do it but product consultancy... actually sounds a lot like some design projects I've taken on? I've worked preproduction a bit, and it's something I enjoy but that is very hard to break into if you're an utter artistic sinkhole like I am, product consultancy feels like it'd be the kind of thing where I could put my nascent producer skills into use somehow.

On top of being good with the words, I'm actually not-terrible at project management. I just have zero interest to be some kind of a manager b/c it simultaneously an utterly useless made-up position that nobody takes seriously but if you do end up taking it seriously, it's... a lot of responsibility. And too much responsibility is literally the whole reason I dislike leading other people.

[snake_socks]

lol, nice - glad to help! I guess I have a lot of career-themed words in me these days.

Idk about outside the tech corner, but from what I've seen the trend for allowing people to grow in their job without becoming people-managers is definitely catching on. And in my org, we differentiate project manager and consultant as roles, but I know many places that don't.

Actually, if you like I can tell you a bit more about my own background and concrete examples or whatever, but maybe DM me for that ^^°

[yvannairie]

I'll do that :D

[yvannairie]

I can't say you didn't get me curious. My mom and adoptive dad are both entrepreneurs -- they work in finance, doing private banking and investment consultation. I think that might be affecting how I feel about the idea of "consultation" in general, b/c what they do has a big marketing component in what kind of investment services they end up taking on and offering to their clients.

And I am a terrible salesperson. A big part of the appeal of directing is getting to execute on a vision, and a big thing that put me off actually going to film school was that I'd have to keep selling my ideas instead of getting to really focus on making them.