A Week In The Life Of A Consultant - Travel Edition

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there's a common saying in business

every year in consulting is like three

years in the corporate world you have so

many clients face different issues every

day you're forced to grow exponentially

and i found that to be so true i'm

hisham khan and this is my week as a

consultant

every single day i wake up at 5 am to

get ahead of my competition

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just kidding that's something these fake

millionaire gurus preach to make

themselves feel like they're better than

others in this video i'm going to tell

you exactly how it is no bs

in reality i like to ease into my

morning and putter around i woke up at 8

15 and got ready for the day i have a

flight to chicago at 9 40 but i don't

have to go into the office today so i

just put on some sweats after literally

hundreds of flights i have learned

flying in suits is overrated so i'll

take any opportunity to be as

comfortable as possible i always have my

bags ready the night before flying so i

was out the door by 8 40 and hopped into

an uber to the airport usually in a

morning uber ride i like to relax and

just enjoy what's happening in the city

today i saw the u.n and got to the

airport at 9 10 just in time for

boarding

the cabin

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once the flight takes off i rip out my

laptop and start planning for my monday

meetings while eating the airline snacks

for breakfast as consultants we're

always moving around and are super busy

a huge part of the job is managing your

time to get stuff done whenever you can

once my work is in a good spot it's time

for a little nap until we land at 11 30.

i actually woke up a bit early for my

nap today so i took some time to write

articles for income over outcome.com

usually we would go straight from the

airport to go meet our clients but this

week is a bit different because i'm just

having some internal meetings so i got

into an uber and straight to the hotel i

had three meetings starting at 12 30 so

i just started working as soon as i got

to the hotel once the meetings were done

there were a bunch of deliverables i had

to get ready for my client so i pretty

much worked straight until about 6 30.

that's when i took a break to get some

coffee to keep me going i ended up

finishing working at around 9 30 and was

finally able to get some dinner i hadn't

really eaten all day so i chose some

classic deep dish chicago pizza that was

a ton of food but i absolutely killed it

and i ate the pizza while watching the

season finale of succession which was

incredibly intense overall it was the

perfect way to end the day and while i

was getting ready for bed i found one of

the coolest and honestly extremely

useless features of my hotel room that

was a tv built right into the bathroom

mirror i can't think of a single reason

you would want to use this but hey let

me know if you would use it in the

comments i ended up going to bed a bit

after 12 and woke up at 7 20 so i could

be in the office by 8am i had two client

meetings and two internal meetings on

tuesday and if you ever wondered what a

conference room taken over by

consultants looks like here you go it's

just a table full of laptops and food

that everyone has eaten throughout the

day i went back to the hotel with my

co-workers at around 5 30 and we had

dinner reservations at 6 30 but i was

able to get in a 20 minute power nap and

then met up with everyone else for

dinner usually after dinner everybody

from the analysts to all their bosses

liked to go out so we went to a classic

arcade bar and ended up staying out

until about 11 30. i didn't get to go to

bed until 12 30 but still woke up at 7

20 because i had to meet my co-workers

in the hotel lobby at 7 40 to get to

work we got chick-fil-a for breakfast

and i needed it because wednesdays tend

to be my most busy day i had five hours

of meetings summer with clients and some

were internal but we had dinner

reservations at 6 30 again so we left

the office at around 5 30 so everyone

could freshen up in the hotel after

dinner we went straight to this karaoke

spot where i left at around midnight i

was feeling super hungry again so i went

to the only spot that was open subway i

also had to pack all of my clothes since

i was flying back home the next day so i

didn't get to go to bed until after 1am

but i had a meeting that started at

exactly 8am so i woke up in time to get

to the office and then i had two more

meetings my last meeting was the most

important one of the week with high

level client executives in it it ended

at 1 pm and my flight left at 2 40 so i

hopped into an uber to the airport right

after that meeting was over i got to the

airport with 30 minutes left until

boarding so i decided to hit up the

lounge to fill up on some free food and

got some emails out as we were getting

ready for takeoff i played a quick game

of 2048 which i hadn't done since high

school once we were flying i was able to

get through a decent amount of work i

finished up a few things for the client

and even did some things for

incomeoveroutcome.com

before i knew it the sun had set and i

could see the manhattan skyline out of

my window

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i finished up my work in the uber on the

way back home and finally got home at

around 6 30. the next day i just worked

from home i had no client meetings or

anything so it was just heads down

getting actual work done which was nice

i was able to log off a bit early and

then hit the gym since i didn't get to

go the whole week i was in chicago as

you can tell traveling weeks can be

pretty packed i used to do this every

single week but luckily for the past

year i've been able to work from home

overall this week i worked over 50 hours

and spent another eight hours traveling

consulting can be super demanding and

it's most definitely a work hard play

hard type environment but it can be

really rewarding because you're

surrounded by super smart people and you

learn so much hopefully this video gave

you a bit of a better idea what

consulting is like if it did make sure

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next time but until then peace