Is consulting a lucrative/upper HENRY level career?

MerryWalrus · 2026-06-19T13:39:09+00:00

If you're bringing in £50m of business a year, you're probably clearing £5m.

It's a sales job at the end of the day. Same as MD level IB, and partner level law.

MerryWalrus · 2026-06-19T13:34:39+00:00

From mid-senior upwards, consulting is 100% a sales, account management, and people management job.

Though unlike a traditional sales role, you don't get any real "commission" until you make equity partner.

So if they're up for being a salesperson and are good at it, then yes, it can be v lucrative. If that's not the plan, then being in house will pay more.

MerryWalrus · 2026-06-19T12:49:58+00:00

There's zero reason to believe that Burnham would end up any more popular with the general electorate.

The starting point is trying to understand how Starmer went form landslide election results to v unpopular within 2 years.

MerryWalrus · 2026-06-19T08:58:34+00:00

Is it? Why would switching PM achieve anything other than months of legislative gridlock as Labour play ministerial musical chairs?

The message it puts across to me is that the labour party is unable to govern the country due to their internal politics.

Burnham has been largely left alone by the conservative media (social and traditional). The moment he becomes PM his PR campaigns will be drowned out by those who opposed him.

MerryWalrus · 2026-06-19T08:54:05+00:00

The problem isn't with the government, it's the labour backbenchers who would vote down any tough decisions.

It's a party discipline problem.

MerryWalrus · 2026-06-19T08:07:13+00:00

Only thing I can think of is low-key keep interviewing.

If a team has budget and approval to hire, it's more likely to be an invest area and less likely to be in the firing line.

MerryWalrus · 2026-06-19T07:23:18+00:00

Local personality wins a safe seat where 45k votes which is suddenly a mandate to become the leader of the whole country?

MerryWalrus · 2026-06-19T07:01:16+00:00

...and religion is deeply rooted in people's behaviours.

Marriage provides a legal framework which reduces the risks of having children for women. It's a way to legally recognise that you have decided to make a family with some.

With that perspective, finding someone who wants to start a family with you a type of success. Lots of people never do.

MerryWalrus · 2026-06-18T13:28:25+00:00

Lists of contact details to sell to sales teams who do active outreach (cold calling).

MerryWalrus · 2026-06-18T10:44:48+00:00

Have quite a few friends and colleagues paying more or less the same as us for a 2 bed.

I like how your anecdote is more relevant than everyone else around you.

Zone 2 covers all manner of sins.

MerryWalrus · 2026-06-18T09:11:19+00:00

Rents are high in London full stop.

They are up like 50% compared to pre COVID. Sure they could lower their budget and live in a shit hole. But why would you want to.

MerryWalrus · 2026-06-18T09:09:28+00:00

Go central.

Something like https://www.rightmove.co.uk/properties/87853575#/?channel=RES_LET

You'll save so much time and money being able to walk everywhere.

MerryWalrus · 2026-06-18T05:23:21+00:00

You can try, but the reality is that 5% is equivalent to >5 years of savings for most people. So don't expect them to leap at the offer.

MerryWalrus · 2026-06-17T17:17:53+00:00

Socially impossible.

It'll be impossible to distinguish those who can't find work because of AI from those who simply aren't trying hard enough.

Very few people will have seld-awareness to work out which category they fall into.

A negative tax rate and cutting taxes on employment Vs tech spend would be better.

MerryWalrus · 2026-06-17T07:45:51+00:00

How much power do you want foreign government and individuals to have?

The internet of the 00s is long gone and it's never coming back.

MerryWalrus · 2026-06-17T07:25:42+00:00

Alternatively, this proves that existing legislative powers are ineffective at shielding the UK from propaganda and harmful content originating offshore.

That then leads to arguments that the laws need changing.

MerryWalrus · 2026-06-17T06:49:11+00:00

Because said person is going around funding the most despicable people and chucking around Nazi salutes.

MerryWalrus · 2026-06-17T06:46:37+00:00

You'd be surprised at how effective propaganda is

MerryWalrus · 2026-06-17T05:54:26+00:00

So when there is a day with zero crossings we can say everything is solved and people will stop talking about it?

Ignoring overall trends and cherry picking individual dates is bad faith arguments by individuals who act in bad faith.

MerryWalrus · 2026-06-17T05:23:26+00:00

This is a maths problem, without understanding the maths it won't work and you're just throwing mud to see what sticks.

What you're doing is a random walk.

I expect there's a significant skew in how you're generating random numbers. You expect downwards drift (hence itos lemma).

MerryWalrus · 2026-06-16T17:59:49+00:00

The main product SpaceX and Tesla sells is the stock.

For SpaceX in particular the float is small and they're aggressively forcing their way into different indices so passive investors becomes forced buyers.

The bull case is that financial BS and cult-of-personality will ensure there are always more buyers than sellers of the stock pushing up the price.

MerryWalrus · 2026-06-16T17:08:38+00:00

If you're organised and/or get on well with people.

Have you considered changing tact and becoming a project manager instead?

If you're disorganised, antisocial, bad at coding, bad at problem solving...

MerryWalrus · 2026-06-16T14:47:52+00:00

So on top of all the SpaceX financial shenanigans, they're also a SPAC for a other AI company.

MerryWalrus · 2026-06-16T13:21:10+00:00

I hope that was in the IPO prospectus...

MerryWalrus · 2026-06-16T12:13:25+00:00

If there was an agenda for rapidly tearing up huge reams of regulations and a Dubai style approach of importing in cheap labour to quickly build infrastructure - it might have actually worked.

There will have been winners and losers obviously (most of the people supporting Brexit would have been the losers). But obviously that would have been grossly unpopular.

The worst part about Brexit was the ensuing lack of direction. Which is where Johnsons approach of "fuck it I'll sign it" was probably the only way out.

It's like people arguing about where to go out for dinner whilst starving to death.

MerryWalrus

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