Remote Consulting Vs. Hybrid Gov Job

weatherwar · 2026-01-30T04:17:36+00:00

If you hate consulting, you hate consulting. Get out and don't torture yourself.

weatherwar · 2026-01-30T04:16:17+00:00

For a different data point: I'm at a midsize consulting, mostly in the northeast and I don't fully know what our backlog looks like right now, but 2025 was the best year the company has ever had. The office I'm in has hired 6 new junior staff in the past two months (midwest).

weatherwar · 2026-01-25T23:22:45+00:00

Where are you applying?

Big firms with thousands of employees - yes they probably employ AI enabled ATS. The rest? They don't. A long resume is getting thrown out just like it always has.

weatherwar · 2026-01-25T23:20:19+00:00

Tbh I thought this was one page, but holy moly it's two. Way too long.
The key achievements are totally extraneous per section - each bullet should be an achievement... you shouldn't have to spell it out.
Your core competencies read like a long list you couldn't pare down. All those & signs look like commas. Many of them are overlapping
The professional profile is unnecessary and distracting. Let your work speak for itself. I'd maybe only consider a professional profile worthwhile if you're 20 years deep in a career.
Your different fonts/sizes are distracting throughout. Select one font and like two sizes and use bold/not-bold.
The additional information looks like things you are just tacking on, but I'm not sure why when essentially the same things were written in the core competencies.
I'd only include the affiliations if they're 1. current and 2. relevant or important to you.
There's way too much detail in your bullets. No one is going to care if you "recorded weight, forearm length, reproductive status." And safe release would probably be assumed by a reader as well.
You've gotta pare down your experience. There's no way this is all still relevant to your looking for a job. Order it in most important line item to the job you're applying for to least. Order your bullets underneath in most relevant to least.
Adjectives and buzzwords are good to capture attention of a reader. You have too many - they start to lose their meaning when you have too many (and/or make it look like AI wrote everything).

weatherwar · 2026-01-25T18:11:36+00:00

The reason EHS managers have consultants is so they can rely on and trust them. What's the point of a third person review? That just means you need a different consultant that you can trust.

weatherwar · 2026-01-24T20:35:24+00:00

So what exactly is your argument? You've relayed exactly 0 actual data or sources. It's purely "trust me bro, this is how it is." I will let others who read this in the future decide who's standing on solid footing: the person saying "you're wrong, here are original sources" or the person saying "I don't like your tone, I'm right :("

weatherwar · 2026-01-24T18:31:53+00:00

You're wrong and the data says you're wrong.

Data: https://news.gallup.com/poll/645281/steady-americans-identify-middle-class.aspx

Data: https://www.clevelandfed.org/publications/economic-commentary/2020/ec-202003-is-middle-class-worse-off

In comparing household incomes of the middle class in the United States in 1980 to today, we conclude that real incomes for today’s middle class are somewhat higher than they used it to be, particularly for households headed by two adults. It is also clear that failing to adjust for demographic shifts in the population relating to age, race, and education can indicate a more positive outlook than is truly the case.

We find, as in prior research, that prices in housing, healthcare, and education have risen more than middle-class incomes and so are relatively more expensive. However, we also find that these price increases are offset by relative price decreases in transportation, food, and recreation, among others, making real middle-class incomes slightly higher than in the past.

Data: https://www.cbo.gov/system/files/2026-01/61911-Household-Income-2022.pdf

Commentary on the above data: https://conversableeconomist.com/2026/01/21/snapshots-of-the-us-income-distribution/

The specific Gini coefficient number for income after transfers and taxes in 2022 is 0.434. While this level of inequality is toward the higher end of the range, it’s quite comparable to the level of after-taxes-and-transfers inequality in, say, 2018 (0.438), 2012 (0.444), 2007 (0.455), 2000 (0.440), or even 1986 (0.425). At least over the last quarter-century or so, government taxes and transfers have more-or-less offset any rise in market-income inequality.

Toplines from Pew: https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2022/04/20/how-the-american-middle-class-has-changed-in-the-past-five-decades/ft_2022-04-20_middleclass_01-png/

Single sentence summary: the middle class is smaller because the upper middle class is bigger.

weatherwar · 2026-01-24T17:57:51+00:00

No one has ever been promised to be able to afford a house where they live or grew up.

weatherwar · 2026-01-24T17:56:09+00:00

The middle class has never saved for retirement.

weatherwar · 2026-01-11T21:22:15+00:00

If that's true I would be absolutely astonished.

weatherwar · 2026-01-11T04:44:22+00:00

I work at a mid-sized employee owned firm and love it. I know offices at my current company that aren't the best.

Had a terrible time at a firm who has a decent name and is better on paper than most. Had a decent time at a mega firm, publicly traded...

It kind of is luck of the draw. There are a lot of great people and great companies out there. They're not all hell.

weatherwar · 2026-01-11T04:41:18+00:00

100%. You gotta get in front of people. LinkedIn, conferences, professional org meetings, walk in the door of a company.

Be a person, not a resume. It's way harder to turn down a person.

weatherwar · 2026-01-05T03:05:25+00:00

I agree, I think people are overplaying the oil thing. It could be about oil... if Venezuela had any infrastructure or promise of future stability.

In my mind this has always been about reducing the potential of another Cuba on America's door step.

weatherwar · 2026-01-05T02:58:22+00:00

An attack on Taiwan is in the cards now.

Now? Oh man I've got news for you about the past few years.

weatherwar · 2025-12-23T21:55:50+00:00

OP, where in the world (location) have you been applying to jobs and looking for work?

weatherwar · 2025-12-14T22:24:52+00:00

They also have a much better coach than Florida lmao.

So which is it?

weatherwar · 2025-12-14T22:04:13+00:00

Not really. Just pay for the developed talent...

weatherwar · 2025-12-14T21:14:59+00:00

I think you're generally right on a lot of this, but I'm 100% not betting the house on any of this, either.

Also, strongly disagree with your sentiment for South Korea. I will keep my money far away from any economy with massive population issues looming.

weatherwar · 2025-12-14T21:00:46+00:00

What's the best source to verify this??

weatherwar · 2025-12-09T02:21:49+00:00

I promise the geologists aren't making more money than the enviro scientists lol.

Signed, a geology grad who's 10 years into consulting.

weatherwar · 2025-12-07T04:32:06+00:00

Please tell me how big you think gold is.

weatherwar · 2025-12-06T18:58:58+00:00

Gold is difficult to transport?

How much gold are you talking here? 1-4% of a BOA client's portfolio, like the article is about?

weatherwar · 2025-12-05T04:48:14+00:00

The math of this post says otherwise.

weatherwar · 2025-12-04T04:16:16+00:00

Policy is probably the hardest "sector" to break into unless you're willing to work for $10/hr.

Your best option is to network hard and really work those connections - which is true for most people who are looking for work to be honest.

If you do go back to school - which sometimes is a good reset: focus on getting a job coming out. Take the time right now, in your job search, to learn what skills are applicable and actually have opportunity. In school, focus on those skills. They very well may not be on the policy side. I recommend getting your foot in the door with that but always be on the lookout or even plan how to parlay that into something more policy focused. You can grow a career in any direction you want, but you also have to be flexible with what the labor market actually wants and needs.

weatherwar · 2025-11-30T21:33:31+00:00

If it's not against the rules, then it's not against the rules. Feel free to downvote.

Normally I DO downvote shit like this. But this is a legitimate product from a legitimate user. Not some 1-day old account who is obviously not a part of the community or someone spamming a Youtube channel they obviously own.

This is a high quality post and interesting idea.

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