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I use to be a consultant as an engineer and as a project manager. I will say that about 10% of consultants are worth their pay...they rest are like someone stated...overly confident of their talent. Maybe that's me too, but boy were there some dip*****s in that arena. I was always careful to provide my clients with the best work so as to not be labeled that consultant who wasn't worth a damn. Prior to being a consultant I had to clean up work that was left behind by consultants....it left a very bad taste in my mouth. That made me swear to myself I would never be one of those.
Still, sometimes budget, timeline and available supporting talent can make a project less than perfect no matter how hard I tried. Clients can make it even harder to turn out good projects. The ones that were knowledgeable were great to work with, but there are lots of clients that just made things messy with their lack of understanding of technical and logistic problems, leading to silly demands that ultimately ended up wioth a Rube Goldberg-esque solution. It's worst when the clients have teams of people sticking their noses into the project who aren't technically familiar with their desired solution. And their project was always the most important project so the most minor things HAD to be done...even at midnight on a Saturday...regardless of the impact on the big picture.
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