1) I like how great the benefits are, and how amenable my firm is to making sure that I don&#x27;t totally hate my life (crazy, inconsitent hours and a good work-life balance). But at the same time, I find the stability to be stifling - I&#x27;m not opposed to working 14 hours&#x2F;day if I know that I have a tight deadline coming up, but why do I have to sit at my desk to hit a 40 hour&#x2F;week deadline if I don&#x27;t have 40 hours of work to do?<p>2) I&#x27;m currently in a long-term project, and it&#x27;s the nature of my firm and the projects that my group has that you tend to stick to a project over a fairly &quot;long&quot; time period (1-2 years for consulting might as well be forever). I am doing a lot of self-education during the times during my 40 hours&#x2F;week that I don&#x27;t have anything to do, but even so, there&#x27;s only so much I can do. I&#x27;ve worked on harder projects that taught me more in internships. This is what I&#x27;m most dissatisfied with, but I don&#x27;t want to rock the boat because I want to remain in the good graces of higher-ups.<p>3-4) My current project is in a field that I have relatively little interest in, and I&#x27;ve found that a lot of the people I am working with want to be lifers - something I DO NOT want to do. I want a creative and diverse (in thought) group of people, and I tend to be in a stagnant place.<p>Like you say, &quot;working for consultants tends to be a great way to widen the opportuntity surface&quot;, but I haven&#x27;t seen that so far. It may be that I am in the wrong place in my firm, but as I&#x27;ve already said, I don&#x27;t want to rock the boat and possibly jeopardize the current stable state of affairs, which is significantly better than nothing.