Why I Left Engineering for Consulting at McKinsey

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[dacioferreira]

Cool, I'll provide some feedback. However, I hope it serves as just another perspective. Working as an engineer is spectacular. You were in a cutting-edge field—batteries. It seems to me that you managed and performed your job very well. Working in manufacturing is incredible and extremely important both for the economy and professionally. In this field, you need to be highly skilled and productive.

As a mechanical engineer working in production, you could transition into various sectors like aerospace, automotive, or semiconductors because you have the education and hands-on experience in manufacturing. Now, in consulting, you lose that. You become a bureaucrat, leaving the industrial field to enter the services sector.

Working in consulting is exhausting—not because the work itself is as challenging as in the industrial field, but because they demand that from you. Consulting, and the financial sector in general, doesn’t have much real productivity and doesn’t contribute to the economy as meaningfully as industry does.

Nevertheless, I hope your career is very successful, and I wish you the best. I’ll also remain a member of your channel.

[vlsipathways]

Great video - how exactly did you switch from engineering to consulting? Most people say get an MBA, which seems like a huge investment. I've been working in engineering for 5 years and have some expertise, is there a way I can leverage that? Ideally, I would like to build upon what I have already done as an engineer.