Consulting for PhDs, Lawyers, & Doctors 2008

You’ve been in grad school studying the Fractional Quantum Hall Efect for the past six years and wondering just what else you could do besides turn into a clone of your adviser, ind a tenure track job, and move to a square state with no natural bodies of water. Or maybe your internship at that corporate law irm has made you reconsider long-term career options. Or perhaps you ind yourself practicing insurance-paperwork management rather than medicine. You’ve heard about consulting. In fact, the last ive people you networked with referred to themselves as consultants, but you’re not really sure what being a consultant means or why anyone would hire a PhD, JD, or MD to be one.