Project Management / Consultant(SAP FICO)?

Question

I have two oportunities. I am an SAP Finance Consultant. I am Finance professional and a Team lead in an MNC. I can be in people management / Project Managent or I can be a Consultant in SAP FICO. I have required experience and skill to become a consultant. My colleagues dont encourage me to get into consulting role. From my heart I want to be a consultant. Please share your views and provide guidance.

Answer 1

I've known lots of consultants...many of which were independent consultants. All of them, without exception, ended up working for a company. The major reasons for leaving the consulting business were job security and healthcare benefits.

I personally worked as a consultant, with a firm, for 12 years. The benefits were diversity in the work and the ability to observe what the companies/agencies I did work for were doing. The downsides were frequent travel and over nighters in motels/hotels away from the family.

And, to a point, the pay was not that good either. I doubled my salary when I went to work for a major aerospace company. On top of that, the healthcare benefits were way better.

Many companies currently use SAP. Why not take advantage of your vantage point and pick out a good one to work for? That's what I'd do in your shoes.