This is the last module, and in some ways it is the question underneath all the others. Every door in Module 1, every trajectory stage in Module 2, every rate in Module 3, eventually feeds into a single decision you will revisit multiple times across your career: should you be staff, an independent consultant, or something in between, and when.
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