Patricia Hewitt, a former head of research at Accenture (then called Andersen Consulting) was health secretary in 2005-07; David Blunkett got a consultancy job when he resigned as work and pensions secretary in disgrace.Consultants are nothing if not ingenious in getting their feet on the fender.
He stopped after he got a job at a major bookstore as a night-time accountant and head cashier paying just $9 an hour but with good health benefits, and is now getting a human resources consultancy practice off the ground.
So he got himself a consultancy and failed at that.
"It's not as simple as pressing a button and getting a product," said Phil Reeves, managing director of 3D printing consultancy Econolyst.
Emerson Electric Charles Knightht got a 15-year consultancy deal where he has to work just one month out of the year.
IBM : Lou Gerstner got a 10-year consultancy contract worth up to $2 million annually, plus expenses and full use of IBM facilities and services, such as office, cars, aircraft and financial planning.
Fiona Allen, 50, head of human resources for a consultancy group, got a parking ticket in a council car park in Milton Keynes.
Western screenwriting guru Syd Field gets a credit for story consultancy, but the film is still very much structured according to Indian traditions.
So following her philosophy that "you must do what you think you are best suited for," and her belief that a physics degree is a positive asset for very many careers because it teaches you that "there are no problems, only solutions," she pursued a course in industrial quality management, and then got a job with management consultancy firm Anderson Consulting (now Accenture).
Students also get a chance to provide consultancy to various companies and get paid.
