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good morning i

actually just woke up

this is real i told myself i would film

today from the very beginning

this is a day in the life of a

consultant

i look um

like i typically wake up five to

ten minutes before my first zoo meeting

if i'm working from home obviously but

there's kind of a reason for that i'll

tell you in a sec i might go into the

office a little bit later we'll see

that'll be a game time decision

but first let's go to my desk

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all right the very first thing i do is

open my laptop and check my email to see

if there's anything that i have to tend

to or review before my first meeting

how's my posture

after i check my email i hop on my very

first zoom call of the day with my team

for this particular project the main

team is myself and three others so not

too big

okay part of the reason i feel like i've

rejected by myself now part of the

reason i wake up five to ten minutes

before my zoom call is because my first

call at least for this project is always

anywhere from five to 15 minutes like

it's usually quite short because it's

just my team and i going over the

to-do's for the day it's like low stakes

in that sense you know it's not like

it's a client presentation first thing

in the morning if it's one of the

exceptions where i do have you know a

big important meeting first thing in the

morning of course i wake up

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of course i wake up a little bit more in

advance to just you know get my brain

alive and stuff to get my brain alive

and stuff

clearly i wasn't that awake but for

these little meetings in the morning

usually i'm pretty okay to just wake up

a few minutes before check my email make

sure i didn't miss anything huge and

then jump right into the call the

cameras are off too that's part of why

i'm still in my pjs all right finished

that call though and made a couple edits

to some slides just took about 10

minutes and then normally unless i have

any immediate to-do's now is the time

when i'll go to the bathroom brush my

teeth make my coffee

and then come back and do whatever else

i got to do so

let's do that and one of my favorite

things to do

almost first thing in the morning after

that first little zoom call i do is this

mtv welcome to billionaires row oh man

it's not really in the frame but when i

say welcome to billionaires row that's

what i mean so yeah i am blessed with

that view

every single day for those who don't

know or maybe you think you don't know

but you actually do you've seen the

apartment videos online it's known as

billionaires rome it's where the

billionaires as the name suggests live

along central park

i said it before and i'll say it again

life moves pretty fast

it's not about personality matrix and

charts it's all about the bumps in your

heart

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and now i'm going to use the toilet

you guys know how my best behavior for

this video if i'm making my bed i'm not

like fully making it i'm just

making it look all right

i'm not tucking anything

best believe that

i'm just gonna put the blanket

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maybe i should do that every day that

took me like one second and i like how

it looks

but it's also good because then you

don't feel as like inclined to get back

in bed i feel like

i'm good on like immediate to do through

the morning i already did like a little

bit of work to make the updates i needed

so now i'm gonna put in my contacts so i

can see get some coffee and some

breakfast

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all right since i'm filming i'm gonna

look a little nicer today

you can't stop me

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yes sunscreen even in the winter

especially me like i actually have the

privilege of living in new york and

sitting in front of windows all day

which is not the case for a lot of new

york apartments so all the more reason

for some sunscreen plus this one smells

really good like the beach

i use it as my moisturizer in the

morning too the trick is to find one

that you can just replace as your

moisturizer for the morning and it

doesn't feel like a chore to put on your

sunscreen it just feels like something

you would do anyway

let's do a little bit of makey

makey

i should tell my roommate if she hears

me saying dumb

to myself it's because i'm filming

a youtube video

for the men out there watching do you

know what this is comment your best

guess down below i've said this in past

videos but i feel like getting a little

more put together really helps me feel

more productive throughout the day so

i'd recommend that for anyone whether

that just means putting on a little

makeup or simply getting out of your

pajamas i think it makes a difference

so unfortunate for me i ran out of

coffee like coffee grounds normally i

just make my coffee in the kitchen

which means we will go downstairs to

actually buy one which will be a nice

little treat because they have really

good coffee downstairs

excellent

all right i put on a normal shirt

so wearing my sweatpants but that's fine

with me and let's go get some coffee and

then we'll actually come back and talk

about some work stuff so

don't worry it will be some of that

fit check

i actually didn't even check the weather

downstairs but i assume this will do all

right yeah it's cold but not that cold

can i please do a large latte

thank you

got my coffee and back up to my room

make a little food

and then we'll talk about work

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you can see why i got the glass desk so

you don't lose any of that view and

we'll move this trash can for the sake

of the video if you can see i always do

something easy just a bowl of chobani

yogurt i always try to do something with

a decent amount of protein in it then i

do a full banana and then just a healthy

little portion of granola it's filling

it's good and easy

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this is taylor working from home that is

a weird lighting see i really want to do

it from this standpoint so that way you

can see

that but i just

yeah the exposure is not going to work

so as much as i like that view i think

we should do it this way okay hello

again it's taylor okay so i did promise

we would talk about work welcome to my

first day in the life as a consultant

for those who don't know i am a

management consultant working and living

here in new york city and a management

consultant i'll put up a definition here

and i'm more on the strategy side of

things so i consult for businesses and

that's what i do for a living

for a living sounds very serious this is

my first job out of college but it's

what i'm doing right now so you guys

have been asking for this video for a

while totally understandable because i

put out that why consulting video geez

like eight nine months ago now and

anyway i've been at the job for eight

months it's crazy so first reason i

haven't made this video yet is because i

wanted that time i wanted a few months

at least i've experienced under my belt

before talking about it and then the

second main reason is and this isn't a

knock on my job it's just the nature of

consulting i guess is that my work day

really just consists of me sitting in

front of my computer for 12 hours

sometimes less lately it's been less but

you know that's not terribly interesting

just to watch me do that however i will

try to my hair looks shiny in this light

but i will try to make it as interesting

as possible and tell you as much as i

can without spilling the confidential

juice and today i actually will be going

into the office later which will make it

even more interesting we'll see how much

i can film in the office probably not

too much but at least i can show you the

view and then later tonight i have a

fancy team dinner which will be nice so

anyway we do actually have a fairly

eventful day okay we could try now this

angle's not bad you can kind of see the

buildings and you can see baby

that's a plus so just to talk a little

bit about i guess the cadence of my

mornings and my meetings and how that

goes on the project i'm on right now

which i've been on for almost three

months

that's a while at least for me though

it's a while because i've been at the

job for eight months so if you do the

math

and the way that it usually goes for us

from like a meetings perspective again

we have that first one in the morning

where we go over to dues for the day

it's me and the rest of my team talk

about who's responsible for what what we

accomplished the night before things

like that like the level set for each

morning which is nice to have and then

throughout the day we're kind of you

know it could be a mixture of being on

your own or working very much together

with someone else so anyway like i said

i'm going into the office later today

and i guess one thing i could talk about

are the pros and cons of working from

home or working from the office because

there are major ones for both like some

that are very obvious of course and then

other ones that i just didn't really

anticipate before i started my job one

major probe working from home is the

whole i woke up five minutes before my

first zoom call depending on where you

live you're gonna have some kind of

commute even if you're walking distance

to your office you still need to wake up

you know to depending on what you do to

get ready to eat maybe to get a coffee

to get dressed and then to walk to work

even again if it's right across the

street you still there's some commute

time for me i lose about an hour of

sleep in the morning if i go into the

office first thing and for me who takes

my sleep very seriously that's not great

however once i am in the office if i go

in with say midday or even if i do end

up going in the morning and i'm just

able to make it work then a major pro is

obviously for me getting to see people

even if you're not like a huge extrovert

there is something to be said for being

around people even if it's people you

don't necessarily know just getting to

you know smile at people in the hallway

and have these little conversations by

the coffee pot what is that called it's

like water cooler talk right anyway you

know what i mean like just those little

informal things that makes a big

difference in my day i just you know i

like being around people so that is huge

at the same time i feel like i'm just

going like on the other hand on the

other hand but you know pros and cons

at the same time if i'm in the office

and it's a super busy day for my project

then i don't really get to reap those

benefits of like walking around and

seeing people because i'm just at one of

the desks in the office doing work next

major pro of working from home is when i

have five free minutes to myself i can

do this

i don't even mean take a nap just

getting to be horizontal for like a few

minutes every day

is very nice can't do that at work next

major pro of working from home between

you and me if i have five minutes free i

can work on

youtube and i never get enough time

during a workday to actually get to like

film a full-on video or write a whole

script besides i guess right now i am

technically filming a little bit but i

just mean i can have time to like write

down ideas and plan stuff out and just

get a little inspired with my own

personal business if you will and not

just have like my work life and relaxing

so it's nice to be able to get motivated

and inspired on something that i

do by myself another major pro and con

part of this discussion would be like

where you're more productive and i would

say it can go either way for me in terms

of when you're having a busy day working

with your team it definitely is

preferable to be in person i mean you

can just take your laptop and show it to

your manager or to the other consultant

and say like how does this look to you

because that like one-on-one actual

facetime is just so much faster and more

efficient than doing it over zoom but it

depends on the kind of work that you

have to do so for that definitely

preferable to be in person but if you

just have a slide where you have to make

a couple different changes or it's

something a little bit more independent

sometimes that can be just as

efficiently done overzoom in my opinion

sorry i'm just kind of rambling but

these are my thoughts and this goes for

most jobs let me know in the comments

down below if you work from home now and

you used to work a lot more in the

office and just kind of how the dynamic

has changed for you in that way are you

relating to some of the things i'm

saying probably

okie dokie after that little chat i got

to working on some more tasks for the

day so this whole day that i'm filming

is december 14th and if you guys saw my

last video you would know that i was

actually at home in los angeles for the

holidays in early december and i was

planning on staying there until the new

year however my team and i decided to

co-locate one last time this year

meaning we would all fly to new york to

be in the same city work together in

person and have some fun team events so

that's why i'm here back in new york

just for one week quick little trip but

it was nice to see my team and a couple

friends around the holiday season it

ended up being a hybrid model meaning i

worked from home for most of the week

even though the plan was to be in the

office every day because with the

variant and spike in cases in new york

city people were being extra cautious

this week

the first thing i had to do was update a

slide deck that we were presenting to

the client the following day plus and

putting some new data into our excel

tracker i ended up working closely with

the other consultant on my project which

i really enjoyed because he and i ended

up becoming good friends definitely a

perk of the job if you like working with

other people

then i hopped on a few zoom calls with

my team where we debriefed some client

calls that we had earlier in the day it

was dramatic

good times yeah i'll clean up those

notes and get them over and then we kept

on working for a while

i relaxed a bit off camera ate a snacky

poo and then headed into the office

on my way to the office vlogging in

public is weird but whatever i'm on my

way so i didn't really get footage of me

working in the office but i did take

this video of the office view at sunset

not a bad view to see the empire state

building world trade center statue of

liberty and wait for it

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the chrysler building all in the same

view

for dinner we are serving chowder with

our finest maine lobsters for the entree

a lovely eight ounce filet mignon steak

with some thick bernay sauce on top my

favorite

and for dessert a tick tock famous

ginormous chocolate cake plus a

cheesecake on the side

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hello are you back in my room

that's me

my team dinner was delicious it was

actually kind of my going away team

dinner a little bit because i'm rolling

off this project on friday which is

three days from now so it was nice to

have like one final event i guess with

my team had a nice filet mignon and some

cheesecake and a bottle of wine it was

really good when i was in the office i

mainly hung out with my team it was a

really light day which you know maybe

you guys want to see me have a heavy day

but if you saw that literally that's

just me in front of my computer so

that's no fun at least today i had like

a mix of working from home doing some

slides going into the office getting a

teeny tiny video from the office having

a team dinner so at least it was

eventful for me

as much as i wanted to bring you guys

along all of it obviously it's kind of

hard to show every aspect so that was my

day i'll get better at this this is my

very first one my very first day in the

life of a consultant in new york city

but let me know what you guys would want

to see out of these videos in the future

i'm sure i will do plenty of them

because this channel is about my life

and a lot of my life is work at least

hour-wise not like validation-wise

that's a whole other topic anyway i'll

see you guys very soon thank you for

watching and please give this video a

thumbs up helps my channel all right see

you soon bye

and merry chrysler

bye

a little nasally sorry

oh my little plants they're so cute

aren't they cute do you like them can

you see my finger there they are okay

i'll

pull my neck

and then we'll come back and actually do

work stuff don't worry this isn't just

like a

i don't know what that was

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Key Vocabulary

Vocabulary	Meanings
consultant /kənˈsʌltənt/ B1	noun - a person who provides professional advice or services in a particular field
project /ˈprɒdʒekt/ A2	noun - a planned piece of work or activity
meeting /ˈmiːtɪŋ/ A1	noun - an assembly of people for a particular purpose
review /rɪˈvjuː/ A2	verb - to examine or assess something again
email /ˈiːmeɪl/ A1	noun - a message sent over the internet
team /tiːm/ A1	noun - a group of people working together
productive /prəˈdʌktɪv/ B1	adjective - achieving a significant amount or result
strategy /ˈstrætɪdʒi/ B2	noun - a plan of action designed to achieve a long-term goal
efficient /ɪˈfɪʃənt/ B1	adjective - performing or functioning in the best possible manner with the least waste of time and effort
independent /ˌɪndɪˈpɛndənt/ B1	adjective - free from outside control; not depending on another for support
commute /kəˈmjuːt/ B1	verb - to travel regularly between home and work
motivate /ˈməʊtɪveɪt/ B2	verb - to provide someone with a reason for acting in a certain way
perspective /pəˈspektɪv/ B2	noun - a particular way of considering something
prioritize /praɪˈɒrɪtaɪz/ B2	verb - to decide which tasks are most important and should be done first
flexible /ˈflekʃəbl/ B1	adjective - able to adapt or change easily
deadline /ˈdɛdlaɪn/ A2	noun - a time limit for completing a task