Consulting takes time and saps your focus, but it also feels incredible to work for 1 day and make enough to pay rent for a month. When you're not stressing about whether you'll be able to make rent this month, you may find your productivity increase tremendously.
I agree wholeheartedly. Consulting comprehensively took my focus off new product dev the last three months, but it underwrote a huge QOL improvement (one month of time off with family) and there is major, major stress relief about not being five figures in the hole until October. Market seasonality is a pain, by the way.
