Good Day Everyone,
I started working as a IT consultant for a local firm at the beginning of the year. My firm handles IT for small to medium size business ranging from 1 to 75 computers. I love the job with one caveat. I feel like I am being worked to death.
Since this is my first IT consultant job and have been a network administrator on and off for about 10 years. I know my stuff. With that said. I am looking for perspective from fellow IT Consultants working for IT firms.
My question is: What is the average amount of billable hours one works? I work on average 35-45 billable hours a week. Resulting in about a 90% of my time each week billable. This leaves me very little time to plan, research, and do other administrative duties. Is this typically? I pride myself in hard work but I seriously feel I am shouldering the workload for my firm. I constantly am the top producer for my firm each month. Not because I want to but myself I have over 15 contract and hourly clients all asking for numerous IT requests, maintenance and support. Most of the time there is to much work and not enough me.
Am I whining or is this just insane?