# What were you THINKING? **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [October 13, 2023, 7:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-were-you-thinking/991532 "2023-10-13T19:36:53Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 5794
**Author:** ![puzzlegal](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/puzzlegal/32/3827_2.png) [@puzzlegal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/puzzlegal)\ **Post date:** [October 26, 2025, 5:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-were-you-thinking/991532/5794 "2025-10-26T17:59:23Z")
A lot of posts about management consulting, along with all the requests to split them off, have been moved to their own thread. > [@Management consulting digression and discussion from the What were you thinking thread](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/management-consulting-digression-and-discussion-from-the-what-were-you-thinking-thread/1024308): > > You may have no idea who I am but I have been a big fan of your posts for twenty something years mainly because we are so different. We both got engineering degrees and you are just a few years younger than I am. I was a hippie deadhead in college and you were one of those frat boys that I had nothing but contempt for but I hung out with a few of them. The engineering program where I went to school were mostly insufferable geeks so the social people (Greeks system, hippies, athletes) studied to… --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-were-you-thinking/991532)._