You know it is time to get out of consulting when...

• You ask the waiter what the restaurant's core competencies are.
• You decide to re-org your family into a "team-based organization."
• You refer to dating as test marketing.
• You can spell "paradigm."
• You actually know what a paradigm is.
• You understand your airline's fare structure.
• You write executive summaries on your love letters.
• You think that it's actually efficient to write a ten page paper with six other people you don't know.
• You believe every company is "a traditional functional organization, with promotion based on tenure, but one that needs to change as it is facing ever increasing competition..."
• You believe that a company's problems are never caused by an "ineffective handling of an administrative situation."
• You believe you never have any problems in your life, just "issues" and "improvement opportunities."
• You know every single piece of clip art in PowerPoint.
• You calculate your own personal cost of capital.
• You explain to your bank manager that you prefer to think of yourself as "highly leveraged" as opposed to "in debt."
• You ask your bank manager if she has heard of "Modigliani-Miller," and then you ask her if she has a pizza so you can show her.
• You can explain to somebody the difference between "re-engineering," "down-sizing," "right-sizing," and "firing people's asses."
• You actually believe your explanations of the above.
• You start doing your kid's math equations in reverse Polish notation.
• You enjoy using an HP-12C.
• You refer to your previous life as "my sunk cost."
• Your three meals a day are a morning consumption function, a noontime consumption function, and an evening consumption function.
• You refer to your significant other as "my co-CEO."
• Your favorite stories begin "Bob Jones, VP of marketing, sat at his desk and stared out his window..."
• You like both types of sandwiches: ham and turkey.
• You believe CAPM is just as important as the Theory of Relativity.
• You believe CAPM.
• You start to feel sorry for Dilbert's boss.
• You believe the best tables and graphs take an hour to comprehend.
• You refer to divorce as "divestiture."
• Your favorite artist is the one who does the dot drawings for the Wall Street Journal.
• None of your favorite publications have cartoons.
• You account for your tuition as a capital expenditure instead of an expense.
• You insist that you do some more market research before you and your spouse produce another child.
• At your last family reunion, you wanted to have an emergency meeting about their brand equity.
• You always call your mechanic before you start your car to see if it will blow up given the day's weather conditions....and expect him to use a decision tree to work it out.
• You've decided the only way to afford a house is to call your fellow alumni and offer to name a room after them, if they'll help with the down payment.
• Your "deliverable" for Sunday evening is clean laundry and paid bills
• You use the term "value-added" without falling down laughing.
• You ask the car salesman if the car comes with a whiteboard and Internet connection.
• You give constructive feedback to your dog

An old list but with a few new entries from Tom Antion & Associates.