r/epicconsulting

Any advice for first time consultants? Either for me or generally. Curious how everyone adjusted to their first gig.

Some prompts:
- First week priorities?
- Relationship advice.
- Stories of your first assignments.
- How to hide that you are learning
- Re-acclimating back to Epic.
- Things new people should consider that they probably are not.

I’m starting as a Tapestry consultant today. No prior consulting experience. I was a software developer on Tapestry a few years ago and was a software developer somewhere else until 3 days ago.

Has anyone moved to a different state with a higher COL and put in a request for a COL pay adjustment? I’m considering leaving Louisiana (which is one of the lowest paid states) and relocating to Tampa Bay Area. Thanks!

Both Epic shops and allows Sanford to break into the Minneapolis market which has been their wet dream for years. Both Robbinsdale and Maple Grove are set to be acquired with special focus on Maple Grove since it's the real money maker with rapid real estate expansion. North has been aggressively acquiring land to turn Maple Grove's hospital into a campus and they already have a solid reputation as a birthing destination.

I just received a job offer for Managed Services. I have 2 certs and have been certified since 2018. I asked for $140k/yr. They offered me $129k/yr., as well as 5% bonus each year. Any idea on how I should negotiate? Chat says I should ask for $143k/yr. I don’t feel like that’s the right move.

Was bored today so I started playing around with a spare laptop that has Linux Mint loaded. I Wanted to see if I could make it a reasonable backup laptop for consulting work. So far no real issues; Outlook, Teams, Citrix, ect all work and Hyperspace had no issue.

So I got to wondering; has anyone ever run into a health system that uses Linux rather than Windows for user desktops?