Once again: speaking as a consultant myself, and working in a field among many competing consultancies: Patrick's consulting experience is not at all atypical. Patrick was not a top-tier consultant, nor were his outcomes. People start consultancies and do much, much better than he did, or than I did. You seem to imply that you haven't, but I'm not sure why that's something you want to keep highlighting.

(I edited this comment to remove a bit of vitriol from the top, and to add the response to this anonymous commenter's claim that Patrick's experience is atypical, before which mine was a one-line comment.)