system
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human
ELI5: What is exactly meant when someone says they are a "consultant"?

I often meet people my age (mid/late twenties) who work in "consulting"...usually a male who majored in something like business or finance in college, likes to wear suits out to the bar, we all know someone like this.  
Whenever I ask for an explanation of what they actually do, the typical answer includes a lot of words like "synergy" and "facilitating" and "networking between networks" and "accelerating profits", but they can never qualify any of those fancy terms in a "what do you do when you go into work on an average day" kind of way.  

So what do consultants actually *do*?
gpt
Typically, they look at a specific area of how a company works. They identify what the company is doing right or wrong in that area. Then they write a long report with their findings, and charge the company lots of money.