A young consultant"s life is tiring. A 41 week starts before dawn on Monday, with a rush to the airport and a flight to 42 the client is based. He can 43 to stay in hotels at least three nights a week, gorging on minibar peanuts and gloomily texting a(n) 44 lover. "It"s quite 45 to spend a year living out of a suitcase," sighs one London-based consultant.So the job 46 "insecure overachievers"— a phrase 47 used in the industry—"who are always worried that they haven"t done enough work," jokes a consultant. Some 60-65% of consultants are recent college-leavers. Most 48 within a few years and take more settled jobs elsewhere in the business world, 49 their experience and 50 allow them to slot in several levels 51 their less-travelled counterparts.The elite consultancies have offices in big cities, which is where 52 young people want to live. The best-paid jobs are in places 53 London and New York. Such cities are also where the culture and dating 54 are richest.Such attitudes are frustrating for firms in Portsmouth or Peoria. 55 consultancies benefit from it. They 56 bright young things in the metropolis and then hire out their brains to firms in the sticks. This is one 57 why consultants have to travel so much.The system 58 , more or less, for everyone. Firms in the provinces get to borrow talent they could not 59 hire. And young consultants get to experience life in the real world before returning to the capital to party with their friends at the weekend. They have it all, 60 enough sleep.

A. frustrated
B. curious
C. ambitious
D. jobless