[jaydub]

Well, first off. If you passed up a several hundred thousand per year opportunity for a 75K per year one, it was a mistake. I'm assuming you are using a rational definition of several; eg greater than a few and thus 400-600K+. If you truly had such a choice, which incidentally I highly doubt, you [censored] up. I hope you see why and if not I can elaborate.

Second, you appear to want to get some experience is business consulting, great, it's a wonderful line of work. As you have found out, when getting started in it, you get the [censored] work. Common sense. Decide if that [censored] work will help you learn valuable skills needed to move up, if not, assess your other parallel choices. It sounds like you view the next year as a waste of time so you should probably assess other opportunities and then speak to your management. Be warned, entry level employees in this line of work tend to be rather dispensible and companies focus heavily on new grads from tier 1 schools.