I guess only another consultant could understand this, but no matter how you slice it, $30K/week consulting rates will never translate into $1.5 million/year. You won't even get close, and you'll break your heart trying.
You can't bill the hours you spend finding clients or networking or redoing your website or waiting around through four months of utter doldrums before being overbooked and killing yourself to keep your promises.
Don't get me wrong, I love consulting and I've done a lot of it. But sometimes you just want solve problems and get predictable checks, even if your effective hourly rate works out lower.
When I pay my lawyer $300/hour for contract work, all I can think of is, "How does the poor guy make a living?" Because I've seen the grim reality of the math. My lawyer works damm hard for that nice office. At least patio11 had a weekly rate (or maybe a per diem), and not an hourly rate.
