Steve Jobs once told consultants: "You should do something."Justin Sullivan/GettySteve Jobs was not the biggest fan of consulting.Jobs once criticized consulting in a 1992 talk at MIT, where some consultants were present.He advised them to pursue jobs with which they'd have more ownership over their decisions.The late Apple founder, Steve Jobs, once had some choice advice for consultants: "You should do something."He made the comment at a lecture at MIT back in the spring of 1992, and he didn't stop there.Consulting misses critical elements of a meaningful job — autonomy, the space for failure, and growth opportunities, he said."Without owning something over an extended period of time, like a few years, where one has a chance to take responsibility for one's recommendations, where one has to see one's recommendations through all action stages, and accumulate scar tissue for the mistakes, and pick oneself up off the ground, and dust oneself off, one learns a fraction of what one can.