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I believe you're over-generalising from your personal work situation and if i still worked in mgmt consulting i might have done the same.
A lot of the stuff that junior consultants do is highly vulnerable to GPT-style AI replacement, and so is Indian outsourcing resources for the same stuff. I assume it's similar with junior analysts ans the like in commercial banking, based on what I've heard from friends working in that sector it seems very similar, as are junior lawyers at big firms.
These are fairly small groups of people and it's well known that a lot of what they do is practically slave labour for fairly uncomplicated stuff while dangling great future positions, working with high level people straight out of university (and learning) in front of them.
This isn't the case for most jobs in industrial sector and large governmental organisations though, and there are vastly more people employed there.
I'm not saying that these organisations are doing more complex work, only that the lower level stuff is less vulnerable to near term AI replacement, if for no other reason that the actual work doesn't consist all that much of (that kind of) symbol manipulation, even if people like to pretend otherwise.
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