Anyone here do 100 hour work weeks regularly?

JJs07 said:
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friscostylez said:
nycknicks105 said:
I've averaged around 105 hrs per week this summer. Investment banking is no joke :smh:

Off to business school out in the west coast though. Won't have to deal with those crazy hours for the next 2 years.
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bruce negro said:
I work 85 - 100 hour work weeks regularly. Investment banking.
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How do people work that many hours? Addy? Coffee? Other type of drugs? Can you take a nap nap?
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:lol:

Some people are into that stuff and some people just grind it out. IB is a lot easier now than what it was when I started. There's protected weekends and mandatory time off now.

Back then you'd be on call 24/7.
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Is that due to the intern death a few years back (I think it was in IB)?
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Some of it is attributed to the tragedies that happened to junior bankers and also candidates coming out of top universities aren't going into finance anymore. They elect to go out west and work for a cool start up because the culture is more laid back and the pay is relatively the same.

One thing to take into consideration is that IB has irreversibly changed over the past few years. It's not what it used to be and a lot of senior bankers share this sentiment. Gov't regulations and culture change has really had a significant impact on the industry.
 
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nycknicks105 said:
Some of it is attributed to the tragedies that happened to junior bankers and also candidates coming out of top universities aren't going into finance anymore. They elect to go out west and work for a cool start up because the culture is more laid back and the pay is relatively the same.

One thing to take into consideration is that IB has irreversibly changed over the past few years. It's not what it used to be and a lot of senior bankers share this sentiment. Gov't regulations and culture change has really had a significant impact on the industry.
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I think most ivy league and high level private MBAs are still looking at the big 3 mgmt consulting firms as #1 and then bulge bracket banks as #2 over going to Silicon Valley
 
nycknicks105 said:
friscostylez said:
nycknicks105 said:
I've averaged around 105 hrs per week this summer. Investment banking is no joke :smh:

Off to business school out in the west coast though. Won't have to deal with those crazy hours for the next 2 years.
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bruce negro said:
I work 85 - 100 hour work weeks regularly. Investment banking.
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How do people work that many hours? Addy? Coffee? Other type of drugs? Can you take a nap nap?
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:lol:

Some people are into that stuff and some people just grind it out. IB is a lot easier now than what it was when I started. There's protected weekends and mandatory time off now.

Back then you'd be on call 24/7.
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Agree that IB is easier now. My internship in summer 2013 was much worse than the majority of my first year full-time. Still very challenging though - if you're on a live deal or working with a real piece of work then Saturday policies don't mean ****.

Did you just finish up your analyst stint?
 
plansb said:
I'm too efficient and organized to work more than a 40/50 hour week. :lol:
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Yeah, Ok.

We had a guy like you in my group a few years and he didn't last the year :lol:


millenial said:
nycknicks105 said:
Some of it is attributed to the tragedies that happened to junior bankers and also candidates coming out of top universities aren't going into finance anymore. They elect to go out west and work for a cool start up because the culture is more laid back and the pay is relatively the same.


One thing to take into consideration is that IB has irreversibly changed over the past few years. It's not what it used to be and a lot of senior bankers share this sentiment. Gov't regulations and culture change has really had a significant impact on the industry.
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I think most ivy league and high level private MBAs are still looking at the big 3 mgmt consulting firms as #1 and then bulge bracket banks as #2 over going to Silicon Valley
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Honestly, it really depends where you went to school. For the most part, if you go to school out west you're most likely headed into Tech. East coast is usually finance. But for the most part, not as many people are too keen into going into finance these days.

bruce negro said:
nycknicks105 said:
friscostylez said:
nycknicks105 said:
I've averaged around 105 hrs per week this summer. Investment banking is no joke :smh:

Off to business school out in the west coast though. Won't have to deal with those crazy hours for the next 2 years.
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bruce negro said:
I work 85 - 100 hour work weeks regularly. Investment banking.
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How do people work that many hours? Addy? Coffee? Other type of drugs? Can you take a nap nap?
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:lol:

Some people are into that stuff and some people just grind it out. IB is a lot easier now than what it was when I started. There's protected weekends and mandatory time off now.

Back then you'd be on call 24/7.
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Agree that IB is easier now. My internship in summer 2013 was much worse than the majority of my first year full-time. Still very challenging though - if you're on a live deal or working with a real piece of work then Saturday policies don't mean ****.

Did you just finish up your analyst stint?
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Finished my analyst program 3 years ago and became an associate after my 3rd year.

Decided I didn't want to stay in IB anymore. Can't stand the bulge bracket culture anymore. I want to go into something more entrepreneurial after business school. Maybe even private equity or consulting.
 
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I average around 85 hours a week. Im currently working two full time jobs, I need to get myself a job that pays the same with out the extra gig.
 
I work 56hrs every other week. I'm glad my job is cake work. Plan on doing this until the year is up. Then I'll go back to a regular 9-5. I miss not having the weekends[emoji]128548[/emoji]
 
Friend of mine works for deloitte in tokyo. He had to go for a 6 month sick leave due to officially being burnt out. This falls under short term disability. His days were 10 am to 2 am everyday when we was working.
 
doing around 45 hours per week now.

probably going to be around 50 soon enough.
 
nycknicks105 said:
Finished my analyst program 3 years ago and became an associate after my 3rd year.

Decided I didn't want to stay in IB anymore. Can't stand the bulge bracket culture anymore. I want to go into something more entrepreneurial after business school. Maybe even private equity or consulting.
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Word. At a BB as well and have never planned on staying past year three. I've heard post-MBA PE recruiting is extremely difficult, but I'm sure you have a good deal of connections within that industry now that will help out. Always hedge funds as well.

wballz said:
Friend of mine works for deloitte in tokyo. He had to go for a 6 month sick leave due to officially being burnt out. This falls under short term disability. His days were 10 am to 2 am everyday when we was working.
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....seriously? 6 month work leave? I'm lucky if I get a any days off after a stretch like that. The ****.
 
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Quality of work has to be trash once you exceed 60.

I don't even want to hear otherwise. Dudes are absolutely destroying their bodies, I don't see why we glorify people working suicide shifts as something admirable.

I work 40 and still think that's too much for someone to achieve that perfect work-life balance.
 
bruce negro said:
nycknicks105 said:
Finished my analyst program 3 years ago and became an associate after my 3rd year.

Decided I didn't want to stay in IB anymore. Can't stand the bulge bracket culture anymore. I want to go into something more entrepreneurial after business school. Maybe even private equity or consulting.
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Word. At a BB as well and have never planned on staying past year three. I've heard post-MBA PE recruiting is extremely difficult, but I'm sure you have a good deal of connections within that industry now that will help out. Always hedge funds as well.

wballz said:
Friend of mine works for deloitte in tokyo. He had to go for a 6 month sick leave due to officially being burnt out. This falls under short term disability. His days were 10 am to 2 am everyday when we was working.
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....seriously? 6 month work leave? I'm lucky if I get a any days off after a stretch like that. The ****.
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Didn't know that being burnt out was an official medicak term as well.
 
Japan has highest suicide rates for a reason..

I worked 73 hours 2 weeks ago, usually I'm around 60.

12h shifts worked 6 days in a row.

Wake up 3:30am, ready by 4:00, 30 minutes to work. 4:30am-5:30pm work (1 hour lunch break). Drive home in traffic takes an hour on the way back. Home by 6:30pm. Make dinner/eat dinner until 7:30pm, shower and get ready to go to bed = 8:30pm. Work is in 7 hours at (need to get up at) 3:30am again. Trickled in between these days was needing to wash my uniform/pick up gas/other errands.

All I did that week was work, eat, get ready for work again.

By the 6th day in a row I was exhausted mentally and physically and my work was no longer efficient.

I have no plans to work that much ever again.
 
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Spent the last 2 weeks on a project... 

averaged 16 hours a day for 12 days straight... slept in office the whole time

felt like a high by the second week...

the floor was not comfy but it worked out for me
 
GWAP said:
 
Spent the last 2 weeks on a project... 

averaged 16 hours a day for 12 days straight... slept in office the whole time

felt like a high by the second week...

the floor was not comfy but it worked out for me
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You working on your own startup?
 
millenial said:
 
GWAP said:
 
Spent the last 2 weeks on a project... 

averaged 16 hours a day for 12 days straight... slept in office the whole time

felt like a high by the second week...

the floor was not comfy but it worked out for me
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You working on your own startup?
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Yeah i guess you could call it that.

I have an IT and design business that has been paying the bills for the last 3 years

and I'm starting to expand into a few new markets.

The business is basically running on autopilot with solid clientele,

so I don't have to worry about money while I brainstorm and work on new ideas.
 
I work 12-14 hour days Monday - Friday. Get in at seven and I'm here until at least seven. I've heard it gets longer in the fall and winter, that's real grind time hours. I take stuff home with me and do stuff over the weekend too but I don't count that cause I'm not really there

I'm here right now actually. Have been since 7 A.M

nycknicks105 said:
I've averaged around 105 hrs per week this summer. Investment banking is no joke :smh:

Off to business school out in the west coast though. Won't have to deal with those crazy hours for the next 2 years.
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bruce negro said:
I work 85 - 100 hour work weeks regularly. Investment banking.
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Thinking about making that transition from Private Wealth to IBD one day. I don't really start the mba grind until next year though and I doubt I could make a lateral move without it.

In a dream world I would want to just go down there for 2-3 months and see what it's like.
 
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For those of you here thats been saying you work 85-100 hours I really hope all of you are getting into position for early retirement with this kind of sacrifice when you're young.  I'm talking like retiring at 30-40 years old early.
 
I'm laying a foundation for my kids and the generations of family in the future....

Retirement will be when I cannot physically work anymore...

I'm not living for "leisure"... I'm here for progress..
 
plansb said:
nycknicks105 said:
Yeah, Ok.

We had a guy like you in my group a few years and he didn't last the year.
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You don't even know what I do. :lol: I have been in my career for almost ten years now and have had no issues climbing the ladder.
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You don't even know what investment banking is then.

There's been THOUSANDS of bankers since the industry started and I've never heard of a single one being "efficient enough" to just work 40 hours a week. The amount of deal flow is just too much for someone to only stay in the office for 40 hours per week. Even some of the most talented bankers put in the hours.

Usually once you get to a very senior level, the hours slow down and you live a "normal" life. Even then I've seen some VERY senior bankers stay in the office till 10PM.
 
nycknicks105 said:
You don't even know what investment banking is then.

There's been THOUSANDS of bankers since the industry started and I've never heard of a single one being "efficient enough" to just work 40 hours a week. The amount of deal flow is just too much for someone to only stay in the office for 40 hours per week. Even some of the most talented bankers put in the hours.

Usually once you get to a very senior level, the hours slow down and you live a "normal" life. Even then I've seen some VERY senior bankers stay in the office till 10PM.
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my original comment wasn't about investment bankers - it was about Me. If you want to work obscene hours then that's great. Personally, I prefer to have a work/life balance.
 
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