Does your firm provide free meals or a meal expense account?
I'm working at a private equity firm. The hours (in terms of face time) are around 65 - 75 per week, depending on where we are in deal closing. At my firm at the end of the day we get to go home to finish some work (ex. modeling, due diligence reports, ppts, etc.)
The issue is my firm does not provide meals or an expense account. In NYC it is expensive to constantly eat out on top of other living expenses. I try making food at home and take some snacks but usually I don't have enough or run out by the middle of the day. It takes a while to cook and I get little sleep as is. It becomes very hard to concentrate when you are starving after a certain point and I already lost a few unhealthy pounds.
Any tips or ideas?
That's odd; sorry to hear that. Maybe buy some form of protein to help curb the hunger so you're not completely famished?
That's a good idea, I will try doing that.
Eat a banana or an apple, tons of carbs so it actually fills you up.
That's tough. I agree with the protein idea and some sort of carbs. How big is your firm?
Clif bars and protein bars/shakes are a good/healthy source of calories/protein.
Make sure you have more than enough snacks on hand when you're first testing them out. I tried the cliff bar and protein shake one time but I was still starving so I had to stop working to go get more food anyways.
Protein and fat is filling. I recommend stockpiling almonds, especially the Blue Diamond's flavored almonds. The habenero and wasabi are clutch (two different flavors, haha).
I have about 24 boxes of Cliff Bars in a huge drawer in my office for this exact reason. Also second the Blue Diamond almonds, though they are expensive, and need to echo that the Wasabi & Soy Sauce flavor is simply orgasmic.
If it gets tiring to be eating food in bar forms all the time, bringing a plastic bowl + instant oatmeal works too. I'm sure your firm at least has a microwave in the office. Just sprinkle in almonds, brown sugar, etc. and that should be enough to hold you over for a couple hours.
Free Lunch (Originally Posted: 12/18/2006)
Do most I-banking firms give free lunch.
No.
i think you can get free dinner usually though. don't underestimate this.
it depends largely on the department you are in. as to dinner, you get it for free if you work after 7p.
Maybe. Spend wisely the night before ;)
cold chinese takeout from last night makes helluva lunch ;-)
this summer at lehman i did this sometimes...use the whole 25 bucks for dinner, then save some stuff for lunch the next day.
Although it often turned out being trashed since all the interns co-erced me into going out for lunch with them.
does this happen at the analyst level? this group meal thing?
otherwise, this is an excellent idea. you spend no money for food!
firms have a free cafeteria...or at least a "discounted" cafeteria. but most you pay for your own lunch.
people buy my lunch. but I'm on a desk.
my econ professor told me there is no such thing as a free lunch... so i doubt it
your econ professor is an idiot.
Paid dinner (Originally Posted: 05/29/2009)
How does it usually work for dinner, if you don't spend the money can you keep it anyway? Also, i'm thinking of packing a lunch to save on $, does anyone do this or will I look ridiculous?
You can't keep the money, just spend the max and save for snacks.
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Spend the max and save what you will not eat/drink for later that night or the following day.
What about the packed lunch?
you might get shit for it but who cares.
PnL, who cares? The difference is getting a full-time offer and not getting one.
pussinboots the difference is getting shit for something vs what will actually cost you an offer. if you dont get shit from traders while being an SA then that means nobody likes/cares about you in the first place
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