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Winding down effectively before bed?
Hi all, I had some heavy things in my childhood, and hence think I cope with stress generally very well. I cannot remember last time I felt angry or anxious, or had any issues falling asleep. I'm currently on the buyside with a side business. Hours is still OK (7-9), but since my girlfriend started...
Maintaining my sanity while I wait
Applied to many SA internships, did a handful of RD1 interviews. I struggle with patience and allowing fate to take its course. I sit here on the other end of a black hole; I wonder where my application is and who is looking at it. I busted my ass for an SA IB role. Now that I've discovered WSO, on...
Am I doing a bad job or is this normal
For context: I’m a first year S&T analyst at a bulge bracket. I have been at my company only a few months and have only just started to feel that I am getting to grips with the work. Sometimes I find that I make mistakes/ask stupid questions/ don’t always know how to do things in the best way/...
How do you guys deal with stress and anger? What do you do to contain your composure?
Sometimes I want to just straight up SNAP! I have been having a hard time with controlling myself. Been thinking about smoking some cigarettes to calm the fuck down. What do you guys do to keep your cool? Do you have sex to keep your cool? Do you just take a deep breathe? I sometimes want to go...
Best practices when it comes to dealing with stress and anxiety
Hi everyone, Wanted to see if anyone in the community has any advice/experience when it comes to dealing with the anxiety and stress that comes with high-stress/pressure roles in finance. I usually tend to find myself stressing out about my responsibilities, and this is often amplified at 2am when...
How have the long hours and stress affected your physical appearance?
I'm entering my analyst years, and this is kind of a shallow thing to be worried about but I'm curious. I imagine the constant stress and 80+ hour work weeks with little sleep and little time for exercise/ self care could affect your physical appearance. Obviously it can make your body flabby but...
Struggle to unplug from work? Read this.
Someone in the forum mentioned recently that he hates being unable to switch off. I can appreciate that because I've been there and it took me years, lots of research and working with a few mentors to understand anxiety and emotions. Being unable to switch off is not the problem. The problem is that...
Confused/anxious - really need help
Hi all, I feel that I am stuck in my situation and would really like some help. I'm currently in a direct lending role (megashop) and I've come to terms with the fact that I really just hate my job. My co workers are the most toxic people I have ever met, and I feel like I have to go to work ready...
Extreme stress and personality change
Have you guys ever saw someone go through massive personality change (for the worse) due to extremely toxic work environment or heavy stress from work, especially in finance? Is it a common occurrence? What would you do if you saw someone going through something like that? The person isn't the same...
Deciding to See a Therapist/Psychologist
Recently there's been some threads about people having anxiety and them trying to cope with it. I'm sure the current climate definitely doesn't help. I also think that not having that many people to talk to on a consistent enough daily basis (in my case, have a shitty roommate that's thankfully...
Great Interview and Story - A Banker who is quantifying his health to make informed decisions
Being a strong believer of data-driven wellness myself, I came across this story of a Banker and his journey on quantified health. He talks about how and why he measures his metabolic profile. Interesting read and learning for all of us. https://www.fitnescity.com/blog/for-bankers-who-w…
Work to live, not live to work. Low-stress finance jobs...
What are some roles with a combination of: Lifestyle (9-5) Decent pay ($125K in high COL region) Relatively low stress (limited fire drills, limited risk or potential for major mistakes) Demand (not super niche, potential to work in a relatively wide range of industries and companies) For those of...
LOL at the chumps in this industry thinking they know what stress is.
Pretty much everyone from this industry is from at-least a cushy middle middle class background, hasn't faced any real adversity in their entire life but then they'll turn around and use jargon which hints at war or toughness in some sense. "This is a very stressful job, how will you handle...". Oh...
What's your favorite way to relax?
We all have those days where we're on the verge of exploding from either school or work stress. The concept of "me time" is slowly fading with busy schedules and lifestyles that pride constant work over relaxation. But, it's important to relieve stress from time to time before it becomes...
How do you beat stress?
I am sure everyone on this forum face numerous stressful situations at work/school on a daily/weekly basis. So how do you beat it? And how do you manage to overcome the stress and not let it affect your mood or take it out on your family/co-workers? Saw this article and thought it shared a couple of...
We Are All Here to Feel a Little Stress
Mod Note (Andy): WSO readers qualify for a $100 discount to Jared's Daily Dirtnap daily market newsletter...just email [email protected] and mention "WSO Monkey Discount" You can follow Jared on twitter at @dailydirtnap Quick story from the associate training class, Lehman Brothers, 2001. The...
Finance Isn't Stressful?
I'm sure that to many of you, the title is a bit disconcerting, especially if you've just done a couple 100+ hour weeks. Sadly, according to data compiled from O*NET (Occupational Information Network), this appears to be the case, as shown in a list of the top 14 most stressful jobs in America. Now,...
Michael Lewis' Tips to Keep Your Mind Sharp
We all know Michael Lewis as the author of best-selling books such as "Liar's Poker" and "The Big Short ," books that helped us understand the workings of Wall Street and glean into the lives of traders and investment bankers. Knowing the stress of a job in finance all too well, Michael Lewis has...
When will the anxiety about success stop??
Frequent poster, posting under a new account given the personal nature of this post. Background, I am an incoming senior at a regional target. Like most of you, I am generally surrounded by the smartest, most competitive, and most driven students at my school. Going through recruiting last year was...
Can anyone speak to how stress can affect your body?
Just a little background. I graduated from college this past August, moved from the South to NYC in January, started working in VC , studying for Series 7 ,63,79. 23 years old. Working between 70-80 hours a week.
How Do You Deal With the BB Sweatshop Hours?
Currently an analyst at a top sweatshop group (GS TMT /MS M&A /Lazard/MoCo LA), just finished my 9th week in a row of 95 -140 hour weeks. Having trouble dealing with the hours. It was a lot easier coping during my internship/fall because there was an end to the internship/fun events and in the fall...
Stress / pressure at hedge funds
One of the things I hate most about banking is the high pressure / stress that gets put on the analysts from the rest of the team. I honestly think I could deal much better with external stress (ie: from markets), but I have a suspicion that hedge funds may even be more stressful than banking since...
Back office survival guide: About zombies and robots
I finished my last article with the sentence “There are actually several ways to break out of operations” but before you break out you need to survive first. Believe me, the back office seems to be more relaxed than it actually is. Depending on what markets you cover it might happen that you...
Angry Boss
Another dreadful day, loads of requests flying in, the bosses going mad and people keep yelling around for no apparent reason (its still the end of the summer, there should not be this type of disruption yet). After getting some price issues sorted out and trying to understand one of the factset...
How Stress Can Be Good
Found this interesting article at the crack of dawn. Oddly enough on my way to the gym. The premise is how our bodies atrophy without regular stress (exercise) when we age. How this can also be applied to our minds. And basically that stress can be good for you. How have you pushed yourself? Was it...
IBankers, how do you guys do it?
How do you work those ungodly hours and pretend that they don't bother you? How do you keep a smile on your face in front of your MDs or do you just not smile? Isn't it difficult to contain the stress and lack of sleep from showing? Is it normal to dread Sunday nights?
Competition and Stress
Have any of you guys ever felt like just dropping the ball and not aim for top jobs but instead to settle for a random, normal job? I'm still a college student but I'm really starting to hate the competitive atmosphere of reaching ibank. I'm not even in a hard major atm and I'm constantly stressed...
Tricks to saying no to your girlfriend when choosing work
Serious four questions please. Context: + Sometimes being with my girlfriend can take over an hour and it exhausts me. And when I sleep after that I'm really exhausted. I feel I have low energy on the morning after and sometimes feel weaker at the gym. + She's quite demanding sometimes. Sometimes 3...
Compare the stress..
..between banking and this: http://video.yahoo.com/network/101149635?v=824449… (sorry the videos a little long, but its worth sticking out to the end)
College Workload / Stress ?
I graduated from Carnegie Mellon. The workload was tough. I have heard that Chicago, CalTech, Cornell, and Cooper Union is tough as well. That leads me to wonder - do the top D-1 colleges (HYPS, Duke, etc) have high workloads? On one side of the argument, I was annoyed throughout college because I...
Financial meltdown? This is worse!
Financial meltdown? Pfft, here is something worse! They are...cold sores! Who else hates these damn things!? If someone has a remedy that can help speed the healing process, please do share.
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