Anyone else getting crushed lately?
I think since the new year I’ve worked ~80 hours a week consistently, after working 60-70 in the fall. Past 2-3 months have been especially brutal, with consistent weekend work/2-4am nights.
It sucks cause 75% of my group is chilling, and I heard other kids in my class talk about how they’ve barely been working the past few months with broader market conditions killing a lot of deal flow.
I’m in a weird position where I’m on a few live/highly demanding deals, but the accounts I’m on also want to do these insane pitches which create a crazy workload. My staffer isn’t the problem - they haven’t staffed me in weeks because they know I have a lot going on. But the problem is that my account staffings keep popping up with new work so I’ve never been able to get some down time/a chill week. And I feel like “the rest of the group is chilling” is not a good enough reason to go to my staffer and ask to roll off certain projects.
I’m worried that things are going to pick up even more this summer when the second years leave (they already have stopped working essentially), so it’s not like I have some break on the horizon to look forward to. I wouldn’t mind a busy summer if I’d been chilling like the rest of my group, but lately my mental health has gone really downhill and I’m not looking forward to continuing to be crushed with work.
Is anyone else having a similar experience, or has any advice about how to get through this? Thanks in advance.
Yes, except it's been 90-110+ the past 2 months consistently.
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