Anyone else giving less and less fucks about their performance?

I wanna do this, but I also have a ton of student debt and my firm gives great bonuses. For this reason I feel like I should be gunning for the top bucket but I don't have the kiss ass in me and don't want to ruin my relationships with family, friends, gf too

solid mandalorian reference

I was the same way until I realized whether I put 100% or 50% into a projection, it's still going to show the same results and the MD's / clients are still going to get what they want. I think you just need to realize that you're the only one noticing the extra effort you put into things, especially if you're working from home.

once you start facing consequences of caring too much, like health problems, you'll learn to care less.

Here's one, which I'd only recommend if you want to end up in the middle (i.e. you don't want to get fired but you also don't want top bucket / associate promotion): Do as much of your financial analysis as possible with a "quick and dirty" methodology. It pains me to think of all the option tranches I broke out to calculate the exact share count / market cap, revenue weighted DSOs and similarly irrelevant cash flow calculations, hours spent getting a balance sheet to balance that was off by 0.0001%, and countless other minutiae that no one cared about and literally not a soul on the planet earth could have identified as erroneous without digging into the backup. 

>I know this is about people working in IB, but I feel this as a college student as well.

kid, fuck off

No offense but if you can't put up with the mind numbingly boring zoom classes with 0 real stress you're probably fucked for IB.

There's a difference between burning yourself out a coverage account because your MD/partners are trying to stuff a thousand decks a year down a client's throat and knowing when it's time to grind for something that really matters. I would argue that knowing how to differentiate between those two is what actually makes a good analyst, because the less time you spend on doing bullshit things, the more time you can actually allocate to the things that matter. 

That said, there is some value in doing those bullshit things your first year on the job for reps, so you know what is worth half-assing and what needs more focus. 

My first comment was more in relation to making sure you step on the gas at the appropriate times in your career.  Making sure one model is better than finding 10 different projects to throw shit at all the time.  

OP here - I have a side business I started in college that nets me 120k a year with almost no work (less than 10hrs a week to maintain). uncreative, risk averse people like you seem to think the only way to make money is to be miserable grinding away for someone else. 

It's ok to be don't care much middle bucket, but tbh over the years the analyst we had who acted little too smart and took the easy path eventually fizzled out in next job(s). If you want to go be in some slower / lower paying job, it's fine. But if you think you can take your kind of don't care attitude and be successful at a competitive PE/HF or even corporate scene where competition might be fierce, you won't do too well. It's true pre or post COVID. No one wants a 70% effort guy and if you can't push now, you won't later. 

This is an extremely retarded boomerism and reading it made me want to reach through the screen and throttle you

There's also a difference between spending 80-100 hrs per week doing some bullshit in IB where intellectual creativity is (generally speaking) not rewarded at the analyst level (i.e. your super creative/insightful analysis means very little/nothing for the deal) and doing it at a HF where that added creativity or unique insight can be the difference between losing and making millions of dollars.

PE is probably more similar to IB in this sense, as a 1st year associate is unlikely to add any significant amounts of value to a deal.

I work 80-100 hours per week not because I have to (I could get away with much less), but because I actually love what I do and there's a direct relationship between effort/creativity put in and output.

If you're in IB, that may not be the case and it can be less motivating. I know I'm personally far less motivated to do bullshit tasks vs. researching an investment thesis (not just in terms of hours, but also genuine effort/creativity).

So many People had their heads down during Precovid when they got the opportunity to look up they weren't sure where they were.

Time to do the minimum and just find an exit opp. 

Is this a troll? Lol

What group is this? The current bank may re-allocate a few of you, but the rest may likely get downsized. 

Start looking elsewhere / reach out to the MDs that left and see if anyone will take you with them.