Of course he worked hard but he said that there is no comparison to what analysts are doing these days versus his junior days. 80-100 hour weeks were extremely rare (he remembers only a few), not the norm as it is for so many junior bankers. Similarly, he is shocked by the no time off component given laptops / phones are required on all holidays / weekends etc.
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Wow, a senior who doesn't completely make up how much harder things were in his day. Refreshing.
F that
I probably worked for your dad.
Before blackberries, we had pagers. You were paged when you got a voicemail from your MD which was normally on a weekend. Then you had to call in, check your voice mail which was normally a five minute rambling message and them go back to the effin office to send an “email” or open a file. I’m not sure we worked harder but the technology aspect or lack thereof made life so much more painful.
I worked with MDs and partners who had to model on paper in pencil in their junior days so they could correct mistakes. That sounds brutal. Companies were also much simpler before the advent of spreadsheets.
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