Drinking through a firehose… how to manage
Approaching a month into FT a Tech M&A group I didn’t intern at. Like the people so far and have been trying hard to learn a lot and pick up the skills I need from training. Going through precedents, going through practice exercises repeatedly, trying to rebuild slides and analyses, networking with people, sitting in on calls, communicating with my team, trying to understand the complexity of all the moving pieces of the deal I’m on, etc. There is genuinely so much stuff going on.
It is an incredible amount of info. Today I was trying to revisit everything I’ve gone through as an assessment and a refresher and I realize it’s truly a huge amount of stuff. I’ve picked up on a good bit but it’s just too much for me to handle it feels like. Talking to others in my analyst class it seems like I’m not alone but that doesn’t really feel great either. How do I deal with this? I’m trying to spend weekends catching up and getting better at stuff that is being glazed over like common knowledge at work.
Bump
One step at a time. Nobody becomes an expert overnight, and every single (yes every) person on your team has went through what you are.
Focus on learning one (or more ;) ) things a day, and build systems.
For example, when you’re taking notes on a notebook on how to do X or how to do Y, make a page in one note summarizing the example, attach relevant emails, and any keywords that are important.
Then, when 6 months later you’re asked to do the same thing and have no fucking clue, you can search one note for “how to build an LBO for a company with a negative FCF profile” (that’s a joke)
But in all seriousness, master how to crawl, and then you’ll be able to walk. Then practice walking, and you’ll be sprinting in no time
You got this
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