How Do You Take Vacation
Just wrapped up my first year with 0 vacation days taken. I'm feeling the stress pile up and know that I need to take a break... but I don't know how.
At my firm, we assign one analyst per deal, so I'm the only analyst in my firm that has information and files for 8 live deals right now.
There are only analysts and MDs at my firm, so if I leave for a week, then my MDs will have to do all the work regarding those deals. Sure my other analysts can step in, but they will have a huge learning curve for getting caught up on each deal.
I just don't understand how people take time off in this industry... any advice?
What have people done in your group for vacation historically?
Vacation (Originally Posted: 11/15/2012)
Hey guys, I haven't seen this talked about really so I figured I would ask and see what it's like everywhere else. What are you vacation times like? How much do you get + how many sick days? Make sure you say if your an analyst 3rd year etc. as obviously it makes a difference.
"You want vacation time? Go teach 3rd grade!"
I'm in my 4th year and I think I get 3 weeks. Honestly it's not really an issue - nobody's keeping track given how much we travel for work (I work at a boutique btw). That being said this isnt a job where you can just drop off for two weeks and pick up where you left off. Any kind of market based job like research, sales, trading etc is going to be like that. Around here most people take a big vacation in the summer when its slow for a week or so, and maybe a few fridays off here and there for a 3-day weekend.
just to clarify I was not implying that any job gets any real significant amount of vacation time... I was just curious what the allotments for everyone else were just to compare for shits and giggles...
At my firm, most research associates (and I believe analysts) get 2 weeks. Pretty much everyone takes its in December, when clients are on holidays, and they take it as bloc leave.
I get about 3.5 weeks off for vacation.
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