IB Associates: what is your day-to-day usually like?

Curious to see what people’s day in the life is like, if anyone wants to indulge. Can you also put rough timestamps and give some detail about the bank/group. Also if you’re an associate, what’s the end game? Do you think you’ll be in banking forever?

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