Starting full time in a couple of months and obviously want to be a top-rated analyst. How many of you (at any level) leave your work phone on at night? Do people who are top bucket do this? I am concerned about having my sleep constantly interrupted if I do this and then underperforming during the day from tiredness.
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Just have everything muted except for phone calls from your deal team. If it's that urgent, they will call.
Make sure email notifs don't make noise, but yeah I would have your ringer on - just set it so that calls from all contacts go through your do not disturb. It's really quite rare that people will call you overnight without you knowing they will, but there are definitely people who expect that you'll pick up any call
On a similar note, try not to get in the habit of reading your emails if you wake up in the middle of the night / the first second you wake up. That will interrupt your sleep/add anxiety more than anything else
This is insane to me, was top bucket for two years and wouldn’t ever think to do this. First of all, you should have enough of a pulse on things - if something urgent is going to come across you should be awake, if not you can sleep in peace. In my 2 years don’t think I ever missed anything by going to bed and turning phone off. Nothing important will happen between 2am and 8am, and if it’s one of those rare occasions where your waiting on something, just stay awake
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I put my phone on do not disturb every night and was still top ranked. You don’t get top bucket by being a pushover, but by delivering high quality work product and being dependable. You’ll have a sense if something might blow up early AM, so just leave your ringer on those mornings if need be. Nothing is worse than your phone ringing at 5AM because someone on the overseas tech team thinks it’s a good time to call…
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