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While in banking (both answers):
Longest time without work to do would've been 3-4 days or so during the late summer. There's always stuff to do, but nothing was pressing.
Longest continuous amount of time worked would've been my first true all-nighter as a first year for a pitch. Started work around 9am on day 1 and finished around 11:30pm on day 2. So ~38 hours or so.
I bet someone around here has done day 1 through day 3 evening without stopping, luckily that person is not me.
38 hours for me as well, although I'm pretty sure I took a 30+ minute break to eat some apples as my brain literally wasn't functioning
During the month of June last year, I worked around 5-10 total hours the whole...month. Ever since then though, I've been pulling 100+ hour weeks. Crazy how busy things got since late summer last year.
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