I've been struggling a lot with my mental health recently and in particular I've been feeling really lonely. Getting through my analyst years during covid has left me with no friends and no hobbies, to be blunt.
I want to start trying new things and hopefully meeting new people that way. The issue I'm finding is that lots of the things I'd like to do are scheduled for weekday evenings. People seem to save their weekends for close friends, family & partners.
Is it at all realistic to be away from the desk for 2-3 hours every Tuesday evening to join a basketball league, for example? I'd still be expecting the occasional fire drill to ruin my plans, but I'd hope that would be every 3 months rather than every 3 weeks. I'm not particularly busy at the moment and I often find I have a few hours spare in the evening, but it's not easy to commit to something on a specific day at a specific time.
If this kind of thing isn't feasible, are there any other options you'd suggest?
Think this is perfectly reasonable, as long as you make up the time (i.e., don't be the guy who refuses to work second protected saturday, or whatever your banks policy is starts).
Obviously easier on the weekends though and there are plenty of basketball leagues on the weekends, so may be less stressful all around. Just be open and communicate this frequently with the group.
Totally group dependent, but to be honest this would not fly at my bank - 1 hour maybe, 3 hours no. I just can't see that amount of time for every week for 6 weeks without sitting there on your laptop the entire time.
Group dependent of course, some groups may be fine with it. Volo has like a million weekend sports league, I would do that
What firm / group at you at?
BB, top group but not one of the frequently mentioned sweatshops. You can leave for an hour around dinner no prob, but people would 100% start passive aggressively pinging you if you were gone for 2 hours or more, esp regularly
Ohhhhhh. My bad. I was thinking leaving at night to do something. I just re-read the comment and saw that it was talking about dinner. Yeap, my firm (non-BB) has something similar (one hour-ish). I was thinking about how most of our analysts would leave around 11 then do work from home - which allowed their response time to decrease. Sprints/ bake-offs excluding of course. I don't think there are many basketball leagues happening around midnight haha
I do beer league sports on weekdays. Some weeks I make it, some weeks I don't. Nothing wrong with it IMO as long as you are smart and tactful about it. Don't be unavailable, be flexible if work comes up, be communicative. Very team dependent ultimately.
I would encourage you to carve out time for yourself. I think you know well enough that there will always be more work, more deadlines and always more shit to do. If it isn't clear already, your (or any) firm's priority is not your health or wellbeing. It's on you to make sure you are taking care of yourself.
Thanks, great to hear that you can make it work. I think I'll give it a go but ultimately will have to be flexible of course.
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