Quick question about banking:
If you are having a terrible week, say working from 2am - 5am every night for the entire week and maybe more, would you sacrifice some showers for some extra sleep? It should be at most 15-30 minutes every night but 15-30 minutes is still 15-30 minutes in a time of extreme sleep deprivation. If I've been sleep
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To be honest, even if I can only get 4 hours of sleep, I try to take a quick 5 min shower + 5 min brush up as it simply gives me better quality sleep.
To me investing 10 minutes to improve my sleep quality is worth more than the 10 minutes of extra sleep, even if I'm exhausted.
Not sure if I'm alone on this one
used to go days without showering or shaving sometimes. you could always tell when analysts were going through rough periods by how unkempt they looked when they walked into the office.
Shaving I get, showering I never got.
bro just take the damn shower..... if im working late like 5am i'm sleeping in anyway
I haven’t started yet but working that long straight up seems diminishing. If I didn’t sleep in my brain would be operating at like 50% capacity the next day and id for sure be less efficient.
Is this actually normal in banking? I would think that an extra hour or two of sleep would increase the quality of work over an extra hour of working sleep deprived.
Pretty common tbh... IB is crazy inefficient with stuff like this. I average one 5am night a week. Sometimes that's 0, easy week, and sometimes that's 4 in a row
It is mentally and physically exhausting which is why the turnover rate is so high
Just shower and sleep a bit longer in the AM, or shower when you wake up. If you're truly underwater / the meeting isn't that day, you can be pretty late to work
This is just depressing
In what regard might I ask?
A group of highly intelligent human beings trying to rationalize skirting basic hygiene in order to get a few more MINUTES of sleep for employers who don’t give a damn about them at the end of the day.
At some point kids gotta take a step back and have perspective about wtf they are doing. As a senior banker I’d never subject my juniors to this, it’s just inhumane.
are you just fucking retarded? can you literally not understand how someone asking if they should shower due to their workload is depressing?
If your bathroom has a tub get in the tub and kill two birds with one stone (cleanliness + sleep).
Just make sure to keep your head above the water level
Standard sized tubs would force OP to have his head resting on one of the thicker sides. Don’t think OP lives in a penthouse as an analyst lol.
EDIT: I guess there is still a small chance of drowning assuming OP moved a lot in his sleep which I hadn’t thought about.
I've thought showers were better for relaxation than for cleaning though. It lacks the active scrubbing from a shower and the soap use.
If the options were A) Shower or B) Get more than 4 hours of sleep, I would chose option C) and lateral to another bank that respects human dignity
You are just diminishing returns if you don't take care of yourself. A shower takes 5 minutes, maybe an additional 5 minutes from water off to in the sheets. In the morning, maybe an additional 10 minutes to get ready from water off.
I'm seeing a 10-15 minute loss of time. Where a shower has great returns to your health and, if you really need to, will improve your performance.
Hygiene is important but plenty of people have gone a day or two without showering. It's a lot more normal than you think
never been on a "fire drill" this bad wtf how common is this?
Dry Shampoo if you have NO time. Always brush your teeth/ mouthwash even if you do it on your way to work. I jump in the shower every morning and immediately turn the water cold and count to 10. It wakes me up before my espresso
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