According to various threads on WSO, the best thing to do as a SA is to really take your time and make sure your work is perfect before submitting it for review. Conversely, I have also read some threads where productivity is measured in your ability to juggle various projects and not "lag", so as to not be seen as inefficient, and that pace demonstrates competency.
I guess my question is, how slow is too slow, and how does one get a good feel for pace? I imagine with 80 hour+ work weeks, you take your time with the work unless an Analyst/Associate/VP needs something ASAP? Can anyone who converted SA to FT comment on this? Thanks a lot!
Clearly very situation-specific and deadline driven. One important thing to do on each assignment is understand the various deadlines. For example, if a pitch is going on in a week, you should get a solid draft to your associate in 3-4 days so the iterations can continue on pace up the food chain from there. If you do this with each project you're working on, you should develop a good sense of your bandwidth and the amount of time you're able to spend on each piece of the puzzle to remain on schedule.
Notwithstanding all that, don't fuck up.
Thanks for your response, solid advice. Anyone else?
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