This is some BS
These hours are crazy. Been putting in 90 hrs a week as a SA. Lot of late nights. But I’m going to grind it out for these last couple of weeks.
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keep calm and power through! i feel you
Hope you realize that full time is the same. Except it doesn’t end after 8 weeks.
I hope you, and all the other younger folks, realize that this is why so many people on here say to enjoy college while you can.
Amen to this. It's why I find so many of the bank rankings, prestige rankings, IB fan fiction/cosplay shit posted by college kids to be so cringy. So many people spend critical college years devoting all their time and energy towards landing a job that destroys them in under two years (in this case under 2 months).
Am I the only one who enjoys post-grad life more and actually enjoys their job (up to 10pm-12am)?
Maybe I just like being in NYC better and not sharing a room, but not having think about what I can afford and working on cool shit instead listening to retired old guys lecture every day is much more interesting to me.
This view isn’t expressed enough. I’m only like 1 week on the job so I can’t say yet, but I keep getting pleasantly surprised how much I enjoy my time at the firm.
Dude please stfu. You've been on the job 1 week and you're talking about how great it is? The first 6 mo - 1yr after graduating are rose tinted. Give it at least 2yrs before making a judgement call on post-grad life. Not to say it sucks but you have no idea the type of stuff that pops up & I don't want to illuminate you on it; enjoy your period of naive bliss while you can. Far be it from me to take it from you
Lol. Enjoy the first few months while it lasts. Things go downhill after that.
Same, same. I fucking hate my job, but I also love it. It gives me agency, and opportunity to do whatever I want. Sure, it sucks, but there are also amazing days (especially pay day). In uni it was always a hustle for the next exam, the next paper, just to reach a certain GPA. Now I'm getting paid for hustling, and people listen when I tell them what I do. It fucking rocks - and also fucking sucks, but that's life.
What kind of bank? BB? MM?
Are people at least nice?
BB.
Most people are nice, but there are still assholes and passive aggressive people. You just gotta stand up to them and then not pay them any piece of mind and focus on yourself. Same anywhere you work tbh.
BB, yeah they’re pretty cool
And just like that, OP becomes a junior banker.
A wild and fresh junior banker, ready to be wrecked hard by the godly VPs and MDs
In love with the grind
Think carefully if you want to do this FT. If you are having trouble managing your SA stint, you may want to re-think the FT option.
What Bank?
Top 3
Switch to DCM, my roommate works at dcm at a bb and comes home at 7/8pm everyday
I’ll tell you this as someone who’s now on the buyside: I don’t read 80% of slides sellside makes. I also don’t stay up late to read decks or review models, so there really is no point for junior bankers to send decks/models at 11pm (which client is awake to review them?)
Also the fact that I was going to be married & ~70% of my group’s MDs were divorced didn’t help my decision to stay in banking. Eating out of boxes for dinner every weekday wasn’t what I envisioned for myself.
Don’t let some of the posts on this forum fool you. The banking lifestyle is not worth your sanity, the hours are unduly/unnecessarily long, and efficiency is incredibly low. Family and health always come first.
This is so true, but even more funny/sad when you're still a banker and you work a buyside. You get the CIM from your client, immediately flip to the financial slides and start modeling. In the very same day, you're joining an 11pm call for your sellside to debate the merits of the 3rd sub-bullet on the "Leadership Overview" (pg. 12 of 65) for 90 minutes.
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