What's the wildest week you had during your SA stint? In terms of hours and/or things that happened.
For me, it was during my 7th week when I cranked out 81 hours Mon - Fri. I had a deadline for a turn of a CIP on Wednesday and a pitch dropped on my team on Thursday. The analyst also had PTO on Friday..not ideal. I started to have dreams about the pitch I was working on lol so I was relieved when things went back to normal.
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Omg, mine was the time I spent 9000 HOURS FROM MON-SUN MIDNIGHT working on a deck for an HR EVENT AT MY FORMER BUSINESS SCHOOL!
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0 hours the week i was fired. it was WILD
Worked at a pretty small boutique and worked 90+ weeks regularly as an intern
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