This probably is stupid but I’m a new An1 and I’m curious to see if you just tough it up and use just your laptop or if you bring monitors. Do y’all have portable monitors?!
Just curious especially if you’re only traveling for a weekend for leisure but would need to log on to take care of deliverables
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If I'm not traveling for work my laptop isn't even coming with me.
Damn now that’s VP paradise
No, the portable monitors really aren't much better than a laptop. They take up a lot of space/weight and are ultimately still a tiny screen with a laptop keyboard.
Unfortunately as an analyst it's pretty hard to do weekend trips unless you actually take time off and people know not to bother you. It's fine to use a travel setup or laptop for emails and some light ppt/excel, but it's pretty challenging to do a full weekend of normal work (modeling, 60 slide ppts) from a laptop. Fine to do occasionally but I would just not come in with the expectation that you'll be traveling frequently - your work will be a lot slower and people won't put up with that if it's a semi regular thing
If you have actually taken a week or weekend off, I would bring a laptop *just in case* but no need to have any larger plan to plug in.
Awesome thanks for the tip! Yeah I don’t plan on traveling that much just a weekend every couple of months to visit my S/O or some friends from college
If you have protected weekends you're using that's totally fine, but if your firm is the type where Sunday is a normal, full workday you're going to annoy your deal teams if you're spending a full day on a laptop more than like 2-3x a year, tops. It's just incredibly inefficient working from a laptop as an analyst
I have colleagues that store smaller setups at a long distance GF/BF house, or go into the local office if there is one. Not ideal situations but analyst job is just pretty tricky to do from a laptop given how much you have going on
I have a small extension screen from Acer. It fits in my backpack NP. Although Im using a large backpack from Briggs and Riley, it still looks fine as an office backpack np.
its nice to have but not as good as a real monitor.
I saw someone at Newark with one of these a month back to run BBerg onto but screen quality looked horrendous. Is Acer screen quality up to par or somewhat lacking?
I meant to say Asus! Yeah its good, grabbed it off amz. Quality isnt as good as a real monitor but its 90% there.
Recommend bringing na hdmi cable so you can get 2 screens if you’re staying in a hotel
Pack a decent portable monitor and my bluetooth keyboard/mouse anytime I travel, even tho its a small screen, the extra monitor + my full keyboard allows me to be pretty productive.
Seconded here, have travelled on weekends all the time throughout banking/PE and never once without my portable Lenovo monitor + keyboard/mouse to be able to have 2-screen setup as needed. No it’s not the same as a desk but makes a world of difference vs a laptop when you have to grind.
100%. Lol at these people saying it’s not ok to take weekend trips. Guess I’ve been playing the system for the past year plus… been taking weekend trips every month or two because why not? Portable monitor + keyboard + mouse is actually quite efficient. I’d guess 80% normal efficiency.
Planning to work from Australia for roughly 8 days around Christmas time. Any recommendations on how to navigate that?
Take the time off... banks usually don't let first years take the holidays off, but if you're from Australia bring it up to your staffer. Maybe you cover Thanksgiving to make up for it, for example
working ~10pm to 3pm Australia time is an absolutely horrific idea, monitors or not
Thank you for your response. The issue is that I am hoping to go for roughly 2-3 weeks given I only get to go home once a year to meet my family. I cannot take PTO that long, and was planning to use PTO for a week maybe, and WFH the rest of the days. I do understand that Christmas and New Year will give me a few days off too. Also, I know the hours won't be ideal but I don't have any other choice so I'll do my best to make it work.
Most business focused hotels allow you to connect your laptop to a TV, so all you'd need is a cable.
Alternatively: get one of those small projectors and throw this against a white wall (most hotels have white walls).
You can also go to your corporate office in the destination city or use the hotel's business center (if they have one).
I have never seen anyone travel with a monitor.
Pro-tip: a wireless keyboard is much smaller and enhances productivity at a much higher rate than does an extra monitor.
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