Extreme stress and personality change
Have you guys ever saw someone go through massive personality change (for the worse) due to extremely toxic work environment or heavy stress from work, especially in finance? Is it a common occurrence?
What would you do if you saw someone going through something like that? The person isn't the same person who he or she was a year ago and etc. Would you convince them to quit their job and look for another one or make them stick it out for the better if they are going to rotate to another desk a year later (which would mean another year of hell)?
The economy isn't doing that well so recruiting elsewhere will be extremely tough too. So when you come across this type of situation, would you encourage them to tough it out knowing that they already changed so much? They now experience stress-related health symptoms and cry quite often after or throughout work.
Of course.
Combine insufficient sleep and deterioration of personal relationships with a high baseline level of stress from being in a demanding role (always needing to be ‘on’ and appear smart, having to create non-boilerplate slides and assumptions from scratch, dealing with uncertainty re: your schedule or the MD’s mood or what your competitive coworkers are going to pull next) and you’ll get plenty of meltdowns and existential crises
And that’s when people head off to b school
You're already posting anonymously, why don't you just admit that its you having the problems? Most people don't even notice or give a shit about other people.
Posing the questions about how to help someone else is convoluting the discussion.
The person I was talking about was my girlfriend.
I hope you’re doing well. I’m going through something similar and it happened very fast. I talked to some of my friends that are still in college and they served as an ear. It helps letting people you’re struggling. You can’t be helped if you don’t let people help you.
yeah. me. i was a mean fucking alcoholic for 3 years
im still not a particularly pleasant person but it's much better
Pretty much everyone I know (myself included) has come out the other end of their Analyst stint a different person. It's impossible for something to consume that much of your life and not change you. The biggest change I am aware of is my total lack of patience and my obsession with optimization of personal time.
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