Mental Health Check In - How are people doing? Im horrible lol
Just getting so sick of it everyday. Having to be 100% correct all the time. Having to have an answer to everything. Have to be able to back everything up, have support for everything, know wy somethings the way it is, just being in charge of so much while having no sleep and endless stress. I haven't had a weekend off in 6 months, I've been riddled with anxiety, I've started crying at night before bed. The literal highlight of my day is the morning subway where I can watch tiktoks for 15 minutes before I walk into literal hell. Sitting at my desk I literally CANNOT wait until the day is over, what a sad way to live nothing to look forward to.
Thinking about making the jump to strategic finance or strategy or something. What are peoples plans, and how are people doing?
Take some time off if you can. If you can’t go for a 20 minute walk before going to sleep every night, make sure your diet is clean and high protein, and do everything in your power to make sure you can get 8 hours of sleep at night. The compounding impact of sleep deprivation is what pushes a lot of people over the line into full on burnout. Find a therapist to vent to, so you don’t push all your bottled up anxiety and anger onto your friends and family. Telemedicine appointments before work are possible.
Apart from that, start looking for your next gig. Apply to literally anything with the words finance, strategy, corporate development, business development, or FP&A and learn about jobs through interviews. Start networking on LinkedIn with people who left PE for corporate to get the highest response rate and find the best opportunities.
If you still want to stay in finance, start head hunter outreach but have a more specific idea of what you want in mind before you speak with them. If you don’t know what you want, start LinkedIn networking with people at HFs, VC, other PE firms etc.
If you’re too burned out to do any of that, I would get to your 2 year mark and then either: 1) ask to work at a portco, or 2) take off 2-3 months and then start going hard at networking for your next gig.
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