How Many Hours do Seniors Work

I am only in high school right now. But I am just curious how many hours seniors (VP, Principal, MD) work at MF/UMM? I understand that my first few years would be a grind but I also want to raise a family. I'd imagine when people reach 30+ and start families that they can't afford to stay at the office until 12.

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You have plenty of time, don't waste your time on this forum in high school

Seniors will often work 9-5 in the office and then log on or send comments from an iPad for a few hours, say 8-10pm, after dinner. It's not awful hours but you don't really clock out either, and will miss some soccer games/vacation trips in this career especially at MF or UMM. You're not in the office grinding away like the juniors, but you are generally on call with deals going on and will likely be working nights and weekends, either on the phone or dealing with decks/emails. Vacations aren't really protected at that level so can expect some level of work if a deal is busy during vacation.

 

I would echo that it's way too early for you to be thinking about this right now.

But to answer your question - pure hours in the office is reduced at that stage but the level of stress never tapers off...if anything, it's higher since the buck stops with you at that point and you are responsible for your portfolio companies...between new deal sourcing and execution and managing X number of portfolio companies, you're always thinking about something and therefore are never "off" even if you're not doing that from your office.

 

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