Keeping shabbat in private equity
I started keeping shabbat toward the end of my first year in banking after I had accepted my offer for PE, so at the time of my offer I was non-observant.
Might this be an issue with my PE role, and if so, what advice might you provide to address this?
Did you have a problem in banking. If not then you likely won’t in pe. This is finance, everyone’s jewish
You shouldn’t have any problems as long as you make it clear upfront, especially to your deal teams.
I echo everyone above, but I assume this is obviously a NY position. Would be more of an issue the farther you get away from the Northeast.
Agree with this. After leaving New York I was surprised at how few Jews I came across in finance (and in general). It may be a tougher sell outside NYC just because people won't have background or context.
I’ve never actually seen this how do you do this on a live deal? Other deal team members just pick up the slack? Do you then pick up their slack on Sunday?
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Obv this differs by how observant the jew is. But for those who do actually observe, no the rules aren’t flexible or fast and loose. For me I was never observant so I work on Saturdays anyway. But I won’t work during the high holidays.
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If you are going to keep Shabbat while maintaining respect from your peers (and not make fellow Jews look lazy) you need to:
1) Clearly state this commitment and its requirements, upfront with live deal team members. You can't just selectively follow it like in banking, either go all in or not at all
2) Clearly state (and follow through) that you commit to working all hours preceding and succeeding Shabbat, such as late Thursday/Saturday night. PE crunch-time can be demanding, worse than banking, but if you pull an all-nighter Thursday and start working at 10pm on Saturday nobody who isn't a douche is going to think any less of you (and I'd argue that you gain respect for showing your commitment).
On the other hand, if you push off work to your VP Friday afternoon without looking to front-load any, and don't log back in until Sunday at 10am, now you just look like a lazy douche who is using religion to scape work.
Get a rabbi to set an eruv around the office and your apartment. Problem = fixed
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eruv
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