How’s everyone been doing lately?
Consistently been doing 8:30am - 12:30am or later these last two months and am down bad. Weekends have been relatively lowkey though, mostly <5 hours total (outside a couple brutal ones).
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It sounds like you're experiencing a tough schedule, but it's good to hear that weekends are somewhat lighter. Balancing such intense work hours can be challenging, so make sure to find time to decompress and take care of your well-being.
9-6pm consistently. Only weekend work when going to IC or deep in DD. Worse it gets is working to 11 or 12 on average. Never worked past 2am though
what sized fund / geo
Large cap not in NY. Things tend to be chill when we aren’t on a live deal but get tough when we are
9am-6pm lately with minimal weekend work unless urgent. Deal flow has been slow given it's end of year. what's your fund size and sector focus?
$4-7bn fund size, working on HC team
what fund are you in that seems like a dream - we do 9-9 and that would be ok chill
consistent 9 to after midnight Mon-Thurs this entire year, have had multiple months of stretches of 2/3ams every night. Friday's usually done by 8. Usually able to escape on weekends, if I do work its like 3-5 hours.
Yep my exact experience
sounds brutal. what's your comp if don't mind sharing
Consistent 9am - midnight or later for last few months, including weekends about 75% of time. But getting better this month.
MF?
Yes
LFG me in two years hopefully
My guy it's not a good thing
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9am - 10pm weekdays with Friday earlier at 7-8pm. Add about 10 hours consistently over the weekend. That is if you want to draw the average.
Eat at the desk both lunch and dinner so that is about 70 hours per week. Very little downtime or variation. Could be better could be worse, MF PE in a sweaty group, think Tech or Business Services
9am hard start to post midnight on most days. Not unusual to hit 2am plus Monday through Thursday. What I don’t think people understand is that these hours are way more intense than banking. You are expected to lead calls and push stuff forward on your own as an associate. I basically can’t start on any comment turning / modeling until 5-6 pm because the days are so jam packed with calls and running down random bullshit.
Shit is so exhausting lol. Even if I get off at 8pm which is rare, I am so drained and can’t bring myself to go get drinks with friends or hit the gym.
At a NYC MF for what it’s worth. Hope it pays off eventually
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