Safe to quit my Analyst role?

My future PE firm has reconfirmed our start date plans since COVID. I know it's normally for analysts to have a break in the track and take the summer off before starting their PE Associate gig.

I can't help but shake the feeling that I shouldn't risk it in case my future PE firm cancels last minute. At the same time, I'm super burned out - my current firm has had us working every single weekend, 100 hour weeks, the past month straight, with no break. I'm losing it.

Thoughts?

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Funds give analysts offers with the understanding that they will stay and be trained for the full two-year period. Regardless if you feel like you’ve already learned everything you will learn or if you’re burned out, I think it would be a bad look if you show up and your peers/seniors find out, and it is very difficult to turn your reputation around (good or bad).

 

This is not the exact issue - even Associate 1s currently there that I've talked to have said you can take a couple months off before starting and that's par for the course.

The issue is around: while they have reconfirmed they are still planning on same start date, I wonder if I have anything to worry about on the reneg front or if anyone has heard of PE firms thinking about cancelling start classes.

 

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