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Worked in MO for a year. Some of my roles were literally 9-5. The whole team would be gone by 5:30 at the latest. I still have some friends in that area. Some work 9-5/8:30-4:30 (with realistically more like 20-30 hours of actual "work" per week). Others who are in what you would imagine is a traditional 9-5 actually end up having some "later" nights (8-9) and occasional but rare weekend work. I've noticed that the close you sit to the FO the more variable your hours are.
Interned in back office a few years back. Had maybe 30 minutes to an hour of real, actual work per day unless something was blowing up. It was the same with the full-time workers too. Get there at 7:30 and then have sporadic or ah-hoc things come up for the morning. Then fuck off from 11-3PM, then EoD stuff needed to get closed and final reports needed to get done. It was a ghost town after 4pm every day unless you got stuck on the nightly duties. Monthly/Quarterly/Year-end stuff is a different story, but it's almost always a ghost town after 4.
The vast majority of the population works 9-5.
Some of my friends are in the following fields and their hours are as follows:
Nursing: Strict Shifts Overtime at 40 hrs
Government: Leave at 5 everyday and has Fridays off
FP&A: Works really hard hours are probably 60 a week. Could probably cut back and still be fine. But has time to go to the gym at lunch every day
Construction: Pretty Strict Shift hours
Wealth management: Hours are what he makes them
IT Consulting: works probably 60 hrs a week pretty variable
Buyside Credit Fund: Hours are IB
Hedge fund trader: Works hard, Don't know what hours are exactly Best guess is 60 and has market holidays off
You should try corporate life. Only have to do 30 hours a week of actual work. Spend the rest going for lunch, getting coffee, and coming in late. You and your spouse each bring home 120k a year each and you live a great life.
Can I PM you? I am ready to make this shift... lol or rage quit is more and more on the table every day
Sure, but I don't know how much help I’ll be.
The admin & back office people in my firm coming in at 9am and leave by 5pm on the dot...
Do you not see these folks in your firm?
Sometimes less. If you're a great salesman at a corporation, you can meet your quota for the year and take the rest of it off. Imagine that.
Most high revenue generators always do what they want.
I moved to a corporate role and the people there turned out to be bigger hardos than my ASOs and VPs in my banking group. The hours/stress was slightly better on the whole, but it wasn’t the WLB promise land you would think. The people in lesser support roles also worked pretty hard, relatively speaking. These are people in their 30s with young kids making less than first year analysts. While my experience is necessarily representative, it really put things into perspective for me.
I spent a short time in corporate and this was my experience as well.
hours not noticeably better since you end up picking up the slack for other people.
no clue why people would work nights or weekends in corporate for less than a first year analyst
Work in corporate finance and generally it's 9-5, besides days we send out weekly reporting we may work til 6 or 7, but we usually take care of those during the workday. For the most part, I'm just chillin watching youtube or twitch streams since it's easy to take care of your actual work lol
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