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?

 
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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. 

 

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