Leaving IB after a year

Started in January at a BB (off cycle hire, graduated a semester early). Liked WFH at first but now it is driving me insane, I never leave my room and expectation for being online seems especially unreasonable. I am interested in finance, but find myself hating the day to day BS of banking.

Anyone have thoughts on leaving after 1 year? Obviously not ideal but what are exit oops like after just 12 months and what’s the best way to frame it to other employers?

 
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1) make sure you don’t regret leaving banking this early. 2) you are making a good decision if you are conscious about your work/life balance 3) speak about it with your team - you don’t have to be online 24/7 - you surely have a work phone, just take it to the gym - and respond quickly to people between sets ‘will do’, ‘can call in 30mins at the gym atm’ etc, they should be pretty understanding. I am frequently having drinks (UK based so bars are open) with friends on fridays from 5 pm and just responding some will do bullshit that I will just do over the weekend as no-one will clearly look at it before sunday (learn to read through the lines what is actually urgent from what is not). 4) take lunch/dinner breaks - take 20-30mins to cook/eat and think about something else, watch an episode of a TV show you love, a summary of your football team game, facetime your friends and gossip whatever it may be to change your mind 5) try to seperate work from personnal life - if you can don’t work in your bedroom, if you have to, always work at your desk and never in your bed. 6) try to go on walks when you are on a call with seniors running through slides with the client - most of the time you end up going through Instagram anyways so you may as well leave the house, worse case senario you can always take notes from your phone.

Cannot really help wrt exits, but try to improve your life to either hang in there or until you quit. All the best

 

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