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How do people recover from prolong sleep deprivation?
As the title says, how does one recover from sleep deprivation? I know some of you guys work grueling and long hours and likely don't get much sleep. How do you stay awake, alive and feel refreshed? Is it drinking lots of water? Lots of sex? What do you people honestly do to keep your head straight...
Single Mothers and sleep deprivation
Hi there, I am conduct research on sleep and would like to get feedback from single mothers. Now I know that with a newborn it is impossible to get a full night of sleep, but I am wondering how common it is for single mothers with older children to still experience chronic sleep deprivation and low...
How honest to be in end of year conversation with manager?
Work in fixed income research at a BB in NYC. Have my end of the year end conversation coming up with my manager and mostly likely their boss will be present to talk about my performance and bonus. There have been several memorable nights where my manager had me working until 3am to publish reports...
Finance Burnout or Just Burnout?
To say it lightly, it's been a difficult year for everyone. I've been working away trying to block the lingering uncertainty with additional effort at work and daily CFA study sessions. Lately, I haven't been able to escape from work- thinking about complex problems that I was unable to solve at...
Problems with sleep when coming home late
Hi guys, I noticed that this topic was discussed before but after yet another restless night, I thought I would ask anyway. Came home last night at 3am (2am the day before) but couldn't fall asleep until 4.30am because I couldn't stop thinking about stuff like: (1) Did i incorporate all the...
The All-Nighter Experiment: What Worked and What Didn't
I need this done for tomorrow morning, but don’t spend too much time on it. I don’t want you to be here all night. That's what my MD said to me before I pulled my first all-nighter. I've had other all-nighters since then, but you always remember your first. I was a lowly analyst in my second...
I just went 3 days without sleep to see what i-banking felt like...honestly I don't believe ANY of you! (My hourly breakdown)
No, this is not a joke. So we've all heard from multiple sources that the typical first-year analyst's day goes from 6AM through 3AM, leaving about 3 hours of sleep in-between. Many of you still even had chances to work out. So I tried to emulate the exact mental and physical strain to see what it...
Stimulants 101: How to wake yourself up and get shit done (without destroying your long-term health)
If you're reading this, I'm assuming you take a shit load of stimulants to stay awake and get work done. It's the only option on those days where you've been grinding through mind-numbing Excel for 8 hours and your brain is turning to mush. When you've been getting crushed for weeks and barely...
Money Never Sleeps... But Should You?
Summary: The recent Time post titled "30 Crazy Things You Didn't Know About Sleep" (see http://time.com/70415/30-crazy-sleep-facts/) citing an advertisement from Sleepy's mattress retailer got me pondering about sleep, deprivation, and efficiency. I am consistently over-committing myself, as well as...
All nighters lead to brain damage?
If I had known this, I may have taken a different career path back in the day. http://www.cnn.com/2014/03/19/health/sleep-loss-brain-damage/index.html…
Mastering the 100-hour work week - for females
When I have 100-hr work weeks, I have one thing in mind: maximizing sleep. I've had lots of busy weeks like this, unfortunately, and I've perfected a routine that helps gets me through. From the outside, it appears as through I've had a full night of sleep and ample time to get ready. My morning...
Top 10 Ways to Avoid Work from Your Staffer as an Investment Banking Analyst
10. Send you phone straight to Voicemail so that you can screen your calls 9. Pay your assistant so she screens your calls and says you are in a meeting -- pay her bonus to make her comment how stressed you look and how hectic your week has been 8. If you leave the office by 9pm, save an e-mail that...
First 80+ hour week. Wasn't as bad as I thought it would be...
Sunday: 10am - 9pm .... 11hrs Monday: 8am-10pm ....14 hrs Tuesday: 8am - 10pm .... 14hrs Wednesday: 7am - 1am .... 18hrs Thursday: 7am - 11:30pm .... 16.5hrs Friday: 7am - 7pm (hopefully) .... 12 hrs Grand total: 85.5 hrs. Really wasn't that bad.
Lack of sleep linked to early death
Besides being miserable from lack of sleep, now we can all look forward to an increased risk of death. Anybody worried? http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20100505/hl_afp/healt… Didn't think so.
It's 5am, how many analysts/associates are still awake?
Post if you're at work still, just curious how many analysts/associates are up this late working on a random night.
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