Quote: (05-14-2013 02:54 AM)se7en Wrote:
Westcoast - How did that affect your health? How can you do 120 hours a week for three years? Fuck man..
Nah it's not 120 hours a week every week. It's more like 80-90 if you are good (means they need you and want to promote you). However when it is busy you definitely crank out 120+. The worst week I had I didn't go home for the whole week showering at the office and sleeping in the baby feeding room. (Bigger lol if you think that the maternity room will ever really be used appropriately, compliance is retarded, you get prego goodbye to your job, vacations are certainly not allowed at the low end).
My health went to shit obviously. I developed excema, vitamin D deficiency and had constant nose bleeds for months.
The thing is I look younger today than. I did in college. Resting heart rate under 50, perfect health.
You work insanely hard, then ride the wave off your previous hard work. That's the trick to life in general. Once you have forward momentum it gets easier. To give you an idea 90% of my hiring class got fired or quit by year 2. 8 times out of ten the dorks who say they just "didn't like it" just didn't hack it. No one turns down an Analyst to Associate promote without an MBA because that is turning down a 100% pay raise with less hours with no debt.
Still serious LOL's at anyone who thinks we steal for a living or are lazy. This is why we hire ex-marines and ex-athletes, because those are the ones willing to go through the pain.
The best is when you get chewed out by a VP after 48 hours of straight work because one of the comp tables has a formatting error, that's when you know the VP sucks and you should throw him/her under the bus and get ready for that promotion though
Today my hours are a complete joke now. No all nighters and no long days. Just annoying travel with red eyes here and there.