Utter Utter Loser (Ned)

yeah, I kinda think I may have been able to cope with a trading job, one where I had a fairly strict 12-13 hour day and not much more can be tacked on. But in investment banking they really do lose their lives. Weekends become their one bit of free time and even then they disappear on Friday night/Saturday morning the second your blackberry goes off. Holidays apparently can be booked but there is a fair chance they won't be taken. Good money though. </BLOCKQUOTE>

Reckon you'll ever go for something like that yourself?

theis

But did it go un-noticed by the people who matter? </BLOCKQUOTE>

I haven't worked it yet, still only a few months into the job. Longest hours so far have been 3 weeks of 8.30-7.00. Which you can work fairly comfortably tbh. And it doesn't get un-noticed but it also doesn't get noticed seeing as though everyone in your team is working those hours.

TheCranker

I currently work 22.5 hrs a week and tbf it feels about right. I have plenty of time to do everything I want to do. I'm not lazy as my spare time is usually spent exercising, working on the house etc it's just that I want to do things no one wants to give me money for.

theis

yeah, I kinda think I may have been able to cope with a trading job, one where I had a fairly strict 12-13 hour day and not much more can be tacked on. But in investment banking they really do lose their lives. Weekends become their one bit of free time and even then they disappear on Friday night/Saturday morning the second your blackberry goes off. Holidays apparently can be booked but there is a fair chance they won't be taken. Good money though. </BLOCKQUOTE>

Reckon you'll ever go for something like that yourself? </BLOCKQUOTE>

Don't know yet. Have decided that as long as I pass all my exams I will stick out the three year training contract as so far I'm quite enjoying it and the money is good enough. After that three years I will have to reassess. The pay will obviously be good but it will be better elsewhere, depends on what I want to do with the rest of my life, stay in the firm and hope to rise up (partner remuneration about half a million) or move into something like banking or industry which would give me a more immediate higher salary.

Utter Utter Loser (Ned)

pretty much the same as me tbh theis. happy with things as they are now, get my head down and then look up again in three, four, five years and see if my ambition is satisfied where I am now. Great to be 21, so young, would be a different matter if I was 25 or 26 now.

Ackter

I've done 20 hours on, 12 hours off, 21 hours on, 12 hours off, 20 hours on.

That was fun.

MixitupMixitdictator

what do you do 'the cranker'

TheCranker

Work for a software house. I've done pretty much everything for them from networking to programming. Now I'm doing system specifications, training and training documentation.

Lubricated Crisp Packet

I'm working to get a position in investment banking come the end of my degree. I will be looking for divisions where the hours aren't so draining but tbh for the sheer status and wages I'd happily take up such a role if my first choice were to fail. The problem is once you're in, it's hard to get yourself out and if you're not careful you'll wake up once day and you're retired at 40 but don't remember doing anything for the past 20 years other than work.

Cesc15

As a lawyer working for a "magic circle" firm in the UK a few years back - I was doing 8am-midnight while on major projects. On signing day it could mean working around the clock (mind you I only did one 24 hour stint). Usual hours were 9am to 7pm - which was fine when I was young and single....

I wouldn't like to be doing that now.......when you get older you prefer more family and home time....