Back when I posted my representative Week In The Life Of An Investment Banking Analyst, I skipped Saturday and figured no one would notice (or just assume that we don’t work on Saturdays).
However, I’ve received an unprecedented number of comments and emails inquiring about “what happened to Saturday”, so I went back to my journal [...]

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Back when I wrote that Friday at 4 PM is the worst time to be an investment banker, I wasn’t joking.  Mondays and Fridays tend to be the worst because of all the last-minute surprises, though in this case my Friday surprise arrived earlier than 4 PM.
7:30 AM - Wake up late for 8:30 AM meeting [...]

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I could have called this one “The Slow Day” and it would have been more accurate. This is just about the slowest day you can have in investment banking and still call yourself a banker.
9 AM - Head in. I’ve been here for awhile now so I’ve long since stopped caring about being [...]

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