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I work on Wall Street in one of the large investment banking firms and it's tough. Really tough. Super tough. I have never seen so much yelling and screaming and big egos and long hours anyplace else I have worked ever. The hours people put in and the demands that are put on them.
We all work at least 70 hours a week and the young hot shots work over 100 hours.
Is there anyplace tougher to work than Wall Street?
Well, residents in hospitals also work long hours, the difference is, they feel like they are doing something meaningful as opposed to the paper pushing and number crunching that kills one's soul on Wall Street, so to answer your question, it is certainly a very, very tough place to work for, but when compared to Chilean miners, it's a picnic. The higher you are on the Street, the fewer hours you work, or, you gain valuable experience and get out, go someplace that pays maybe a bit less but has an amazing work life balance.
Very farm from it. As babysladkaya pointed out you could be working in a mine, coughing your lungs out with silicosis. You could be picking tomatoes from before dawn until sunset in 100F heat. The safety of hundreds, thousands, or even millions of people can be in your hands. Easy to come up with a multitude of examples of jobs that are more physically or emotionally demanding, or entail much much greater responsibilities.
Those bad work-life balance things (white-collar version) can also be found among Hill staffers in Washington, associates at big corporate law firms in DC, NYC, and other alpha cities, at lots of tech shops in Silicon Valley, and as someone already mentioned, for hospital residencies.
I work on Wall Street in one of the large investment banking firms and it's tough. Really tough. Super tough. I have never seen so much yelling and screaming and big egos and long hours anyplace else I have worked ever. The hours people put in and the demands that are put on them.
We all work at least 70 hours a week and the young hot shots work over 100 hours.
Is there anyplace tougher to work than Wall Street?
I want to make sure I understand the question. Are you asking whether there could possibly be anything tougher than working in a prestigious high-power job at a prestigious location in what's essentially a comfortable office environment (air conditioning, etc.) with lucrative salaries and the possibility of a golden future?
Well, yeah. For instance, from what I've read, working in chicken slaughterhouses in the south, where you wade in blood, at minimum wage with repetitive stress injuries is probably a bit worse.
I work on Wall Street in one of the large investment banking firms and it's tough. Really tough. Super tough. I have never seen so much yelling and screaming and big egos and long hours anyplace else I have worked ever. The hours people put in and the demands that are put on them.
We all work at least 70 hours a week and the young hot shots work over 100 hours.
Is there anyplace tougher to work than Wall Street?
I'd disagree for two reasons. First of all it's not manual labor. Second, the $$$ you make and the type of partying (aka models & bottles or hookers & blow depending on your taste) you can do with it is on another level (at least for addictive personalities, probably doesn't get much better ). Probably not sustainable forever though.
Full disclosure: I do not work on Wall Street, but I know folks that are high level consultants that have worked extensively with firms on the Street including Goldman Sachs.
I actually work in the white collar part of the manufacturing sector in the Midwest. I visit NYC relatively frequently to catch up with old friends from the East Coast, however. I'm based in Chicago (soon Metro Detroit).
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). Probably not sustainable forever though.
