#CareerJourney #WorkLifeBalance #PostCollegeOptions
Hey there! 🌟 I’ve got a question for you: What’s your job title and how does it fit into your day-to-day life? I’m really interested in hearing about your experiences and insights as I think about my career options after college. 🎓
Let’s break it down a bit:
– **What’s your job title?** 🏢
– **How many years of experience do you have in your field?** ⏳
– **What’s the pay like?** 💰
– **How many hours do you typically work each week?** ⏰
– **And finally, what’s your quality of life or work-life balance?** 🌈
I’m all ears for any tips or advice you might have! Your input could be super helpful for someone like me who’s trying to navigate the post-college career landscape.
Do you have a favorite part of your job that keeps you motivated? Or maybe a challenge that you’ve learned to overcome? Let’s chat! 😊
Thanks in advance for sharing!
Trader, $150k plus uncapped bonus, 45-50, good work life balance if you can handle volatility
Associate – 65k€ (Europe!) – 10hours per week- I don’t think I need to elaborate more here
– Head of a sub department in Risk Management
– 11 Years of experience. 5 in Risk.
– 300k all in ($176k base, 44k bonus, 80k long term incentive paid as cash).
– 35-45 Hours a week
– Pretty good work life balance. When I’m at work I work, but when I’m off, I’m off. Never work weekends. 34 Days PTO and 10 Holidays a year and I’m encouraged to take all my PTO. 2 month paid sabbatical every 10 years with the company. Travel a few times a year to London or Bermuda.
1. Credit Trader
2. 8 years, 4 of which in trading
3. 7 figures
4. 50-60 hours per week
5. Tough work life balance, especially with my exact role. Always on call, help on lots of global initiatives that require wonky hours.
Associate Program Director
1.5Y
65k
At work is 40, realistically maybe 20 hours of work
Quality of life was getting bad. Work life balance was even worse as most my work would come up 10 mins before 5pm. Actually submitted my resignation few days ago.
1. Investment research analyst at big asset manager (think Fidelity/State Street/Blackrock)
2. 1 YOE, got this straight out of college
3. 90k + ~18k bonus (depends on company performance and personal performance)
4. In the office ~40 hours a week, work like ~30 hours. Other time spent reading the news, chilling, taking a long lunch break. When it’s busy, it’s very busy and I work 45 hours for real.
5. I think work life balance is very good. I don’t work weekends (some of my colleagues do, depending on their desk) and rarely work late. When I’m on PTO I’m totally gone but again this is dependent on your team.
1. Commercial banking RM
2. 7 YOE
3. 120k-150k total comp (this is Canadian dollars)
4. 30-40 hours a week (it’s even better if you’re an analyst, legit had some 15-20 hour work weeks occasionally with very slow deal flow)
5. QoL is insane because I can work a few days at the office/on the road and a few days at home. My weekly work hours are quite light. I can go home and have enough time to work on a project every night. If I had kids, I could pick them up from school every day, it’s what my older collagues do. Weekends are entirely free. I almost have a month of vacation days every year. Good stuff, highly recommend this career for anyone seeking a relatively relaxing career.
1) financial analyst, corporate FP&A
2) 3 years of full time experience
3) $80k HCOL
4) 30ish. Sometimes 20 mid month when it’s slow ans sometimes 50 during close. It’s very chill
5) quality of life at my current job is quite good. Small company so folks are chill and nobody acts like we’re going to kill someone when we just spend all day in excel. The people at my last job drank the kool aid bigtime so my W/L balance was awful. I was on call 24/7 and worked like 80 hour weeks for $70k HCOL. Not worth it at all. FP&A is hit or miss but it’s the chillest financial job out there and still pays decently
1. MD in IB
2. 12+ YOE
3. $300K base + performance based bonus (TC: $1 – $2M+)
4. 50 – 60ish hours per week
5. QOL is pretty high – can afford to do anything we want and have anyone we need help around the house. WLB is less so – always juggling work, kids / family and trying to squeeze in personal time (where possible). Tied to a phone / email always (with expected pretty quick response times as it relates to clients). And unlike others where people work far fewer hours than they report, these 50 – 60-ish hours are all spent either working, on calls, answering emails or traveling.
1. Underwriting at multi-national carrier
2. <1 (just graduated)
3. 75k base 4k bonus MCOL
4. Still training but like 30ish
5. Great work life balance. WFH 3 days a week, never contacted out of work hours, work is not mentally taxing. Only “tough” part is travel. Fair amount of travel and every 2 months flying somewhere for a week. Good for someone without a family.
Fixed Asset Accountant In Entertainment Industry
-85K all in $67,500 + Around $17K Bonus
-One Year Work Experience in Fixed Asset Accounting
-40 hours per week – Actual work 20-30 during slow weeks but during close I can work up to 45hr
-I love the flexibility of my job and the company that I work at. Work life balance is great – essentially just get your work done and you can kinda do whatever.
1. analyst at investment manager
2. 1.5 YOE
3. 90k + 10k bonus
4. 35-40 hours per week
5. in-office culture. rarely work outside of standard 9-5 work hours due to my role being more support vs client-facing. amazing benefits. I want to get a role directly generating revenue but this is what I could land after about 4 months/100 applications. What worked for me is messaging people at the company on Linkedin as soon as or just before you apply online, so you increase your chance of hiring manager seeing your resume and knowing what to emphasize in your interviews.
1. Corporate Strategy Analyst
2. 1YOE (prior internship)
3. 115k TC MCOL
4. 30/week
5. Hybrid, going in basically optional. Very light.