I don't do any work at work - Page 5

beh, when on travel i work like a dog (gotta look billable!), so back at the office is just to maintain balance!

I put a bunch of shit on shelves today. I also went ~10 hours without internet. Crazier yet, I did the exact same thing yesterday. This isn't the American Dream.

Sometimes I get done a ton of work in just a couple hours, the same amount of work it would take most people (in my company - everyone on SF is a stud) several days to do. Unfortunately, I bill hourly, but end up with a lot of time to practice music. If there's a project that requires a lot of cooks in the kitchen, my time can get eaten up quickly doing mundane revisions to the same shit over and over - I consider this a waste of time, but since I bill hourly, I'm not complaining.

Work sucks unless you love it.

You realize this works out to an average of 14 hour days, 7 days a week, for the entire month right? That sounds pretty excessive. I don't think i-bankers even pull those hours.

It was excessive, but necessary. It's easy to hit those numbers when you stay for 30 hours straight a couple times a month, and I did work 7 days a week. :P This all happened soon after I had taken the job and before I had a chance to orient myself with all the systems. We had a couple major hardware failures and a malicious "hacker" (actually an insider with access that wanted my job) that deleted data within a 2 week period, so I just put in a ton of hours to a) put out fires b) plug the security leaks and c) get oriented quickly so that we could address all the other issues of poorly maintained systems. The previous guy didn't have appropriate security in place and the hardware hadn't been updated since the company was formed, so it had been building for years. It was pretty much a nightmare scenario. I made them give me a real budget and we have all new hardware and appropriate monitoring of all the systems now. We finished all the upgrades at the end of 2008. Plus, I have better help now (people i've had time to train myself). For most of the past year i've rarely worked more than 60hrs/wk and it's most often closer to 40. All of my big projects are done now so i'm just training my replacement, documenting code, etc. I'm the most relaxed I've ever been and the new guy will have a very easy time now that all of the big changes has been taken care of.

Fuck, need a job?

If it's in networking, sure.

Damnit, sure you don't have an interest in finance?

Would it meet SF standards for fall-back jobs? It would be nice to not have to move to the Middle-East to earn 250+/yr.

What, from previous i-banking threads on here they made it sound like an 80 hour work week was practically vacation for them. Are you telling me they were exaggerating?

I think that depends on what type of banking you do and where you fall in the pecking order. I would have to say that if someone is claiming an 80 hour week is like vacation for them, they are probably pretty low on the totem pole, likely an Analyst/Associate. That's not to say that there aren't bankers that work ridiculous hours at times, but I am quite sure 400 hour months are not the norm..