Christmas confessions: How many of you actually work 40 hours? Like actual productive 40 hours or more? I kept hearing stories like MBB working more than 50-60 hours. But how? What work?

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Let’s say 55-65. Most of that’s productive (client meetings, working on models/slide decks, working with the team). Usually break 30m for lunch each day and sign off for an hour or two for dinner/gym.

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Yes, I almost never have time to eat. I easily work 12-15 hours a day, and should do more at night to catch up but have to balance gym and sleep, too. It’s due to back to back meetings, managing information up and down the chain, reviewing work and coaching people, and building relationships with people I need to be an effective leader for my team and clients. It’s intense because things are constantly changing. But I love it.

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Demanding clients, oversold projects, understaffed projects, etc.

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Fractional Staffing

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Yes. Regularly 65-70+ hours, with minimal amount of it idle (I’m lucky if I get 30 min for lunch - definitely can’t pull that off every day). That’s the expected work load / pace.

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Sounds awesome.

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65+ hours? Sounds like hell

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Yeah 65+. Barely any time for lunch. Lots of moving pieces, client demands, training and developing team members

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How do you not of 40 hours of actual head down work?

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How do you ever have time to pursue a personal interest, study for a professional exam, apply for grad school, date, etc. (Essentially have a personal life) with all theses hours?

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Bain 1 - I’d think you have to work weekends in most cases given the hours posted here

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60-70h per week is about right as average. Sone weeks go to 75-90h, very rarely below 55h. I sleep 6h, Mon-Wed is heads down 14-17h almost always. Thu is probably 10-14h depending on how the project is going as I try to close when I get back home. Fridays 6-10h depending on how much recruiting/training/office stuff... and some weekends (not many) I put some hours here and there. I’m a Principal and I think it is very hard (not impossible though) to make it to Partner without something similar to the above.

If you are an A/C that don’t want to do this for the long term and you are fine being average performer, then 50-60h is very doable and you can stick around for ~2-4 years

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I have definitely had weeks where I only did 30-35 hours of work and was flying/on reddit/at Starbucks the rest of normal working hours.

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Depends. Some projects have been definitely rough, the one I just got off of I did like 20 hours of actual work a week. Just gotta take it as it comes.

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This might be too late but just throwing it out there. Can someone describe how a 12-14 hours day looks like? It just doesn’t seem healthy or doable if you account in 6-8 hours of nap, commute, shower, eating breakfast/lunch/dinner (daily essentials) etc. I understand that there are room for multitask but in reality they are never efficient.

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Don’t nap and eat while you work. That leaves getting ready, commute, and sleep

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I wake up at 5:45 do a class 6-7, get ready and arrive at office by 8. Work until 8pm doing the things I described above then either get dinner/drinks with an important contact or client to trade information/strategize/ build the relationship OR I go to the hotel, hit the gym for 30 mins and do emails/catch up. I go to bed around 11.

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Define productive hours.

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I got rolled off my project recently but was kept in the background for 20 hours/week. People stopped emailing me and I didn’t have to participate in most meetings. I thought I’d find a bunch of extra free time but I didn’t not. This told me that I probably do 15-20 hours of actual work per week under normal circumstances

^what, K1..?? That’s a problem. I have literally worked 55-65 hours a week on every engagement productively along with my team.

I think youll find this hustle in any B4 firm too - it’s just more common at MBB given the caliber of people and likelihood of high visibility work.

To be honest how is it possible to work over 65+ hours a week possible without adderal?

^ well said. and quite frankly even though the hours posted here are the norm for MBB, they shouldn't be. the best teams and cases I've worked on are where we think first, plan efficiently, and manage scope and the job becomes far more sustainable. but there are simply too many people for whom these types of hours and stress are normal or even enjoyable - we all recognize that you shouldn't have to work 80 hours, but then you insidiously are conditioned to think a stressful 60-65 is something to be thankful for (BCG here)

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Regularly 60-70. Have also had projects that were maybe 10-20. It all depends

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