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You know your work life balance is bad when ...

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When the hotel in the client city sends you a Christmas card

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Actually: when they send you a Christmas present to your home address and you recognise the odor of the hotel

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When you take out your computer in the waiting room at urgent care.

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Was laying on a gurney in the ER after what I thought was a heart attack (flase alarm) got my laptop out waiting to be discharged. Nurse saw me and was like WTF are you doing.

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Here I’ll go first: ..when your dog doesn’t know you

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😢

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What is this "life" you're talking about? Is there an engagement code for that? 🙄

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You overhear your daughter playing with the family in her dollhouse, and the first thing she does with the daddy is make him leave the dollhouse to “catch a flight”

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Wow my heart just threw up a little

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when instead of home keys you try using hotel key to get in your house.. 🤦‍♀️.. it happened to me for real. Adding to this when you can’t remember your home address while ordering uber as you have been out of town for more than a month and just remember hotel names. 🤦‍♀️

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I’ve gotten into my condo elevator and typed the floor I was in at the hotel ....

When the doorman at your NYC building doesn’t know you and when you answer “I’m Jen’s husband in apt xx”, he replies “Jen doesn’t have a husband” and calls upstairs to confirm who I am

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This happened to me over the holiday when our poor doorman had no idea there are women consultants. He thought my husband was an independently wealthy single parent.

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When you are in consulting

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Yes

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You make slides drunk from a Vegas hotel while on PTO...

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I so hope you threw in a couple Vegas Easter eggs

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This thread is the reason I’m quitting

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This comment of mine really blew up 😂😂

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When you use the acronym WLB

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When you moved into your apartment in august and still don’t know the names of the surrounding blocks

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At home, you pick up the phone on your nightstand to order room service.

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We still have a POTS line for two reasons:

1) When our kids were young, my wife did not want to give up real 911 service where they would reliably know our location.

2) Now she works from home and does conference calls and webinars regularly, and does not trust the quality of VoIP or cell service.

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True story: I took my kids to a Halloween party. When we arrived I got a “quick question” call from the client. We all stayed in the car for the next hour. Happy Halloween kids!

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Got a call from a partner in China while at a New Years Eve party at about 11:30. I wasn’t on on the project just advising.

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When you spend time in the client bathroom commenting on Fishbowl.

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I’m currently using my bathroom breaks to run in place for a couple of minutes to get me steps in. Gotta sit and ppt for 12 hours and still be healthy. 🙄😬🤫

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When you have to put your local grocery store in google maps because you forgot where it was

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Shit guys, all these posts about health issues: please take care of yourself

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When you have to block time on your calendar to use the bathroom

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When you WFH in west cost (to take care if few personal things that involve visiting govt offices before 5:00 pm) but have client in east coast and you dial into the call before brushing, 5:00 am. You also can’t log off early because now that the client is gone, your east coast team hogs all your time well into the evening. Nothing on that to-do gets done.

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When ordering an Uber home in your home city and you manually enter your hotel address.

When you get into your hotel room late Sunday night, settle into bed, think “ahhh..I’m home” and immediately go through the following progression upon realization: ..😴.........😳.....😱...🤯....🤦🏼‍♀️

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when you wake up in a hotel room and forget what city you are in

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Has happened a few times. It can be a terrifying feeling of WTAF am I??

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Has anyone ever had any luck applying for a hybrid job and convincing them to let you work fully remote? I'm seeing a lot of hybrid postings for my role but not a lot of fully remote ones.

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Anyone else still trying to squeeze in their GMAT before R1 and as exhausted as me? 😰

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What do you actually want out of your career in Big Law? What's your end goal for your career and for your impact on the field?

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They say there's no elevator, you have to take the stairs but I wonder if you can take more then one step at a time? 🤔

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What's the average age on this thing. Just wondering. I'm 23

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Feeling really burnt out, on H1B. Can't just take a break from work, also no utilization in this environment is detrimental. What can I do?

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Has anyone heard of google APMM program? I was contacted by a recruiter. I can’t find the start date online?

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PwC: for those laid off, how much does Cobra cost for us? Or can someone point me in the right direction? Only have 2 days to transfer 401k, wealth builder, and insurance/etc so scrambling now

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Is PLN 22,000 per month salary is good to survive and save some money with family in Poland?

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matched with a senior manager at my firm on tinder, really been really hitting it off well. should i ask for a charge code for this? need more utilization

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How long is a clearance active if you are not billing to a clearance required contract?

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Does anyone at Deloitte GPS like their job? Please share some positives before I hit accept...

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How much are you guys paying for tax preparation and filing?

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I’m so depressed, have been for years, and don’t see it getting better. I’ve tried everything from therapy, exercise, psychiatry, journaling, self help books, healthy diet, etc. what else is there?

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How do you assert dominance to a client and persuade them your work is legit/correct when they aren't willing to take the time to read it? 23yrold.

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Was feeling interior seeing all the partners' LinkedIn profile pictures showing a bunch of people my age until I realized they just haven't updated it since they started

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All these low key flex IG snaps like “At Game 7 of the World Series guys” like bruh you just dropped $1k for that snap 🤯

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Got an offer at LinkedIn for twice my consultant salary 1 year out of school. What are some pros and cons of going into industry this early?

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