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Couldn’t handle the daily soul crushing and feeling useless to myself and the world. Felt I could do so many better things in life if I were to put in these many hours and energy. Money was what keeping me there but I realised that money should hopefully come if things will fall in place.
Constant work pressure.
This particular anecdote stood out. I was an EM on a large scale transformation while my wife and I were expecting a baby. That day I was in the delivery room with my wife who was in labor. I answered Partner and client emails up until few minutes before the baby was born even though I was on PTO that day. I kind of felt guilty of not being ‘present’ in the moment with my wife. I was recounting this tale to my ED (a female AP) a few weeks later when said she had done PS over zoom while in the delivery room up until few minutes before her contractions had started - kind of implying what I did was nothing compared to her. Perhaps she was correct. And that made me realize at the firm there is no dearth of highly driven and extremely smart people whom I could likely never outcompete. Then, suddenly that year, opt-out packages were offered to 3rd year EM and APs, and being in good standing, I decided to avail them! This incident was at the top of my mind when I made the decision.
Sometimes, I do miss the firm and consulting life - the constant mental stimulation, highly motivated go-getter teams, unheard of insurance benefits, higher cash comp and the McKinsey prestige. Then I think of what good it would all be if I don’t have time for my loved ones and myself. And I feel happy about the decision I made.
Recently got married and realized that I could barely have an uninterrupted dinner with my husband. Constant pings, everything seemingly urgent and on fire, etc. Didn’t want to limit living my life to just weekends (during which I was too tired from the week to do anything anyway)
Felt I couldn’t cope with work or life unless all things outside of work were going smoothly. As soon as anything turbulent happened outside of work, everything would kind of collapse
(The previously undiagnosed ADHD did NOT help lol)