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It’s a skill you acquire: prioritize, say no when necessary, plan your work leaving space for other important things. If you do not learn to do all this and be successful - look for the exit. Although truth be told it’s not like you can work without it anywhere else.
Exit
Delegate and be strategic about what work you sign up for.
You have to define what you’re willing to give/do. If you say “I’m going to do this (insert easier way to do something)” that’s probably fine — but if you offer the super time consuming way, they’ll often choose it. Push back and own your own destiny!!
You do consulting during a pandemic.
Agree with P1... I came to EY from industry.. still early days for me but it's not a whole lot different.. time mgmt is key... ultimately you have to protect your personal time... gets easier in my experience once you're on a client project and off unpredictable internal bd stuff...
Pro
Public sector
I am entering year 2 (associate) if that matters
Public sector. I work 45 hours average. Worst week ever was like 60 hours. Sometimes I can get away with only working 30 hours if the week before I put in a lot of work
As an associate you shouldn't be running into this issue. I do nothing except client work, and never give up weekends or evenings unless it's absolutely critical for a deadline. No BD, no BRG's, nothing that isn't actual billable work. That's for managers and above who are being paid to give up some personal time to hit revenue requirements.
I also take off like 6 weeks throughout the year. If you don't have a work life balance it's because someone is suckering you OR you're just on one of those really bad WLB projects that also makes you eat hours.