I don’t get enough sleep. This causes me to be tired and fall behind on deliverables so I lose less sleep. I’m in a vicious cycle that’s severely effecting my professional trajectory and physical health to the point where I oscillate between anxiety attacks and falling asleep at work. Can anyone else relate? How do I break this cycle? How do you set WLB boundaries?

only doing project work right now. Not in deals.
Realize this is in my control just curious how to navigate

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Take a sleep study. I ended up having sleep apnea. Had been dealing with it for a couple of years without being aware.

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How many hours are you working a week?

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Tried to do weekend work to get ahead but ended up w a lot of sunk time not sure how to press forward or add value, but don’t want to ask bc I feel like senior associates/consultants just know what to do. Separately curious about that as well

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Ask for feedback from your Manager or EM. They should be able to give good guidance on what the expectation is from you, both from a deliverable and timeline standpoint.
If you get stuck, ask for help at 30% of the timeline, don't wait until the last minute.
60 hours in three days, if done often is the fastest ticket to ER, it's just not worth it so don't do it again.

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Try working in blocks. Set a timer, work for 20 minutes, take a small break after that time and actually get up and walk around. Repeat. It sounds like you’re getting spun up in being overwhelmed by work and repeating things unnecessarily. Do a yoga session in the middle of the day. Make time to work out. You just need to make sure you’re doing something to let yourself step away. And check tasks off a list so you know you did something. Choose to step away and set boundaries now so you don’t get to a point where you crash from doing too much. Everyone will be okay even if you make some mistakes.

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How many hours a day you working? Sounds like you don’t have an off switch

Aim for 10-12. In actuality it’s 9-14. Was 18-20 hrs for past 3 days (including team dinner) to prepare for big client workshop

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I’m going to be completely honest. Sounds like a combination of you being inefficient (completely normal early on), poor boundaries, and weak time management outside of work hours. I just don’t buy that you worked 60 hours in 3 days in any efficient way

Def not efficient spend wayy too much time overthinking things back tracking and not asking questions as they come to mind. Totally realize this is all in my control to change just trying to figure out how other ppl navigate

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