Is it a career killer if I quit in the middle of a very intense diligence cycle that I am leading? The M&A world isn’t very big but I’m a team of one and this shit doesn’t seem worth it

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Leave. Life is short, choose happiness

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Prioritize yourself, your family if that applies. No one will know other than those involved. Or come up with some excuse.

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no, take off
won’t even remember your name by next week

The problem is there's not usually an end when you do well. My personal experience is I would lead a diligence then, because its going well, I'd get staffed on another one towards the "end". But then deal 1 scope got expanded so I was just staffed on two. This went on for well over a year until I finally threw my hands up (was staffed on 3 diligences at the time) and went on a LOA.

Its one of those things where some of the people I worked with really respected the value I brought when I did work and others tried to take it out on me with poor evals but then made a big hubbub when I wouldn't work with them when I came back. The people who matter know. I doubt you got in this scenario without there being a layer of trust. Do whats right for you even if it "burns" bridges with toxic people.

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