Looking for some perspective. 1 YOE, 23 years old. Life at ZS is pretty chill right now. Good pay, good mental health, interesting projects, good WLB. Have a T2 offer for better pay and better exit ops for what I want to eventually exit to (private equity/life science investment positions). I’m now staring down the barrel of 70 hour work weeks and starting to get cold feet. What would you do?

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If 70 hour weeks give you cold feet… you’re not going to like deal team PE roles.

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This is the right answer. If you want those exits, it’s 70+ hours forever not just for a few years.

If you want those exits, you will have to do those hours eventually. Now’s the time at your age IMO.

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Good point thank you

Put your big girl panties on and do it. You’ll always wonder what if if you don’t experience it first hand.

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I needed to hear this myself

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Do it now, you can always switch out.

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This is the time to put in the hours. LEK is better than ZS for exits but PE is still a longshot. If you're willing to put in the work and are serious about buyside better to get into an investment banking analyst program.

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If this is LEK, 70 hours is not the norm whatsoever. That’s one or two weeks in a year type of thing. You would need to work until 11pm every single day. In reality you have out by six and early Fridays…

@OP exit ops are definitely better at LEK than ZS though especially if you're considering investment/BD roles

One consideration is a lot of life science investing roles require advanced degrees unfortunately:( Most people I know in the LS investing space have a PhD or MD since you really need to understand science behind the assets you're looking at if they're preclinical or in clinical trials

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