Realistically speaking, what does a successful end to busy season look like?

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A huge party at the managing partners house with a lavish spread. You get driven there and home so you can drink whatever you want from the partner’s wine cellar and bar.. Everyone gets huge thank you‘s and they write bonus checks for you on the spot. Then you are told to take the month of May off fully paid to rest and recoup.

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The checks and the month off aren’t true; although honestly if I was in charge the checks would be. The month off; it used to sort of be thy way. We didn’t have the endless busy season so people would “show up” for a couple of hours but there wasn’t anything to really do. So it was basically a month off and everyone was fine with that

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Quitting

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