Second year associate and the best thing I’ve learned so far: don’t over promise and be realistic about the amount of time something will take you to finish.

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Like no sense killing yourself for an implied deadline when there’s probably more time to get it finished anyways and you know it’s not going to be reviewed for days..

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Around that level, when I was starting to be more in charge of ETCs, I had an internal idea of how long it would take to do something. When asked for an ETC, I normally doubled that time and it was fairly accurate. While I'm better now, I still try to operate with an under promise and over deliver mindset

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Preach! Except, every time I tried to do that it got completely shut down and I was pressured into unrealistic deadlines and deliverables.

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You are right, am killing myself for nothing here... Thanks for the reminder!

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Yeah ^ pwc1 so did you tell your teams their ETC is inaccurate? How did they respond?

Seems to be a common theme..

I think it’s great that you’re owning it, learning how to be responsible about promises and managing your commitments!

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