Someone walk me through a typical day / week as an IB associate. Understand there’s a lot of hours, but are you actually working non stop or are you just expected to respond and fix things at any given hour?

Are you always jamming or waiting around to fix things coming from above and various parties

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Don’t do it unless you wanna work like a dog. And yes.

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There are days/weeks where you are jamming seemingly non-stop. There are also days/weeks where you are pretty slow, but you are still expected to be available at any time.

There are days I haven’t been able to eat a meal and days where I’ve been out and just leave my phone on loud in case a random request comes through.

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You will hear reference to “off the shelf slides” which are slides that are used repetitively. They still require work to market update and add or remove content. Outside of that, there is a ton of unique work to be done with each deal as every transaction is different. Most slides are hand made.

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Yes

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FDD/TAS

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I’m in TAS now but not at A&M so the $ ain’t be hittin

It’s not worth it, there’s better paying careers, with much better hours.

What other jobs are paying that much for someone without IB experience

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