Why do you think finance has normalized late nights so much? A friend in another industry asked me that recently, and I honestly didn’t have a good answer. Somewhere along the way, it just started feeling like part of the job and something people are expected to accept without really questioning it. Curious whether others think that’s just the reality of the industry, or more of a culture problem we’ve all gotten used to.

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Deadlines are everything. I feel like they get tighter and tighter.

Totally, deadlines drive a lot of it. But at the same time, plenty of other industries have deadlines too, and I don’t hear them normalize long hours nearly as much as finance does.

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