“Because everyone demands instant gratification and instant connectivity,” says Goldman Sachs investment banker David Solomon, “there are no boundaries, no breaks.”
Which translates into ridiculous hours.
For the record, there are 168 hours in week. Some Wall Street folk put 120 hours of them into their jobs. As New Yorker writer James Surowiecki explains, it goes beyond finance. In 2008 Harvard Business School did a survey asking after the hours of a thousand professionals: 94% of them worked 50 hours or more per week, while almost half topped 65 hours.
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