September 30, 2006
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snapshot of a week
monday
10:34 am: first day at work. bright-eyed and bushy-tailed
11:04 am: meeting with staffer, assures me will be free for rest of week
12:14 pm: staffed.
1:32 pm: call from associate partner
1:46 pm: debrief with associate partner
3:00 pm: first deadline. need to a. call research department b. sort through five excel sheets c. compile four slides
3:31 pm: call with manager in london
4:23 pm: call with MD in New York
5:30 pm: meeting with associate partner to present progress
6:15 pm: sent back to completely redo slides
7:04 pm: send slides to visual production
8:32 pm: slides back. amazing!
9:15 pm: send slides to associate partner for revisiontuesday
8:45 am: conference call
9:37 am: begin doing research mentioned during conference call
10:15 am: receive research department request back (2dnd 5 page excel sheet)
noon: absolutely exhausted and terribly hungry
1:36 pm: email slides to partner
2:03 pm: irate call from partner about quality of slides
4:01 pm: finished redoing slides
4:15 pm: conference call at 4:30 rescheduled for 8:30 pm
4:45 pm: two emails containing 3 75-page analyst reports and a 64 page ppt to go through
5:31 pm: summary slides of analyst reports finally done
6:00 pm: meeting with visual production
7:00 pm: associate partner's office for 2nd conference call
8:30 pm: first time ordering from seamlessweb.com
8:34 pm: 3rd conference call
9:15 pm: google searches to investigate info from 2nd conference call
10:14 pm: first meal of the day
10:40 pm: send revised 18 slides to MD and associate partner
11:30 pm: at insistance of officemate, finally take off for homewed-thurs along similar vein
friday
4:34 am: partner from brussels sends urgent email to blackberry requesting finished ppt presentation by 9am, thus waking up in a cold sweat
6:45 am: report to office, begin finishing long ppt
7:30 am: computer shuts down
8:50 am: after hour of cold panic/waiting for computer to reboot
9:06: am: almost done with all 18 slides damn it
9:07 am: sent to MD for proofing
9:10 am: received final version back from MD, forward to doctor
9:31 am: team meeting
10:15 am: urgent blackberry messages left unanswered re: call at 11
11:04 am: scurry back down to office for conference call
11:05 am: despite worry, is first person on call
11:11 am: speaking with two partners
11:36 am: conference call concludes
11:45 am: meeting with 2nd year BA for lunch
12:31 pm: finished with lunch
2:31 pm: team meeting
3:35 pm: back to office for work
7:05 pm: report to partners office
7:35 pm: finish debrief
8:10 pm: leave office
8:32 pm: meeting at bar for drinks
9:10 pm: meeting at apartment to regroup
10:35 pm: leaving for house party
11:45 pm: from house party to club
12:15 pm: clubbing
3:05 am: exhausted, climb into taxi
4:05 am: write xanganotoriously missing: lunch, dinner breaks
Comments (4)
wow, i wish my conference calls lasted only 25 min
sucks that u work so late on fridays. client site is the killer for me tho, i'm lucky if i get out by 9 or 10
aww you can do it =) btw, i don't recall there being cookies... hahaha but there wasn't anything else either. lol!
woh, thaz crazy, you are so capable. I would have passed out already. Btw, you still have those pix you took in Vancouver? can you send them to me? thank you!
Hey crazy - I hope you're getting some R&R here this weekend, and don't have to work weekends. So this is the breakneck speed New Yorkers work at. Oye!
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