re: How do you feel about young NY investment bankers being worked 80-100 weeks?

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It’s apples to oranges. I’ve done both.

Offshore can be physically taxing if you’re not the safety guy or some shite. But you at least get to recover on your days off.

Finance bros really never get a day off. It’s mentally exhausting even before the abusive culture.

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I’m not trying to be argumentative, but there are plenty of O&G jobs where mental burnout is a much larger factor than physical exhaustion. Particularly for field engineers at service companies. And a lot of those folks work on-call rather than on a rotation, where they just bounce from shitshow to shitshow trying to unfrick various situations. (I’ve been one of those guys. )