Wall Street Oasis - Investment Banking & Finance Community: Why are we Obsessed with "Work/Life Balance"?

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Why are we Obsessed with "Work/Life Balance"? Feb 1st 2013, 03:34 I've been doing a fair bit of thinking about the idea of a "work/life balance", and it's a topic that I encounter more often on this board than just about anywhere else, so I thought it an appropriate forum for discussion. When I was in college interviewing for the typical set of sought-after entry-level positions, it was often striking to me that the distinction between those who preferred consulting to IB were those who purportedly wanted a better "work/life balance". Frequently, there was no more important distinction than that. When I asked friends who went into consulting why they chose consulting, they often responded by saying, "I just don't think I could deal with working that many hours" (as if their career decision were a presupposed dichotomy between banking and consulting? - but that's another discussion). And that led me to believe that I most certainly would be dissatisfied with my "work/life balance" once I started full-time in IB. read more Media files: preview (image/jpeg, 0 MB)

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