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Originally Posted by activeStick
My personal experience aligns to what you're saying, as well as what I've observed from others at our firm. I'm in a fairly senior role in consulting and while I'm not constantly going over 40 hours a week, week over week, it's a pretty regular occurrence. I had assumed when I was younger that as I moved up, working extra hours would vanish, but this definitely hasn't been the reality. A lot of this is due to meetings taking up a ton of the day where you can't do any of your actual work and for my industry specifically, meetings with teams that land outside my working hours that require my attendance (some offshore, but also some as simple as being out of the eastern time zone when I work out of the Pacific time zone). I do wonder if it's always been this way or if things have gotten worse over time.
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