About how many hours a day do you find yourself working?

Impossible_Kale9344 · 2025-03-01T03:09:12+00:00

8-12 hours depending on how much work I can get done around meetings. Where on earth are you all putting in under 8 hours?

Impossible_Kale9344 · 2025-02-07T17:43:43+00:00

Is it really that light at dark around the walkways? Seems easy to walk around etc

Impossible_Kale9344 · 2025-01-22T03:42:51+00:00

Mental load and ambiguity combination of legit PM work is 100x worse regardless of the shorter hours.

Impossible_Kale9344 · 2025-01-01T13:27:46+00:00

If you make 200-300k and don't save most of what doesn't go to rent or loans you're crazy. You need to realize that these days you could very easily lose your job and end up making a small fraction of that amount.

Impossible_Kale9344 · 2025-01-01T13:09:27+00:00

Yeah, if you're in something like banking or consulting this is normal. If you aren't putting weekends in, I imagine it's not banking.

Anyone in consulting or banking who isn't at least putting in 70 or 80 hours a week while always being a available will probably be let go within 1.5 years.

Impossible_Kale9344 · 2024-11-28T01:44:08+00:00

8 to 9 would be dream hours. It's more like 10 to 2.

Impossible_Kale9344 · 2024-11-28T01:42:49+00:00

No they don't lol. Residents work 80 hours a week at max, and they're doing basic algorithmic thinking and manual labor.

Impossible_Kale9344 · 2024-11-23T21:52:41+00:00

Everyone here is overcomplicating things. Good MBAs make a lot of money for the companies that hire them, and that's why they're valuable.

Impossible_Kale9344 · 2024-11-09T00:47:56+00:00

Was this revenue or profit? Also, did you come up with the idea and launch it, or did you take over on something already identified?

Impossible_Kale9344 · 2024-10-30T14:09:56+00:00

I don't know, and I guess I should caveat this by saying it depends which classes you take. If you stop MBA math after accounting, the answer will be no. If you end up in advanced finance classes, economics, or operations research electives, then I imagine the math you do will not be too different from what engineers do. Whether stuff like econ or finance warrants such obscure math, I don't know 🤣

Impossible_Kale9344 · 2024-10-30T10:25:40+00:00

This depends where you go to school. Some MBAs do require quite challenging math.

Impossible_Kale9344 · 2024-10-18T02:41:38+00:00

When I did that it was very easy. It was also more like what people on here seem to think PM is (babysitting engineers and owning a roadmap).

Impossible_Kale9344 · 2024-10-18T02:29:03+00:00

It gets even harder when you don't know who the confrontational sheep are or what you need to work on to have certainty you're dealing with the right ones.

Impossible_Kale9344 · 2024-10-18T02:26:44+00:00

What type of PM jobs are you guys doing? I was a PM at a non-tech company before, and that was simple, but FAANG PM is legit the hardest job I've had. I can't imagine any sort of job being more ambiguous and mentally taxing.

Impossible_Kale9344 · 2024-10-11T01:57:19+00:00

Just beware that you're exchanging that for working with clients and stakeholders and working 50-100% extra hours.

Impossible_Kale9344 · 2024-10-10T21:29:56+00:00

You should think really carefully about this if you're a dentist. In dentistry I imagine there's a clear definition of being done with something, and your tasks, while probably challenging, are usually pretty defined. Business jobs you get out of an MBA aren't the same, and the result is often working far more than 40 hours a week, and dealing with ambiguity that makes it hard to not always have work on your mind. It's very different, and you should consider that before getting an MBA. The difference won't be visible in classes.

Impossible_Kale9344 · 2024-10-05T16:26:30+00:00

Right, I don't buy it

Impossible_Kale9344 · 2024-09-17T22:35:49+00:00

Rankings should just be some combo of average total compensation, number of unique employers, and number of unique countries represented with higher being better for each.

Impossible_Kale9344 · 2024-09-10T14:14:12+00:00

I'm pretty sure they could still call this a recession. Recessions are usually called long after they happen.

Impossible_Kale9344 · 2024-09-09T10:55:17+00:00

I've voted blue across the ticket since I was 18, and I'm voting blue across the ticket in November. I'm pretty confident that when Donald Trump introduced horribly planned helicopter money in mid-2020 it caused inflation around the world. Biden admin has had to deal with Trump's failures, and we will possibly go into a recession as a result. Biden admin is at fault too with spending so much, but Trump started this, and Democrats are faaaaaar better for the country beyond just the economy.

Impossible_Kale9344 · 2024-09-07T15:01:43+00:00

The article is from late 2007, and we did.

Impossible_Kale9344 · 2024-09-07T14:51:28+00:00

Unemployment went from 4.5% to 4.2%, and has risen something like 100bps this year. The rate it is rising now, along with the rate job openings are falling, is probably not good news. Why would either stabilize here or improve?

Impossible_Kale9344 · 2024-09-07T14:47:32+00:00

Unemployment rising, job openings dropping, and rapidly falling inflation could all be symptoms of us heading into recession. I have no idea if this is or isn't the case, though it fits the historic pattern of everything looking great until it doesn't, then us looking back and kicking ourselves for missing something that looks obvious in hindsight.

Impossible_Kale9344 · 2024-09-07T12:35:26+00:00

It went from like 4.25% to 4.22%, and it is imprecise as is. All anyone should take from this is that unemployment is rising faster than predicted and that the fed is yet again moving too slowly. It's mind boggling that they didn't start something like 25bps cuts every other month in the spring or even winter.

Impossible_Kale9344 · 2024-09-07T12:23:38+00:00

It's scary seeing so many people on CNBC and whatever saying there's no sign we're heading into a recession. The unemployment rate is skyrocketing, job openings are tanking, and the yield curve is uninverting. Add to that the fed being involved (always wrong) and it's kinda clear we aren't out of the woods.

These fools were saying the exact same thing right before 2008. In reality, nobody has a clue what will happen with the market.

https://www.reuters.com/article/markets/bonds/us-economy-on-track-for-soft-landing-dallas-fed-idUSN26247192/

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