Say goodbye to the dream

[El Diablo]

KKF,

"can someone tell me how or why some of these guys have to work 12hrs/day? how is that productive for the company? why dont they work normal hours?"

In general, it's so they can do all the grunt work that lets their bosses not work those crazy hours while making crazy money. And the reason they do it is so they can become the bosses making crazy money while having new guys do all the crap work and crazy hours.

Whether it be finance, accounting, law, or consulting, part of the fallacy about these careers is that all the crap at the front end of the career is worth it because once you're there xx years you'll be a partner with a big salary and equity interest or profit participation or whatever and that will more than make up for the crap years. Which is generally true for those that stick around and actually make it to partner. But many people don't make it to that point.