Analyst - Investment Banking

Modeling every night until 2 a.m. and not having much of a social lifeproves to be unbearable for many an analyst. Furthermore, when not at theoffice, analysts can be found feverishly typing on their blackberries. Notsurprisingly, after two years, many analysts leave the industry.

Unfortunately, many bankers recognize the transient nature of analysts, andwork them hard to get the most out of them they can. The unfortunateanalyst that screws up or talks back too much may never get quality work,spending his days bored until 11 p.m. waiting for work to come, stressingeven more than the busy analyst. These are the analysts that do not getcalled to work on live transactions, and do menial work or just put togetherpitchbooks all of the time. The very best analysts often get identified earlyby top performing MDs and VPs, thus finding themselves staffed on manylive transactions.