A (Fri)Day in the Life

Junior employees are expected to be there before their bosses. You list all the unresponsive individuals and strategize your ‘nagging’ for the day.

First meeting. You scheduled it for the morning, because you know Friday afternoons at banks are as productive as elementary school children jazzed up on sugar.

Call four people who owe you follow-ups, data requests, etc. Get a hold of two. One person gives you what you need.

You’ve completed the minutes from the morning meeting and dished out the next steps to everyone. Time to figure our lunch plans – at this point you’re jonesing for some grub to kick the hangover from the team’s Thursday night happy hour.

Only day in financial services where it’s acceptable to take a full hour lunch.

At this point you have <0.1% chance of hearing back from anyone on any open requests. You just complete any small to-do’s on your list.

Queue up Chariots of Fire medley, as the departure of employees for the weekend begins. However, only Managing Directors get to leave. As a junior employee, you’re stuck!

It is now acceptable to leave since it’s only Associates and Analysts left at the office.

You have 10 minutes to wake up and drink water so when you speak to your international client, you don’t sound like an 80 year old lifetime smoker.

Since its Friday, you get to work at the company office. You throw on jeans and a button down and get away without a clean shave.

You arrive at the office to find bagels, cream cheese, and fruit.  At Kepler, every Friday is “Fruit Friday”!

An industry executive is at the office to give a talk on leveraging social media outlets to promote your work and personal brand.

The partner on your project gives you feedback on your analysis. Time to crank out some new PowerPoint pages!

“Family lunch” is the best part of the work week. Beyond enjoying a wonderful free lunch picked out by the Kepler Foodies, this is a great time to catch up with folks on how their projects are going, discuss ideas for firm development, and of course weekend plans.

Your international client is gone for the day, it is time for firm development! You research a major asset management company for a sales meeting next week.

Time for a temperature check on where you stand with client work and other firm responsibilities.

It’s “Fitness Friday” – Kepler promotes consultants with sound minds and bodies. Head across the street to Rise by We (company sponsored, of course) for a boxing class.