<p>hours are a little crazy. Is there anyway to negotiate this?</p>
<p>Can you elaborate? Do you feel you're working too many hours? Inconsistent hours? Shifts in the middle on the night?</p>
<p>no it's a finance related one at a Bulgebracket firm. No night hours, but is there any way to negotiate from the basis of a lot of travel time?</p>
<p>Can you elaborate a little more? What are your actual hours/day per week? What is your commute?</p>
<p>I would suggest you not cry directly to them if you want to get a full time offer.</p>
<p>I'm sorry, are you surprised? Finance = very time consuming. It's always been that way.</p>
<p>Finance is mid/back office of a BB. If you were a real IBD SA you'd be working well past midnight, so stop whining -- you people in the back office have it a lot better than the folks who do the actual work .</p>
<p>So, you wanted to make the big bucks without the big hours. Reality check! This is what life in that industry is like. Learn everything you can, find out whehther you want to do this for a living, take this knowledge, and apply it to the next internship/job/courses you want to pursue. Sometimes an internship can be a great way of learning what one DOESN'T want to do for a living.</p>
<p>There are plenty of folks who would love to be in your shoes. That said, this is a summer internship, not a contract for indenture -- so it will end. Just do your best, learn everything you can, suck up the not-so-good stuff, and don't burn bridges.</p>
<p>(spouse of Wharton 83 grad)</p>
<p>aworldapart: what do you mean actual work? that's so offensive to people working in the mid/back offices. I'm looking to get into i-banking but it's not like finance is crap.</p>
<p>and is there anyway to terminate an internship like midway through if you don't find yourself being a fit?</p>
<p>Did you sign a contract? There might be no way out. It might suck, but if you can, you should try to stick it out. Think about the great recommendation you can get and the other students who applied and didn't get the job. Leaving would reflect really poorly on you. Try to make the best of it. Good luck!</p>
<p>I agree- stick with it for the recommendation</p>
<p>you only get a good recommendation if you perform well. if you aren't enthusiastic about going to work and sticking out 8+ hours, then there's no guarantee you will get a good rec. has anyone here ever heard of anyone dropping out of an internship midway through?</p>
<p>8+??? I'm a senior in high school and I am working 9 hour days all summer at Fidelity which is not the most interesting job in the world, but I am doing it because it is a huge resume booster (especially at such a young age) and because its a great learning experience. I don't want to sound callous but you need to suck it up.</p>
<p>It all depends on your goals for the internship. If you are looking for a full-time job afterwards, you may want to step it up and show you are commited, and show you can deliver. But why would you want a full time job with them doing what you do now, if you cannot stand what you do now?</p>
<p>If you just want it to put it on your resume, just hang on in there. But be careful, your boss may perceive your attitude and give it a second thought once you look for a recommendation letter.</p>
<p>If you want to learn, than that's what you should do. </p>
<p>At the end just think of it as a short-term effort that can be very good for you if you do well. Worst case scenario: you already learnt one thing you won't like to do in the future.</p>
<p>Pretty hilarious crying about such weak hours.</p>
<p>wow yeah... i spent my last summer working for 15+ hours...
dude 8 hours is nothing.... and I had to commute 45 min. back and forth</p>
<p>Come on. Working 8 hours a day is the norm for most internships. If the commute is 2 hours each way, I can see how exhausting that would be. My daughter had the same situation last summer, 8 hour work-day, 3.5 hour daily total commute. Weekends she was too exhausted to party and have fun. But you know what, it's probably 10 weeks long, and you will still have 5 weeks to relax; makes it all the sweeter.</p>
<p>first of all, yes, it is an 8 hour work day. secondly, yes I do have about a 3.5 daily total commute. That's what im complaining about. Oh and not to mention that I wont have 5 weeks to relax....more along the lines of 3 and a half</p>
<p>When you accepted the internship, did you not know you would be commuting for 3.5 hours daily?</p>
<p>Surprised you are at Wharton with that kind of work ethic.</p>