When I was a young stock analyst (a more senior role than described here, in a different department) in the 1980s, I was regarded as weird because I pulled the

When I was a young stock analyst (a more senior role than described here, in a different department) in the 1980s, I was regarded as weird because I pulled the occasional all-nighter. But that was a different role in a different era. The lives of investment banking analyst types indeed sound pretty awful. It's one of those careers that nobody would possibly pursue except in the hope of making money. I'd say that's a bad characteristic for a job to have, but of course the large majority of the working population does just that, albeit for less money and in most cases fewer hours as well.