They’re not gonna.
https://twitter.com/sarahoconnor_/status/1478343134002167809
And I will say, I experienced 2.5 years of that at my first firm. The physical consequences were shocking - the list of ailments that working so much under stress caused *me* (maybe not you, I get it) was extreme.
Psychologically less extreme, but I was (as I have said many times before) extremely befuddled by being so miserable at a job and I thought I must have done something wrong.
Anyway, if you are an M&A associate billing 400 hours or whatever other nonsense, and you are suffering, let me repeat my admonition. Stop... Doing.... It. Now. ASAP. Not next year.
If you have to talk fast because otherwise you might lose your 10 minutes of sleep, stop. Don’t do that. 
What are you gonna do with the $15 million or whatever you make before keeling over. Buy a nice mausoleum for yourself? Nah man.
Again, some people do this fine and love the financial rewards. That’s fine with me. But it’s mostly not worth it.
Again, some people do this fine and love the financial rewards. That’s fine with me. But it’s mostly not worth it.
And to wrap back around to my first tweet, a big firm M&A practice is not going to change if you are very sad or something. You can't negotiate with an angry Cave Ogre. You just leave the cave.
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