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you forgot... Lunch



Forget About the Bathroom – or Trips to Starbucks

This also brings up another key point and a major difference between banking and trading: most traders hate leaving their desks for fear of missing out on something important.
•Lunch breaks are limited to 15 minutes (and often the junior guys or interns will go get the food for them).
•Bathroom breaks are rare unless you really need to go.
•Forget about 10 trips to Starbucks during the day: bankers can do that only because they have so much down time.
•No friendly chats with the cute marketing intern – at least not until the market is closed.

This also means that it’s common for traders to gain weight: they pretty much just sit there all day, eyes glued to the monitors, only taking the occasional break to eat.

If you walk up and try to talk to a trader, half the time he won’t even look at you: this might seem rude to you, but to him not paying attention for even a few seconds might result in a loss of thousands or tens of thousands of dollars.

And part of it is just habit: they’re so used to having their eyes glued on the screen that it’s almost weird to look away from it.

Hey, if you had that much money on the line constantly, you probably wouldn’t give the time of day to bright-eyed interns or newbie traders either…

Same as at home desk traders, if i'm glued the house could be on fire. leave me alone !

if i remember correctly, the commanders neighborhood was on fire and he stayed, manned his post !

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