Alex Smereczniak

And as soon as there's diminishing returns, if I work another hour but I don't gain anything, why would I do the other hour?

I could go do something else.

And so I, they give us the rubric.

Here's how you get a one star, two star, three star, four star, five stars.

All right.

Five stars, only 3% or, you know, each class gets it.

Here's the rules.

They lay it out.

The rules of the game.

I was like, I'm gonna go play this game at the end of the year.

And my roommates had bought a condo with the laundry money.

A lot of guys that lived with me worked at Ernst and Young were people I knew from, from college or work.

And.

end of the year, my utilization and consulting, we do utilize, how many hours are you working, you know, client work, et cetera, et cetera.

My utilization was like right at 41 hours a week.

Like literally the bare, bare minimum.

My roommates was at like 80.

He's working twice as many hours as you were getting twice the production.

So I was doing campus recruiting.

I was talking to the right partners and being involved in the right extracurricular things within Ernst & Young.