Liam White spent two years working at JPMorgan’s investment bank before he decided the industry was not for him. 

“I realised it was a long, hard slog to get to the point where the job changes that much,” he said, with a lot of the work of junior bankers involving number crunching and PowerPoint presentations. “It would have been six years to make it to vice president, where you are given more client relationships, and keeping with the grind for that period of time was frustrating and didn’t appeal.”