Investment Banking

‘I don’t miss a thing’: Burned-out junior bankers reflect on life after quitting

‘We’ve moved on from the days when everyone had to be a lawyer, consultant or banker to make a living,’ says Tobias Taupitz, a former Barclays associate who now runs a fintech startup

Liam White left JPMorgan in 2017 to launch Dr Will’s, a startup that makes healthy condiments
Liam White left JPMorgan in 2017 to launch Dr Will’s, a startup that makes healthy condiments

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.”

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