And that’s why I wanted to make my new podcast series ... In the same way you might stop smoking, or do a dry January. He’d acknowledged it was causing him problems, so he’d made a call ...

My out-of-the-box ideas were discouraged. I was told to stick to the Excel templates and precisely formatted PowerPoint decks, and to stop using exclamation points in my emails. My schedule was ...

Editor’s Note: Co-written by Zane Glick, ‘Why I quit finance’ chronicles Neil Shah’s journey first in, then out of Big Finance, with hopes of highlighting the loss of career autonomy amongst aspiring ...