Long hours in exchange for a handsome salary is a common trade-off made by those in banking. But after three years of “brutal” analyst work for Deutsche Bank, Jonathan Recanati was ready to pack it all in and strike out on his own.
“Very often in a bank a lot of people are out for themselves. It’s mainly about the money and what bonus you’re going to get,” Recanati tells Fortune. “It just didn’t feel like I fit in. I looked at the more senior people and I thought: ‘I don’t want to be you’.”
