Solicitor-turned-corporate-financier Jason Mohr left the City to indulge his entrepreneurial ambitions and now gets a big buzz from his junk clearance company: “When I worked in the City, I always felt slightly out of place. I liked the salary, working with bright people, and the kudos, back then at least, of being in such an exclusive industry. But I very rarely got a buzz about what I did. If I’m honest, I also never really loved working for other people and that, more than anything else, was why I left to do my own thing.

Then: corporate finance, NM Rothschild Now: founder of UK's largest on-demand rubbish clearance company AnyJunk