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The Sunday Times
Style Magazine - Going Up: "EscapetheCity.org" - Fed up with being a banker? Here's how to fly the coop. One thousand more members each month.
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Evening Standard
A new breed of high-flying twenty-somethings who are planning to ditch their desk jobs in order to live the dream, 20 years early.
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Financial Times
A London-based start-up has found an opportunity in the market for City workers eager to quit corporate life in the Square Mile for more entrepreneurial ventures.
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Time
Escape the City, a website that helps banking, law and finance types escape to more fulfilling careers. Helping Corporate Drones Live Their Dreams.
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Forbes
A year after the financial system's near-meltdown, a growing number of young graduates are seeking to flee, and a new venture called Escape the City is helping them chart a flight plan
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The Globe and Mail
When Rob & Dom decided to change careers, they looked for a website to provide advice & help them contact other like-minded professionals – except there wasn’t one. So they started their own.
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City AM
Tempting stuff, this, at a time when uncertainty is rife and many jobs in the financial services sector are looking less than 100 per cent secure.
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The Daily Telegraph
Nearly three quarters of corporate professionals want to work abroad, with 30pc actively looking for a new job, a survey has found.
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The Guardian
Two graduates who quit the City to find fulfilment are helping others do the same with their Escape the City website.
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Bloomberg
The people they attract are educated and intelligent and want something more out of their working lives. There is more and more disillusion with the traditional corporate world.
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The Independent
65% of professionals don't find their current jobs interesting, 57% intend to move jobs within 1 year. Only 10% want to stay in the City for the rest of their career.
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Reuters
Meet Rob Symington & Dom Jackman. Bored with their jobs they left in search of new careers. Realising others felt the same as them they set up Escape the City.