Deirdre McGettrick was a rising star in London’s investment banking scene.  As vice president of HSBC’s leverage and acquisition finance team, she oversaw £20 billion-plus acquisition facilities for FTSE 100 players and ran a portfolio of clients across the UK and the Netherlands.  Yet after eight years of hard work building up her career in advisory finance, she looked back to her childhood in … Continue reading My ‘scary’ decision to ditch finance world for furniture dream