As the axe falls across London’s financial sector and redunancies increase, the FT’s new series presents a fascinating range of people who have moved on from jobs in the City, willingly or not.

In the first video in the series, Julian Murray, frustrated by fund management, describes how he changed his working life - becoming a landscape gardener before moving on to teaching

The other videos in the ‘Life after the City’ series:

After Black Monday

From stockbroking to canal boats

Tim Coghlan tells the story of how he faced being made redundant at a stockbrokers after the 1987 Black Monday crash, and went on to turn around a bankrupt marina for canal boats in Braunston in central England.

A dotcom crash victim

From Merrill to the mountains

Adam Honey on the dotcom crash, and starting a ski company.

The lure of paint

From IT to artists

Former senior IT director, Leann Barber describes how two redundancies forced her to rethink her life, and to move into art galleries and collecting