I Got Featured on the Cover of an International Newspaper

How a stay-at-home dad pipped an investment banker

Author’s picture of his Financial News cover page featuring a story about him.

When I chose to quit my 12-year-long career at Goldman Sachs to be a stay-at-home dad, I had expected my life to get a lot less eventful.

Here I am, a month after I announced my life and career shift to the world, with a cover feature in the Dow Jones-owned Financial News weekly newspaper.

Talk about expecting the unexpected!

And it wasn’t just “any” cover story. If the editor-in-chief is a credible enough source, she tells me that my story is the most read story they’ve published so far this year.

So, how did we get here?

Stay-at-home-dad vs. Investment Banker — what’s hotter?

Making hundreds of thousands of dollars a year is something a lot of people dream of. The quintessential “successful man” is still a suited-up individual depicting a “professional.” The suit and grooming typically indicate some sort of wealth.

If you don’t believe me run a search for images of a “successful man” and you’ll find a hundred versions of the below image — as I did.