LIFE AFTER WALL STREET |

“You can only leave Morgan Stanley once.”

That’s what my former boss said when I told her I was leaving the bank in 1999. I wonder if CFO Ruth Porat heard the same thing when she announced she was heading to Google?

Would she even care?

That kind of Wall Street scare tactic used to send a ripple of fear through anyone thinking of leaving the high-pressure, high-paying job. But recently, we’ve seen more and more finance people chasing their entrepreneurial spirit — and you never hear about them going back.