{"id":144183,"date":"2025-10-25T06:38:19","date_gmt":"2025-10-25T06:38:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/144183\/"},"modified":"2025-10-25T06:38:19","modified_gmt":"2025-10-25T06:38:19","slug":"dubliner-nigel-motyer-i-left-my-high-pressure-finance-job-at-56-to-dive-full-time-im-sorry-i-didnt-do-it-earlier","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/144183\/","title":{"rendered":"Dubliner Nigel Motyer: \u2018I left my high-pressure finance job at 56 to dive full-time \u2013 I\u2019m sorry I didn\u2019t do it earlier\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-91174671_secondary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom4 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop4\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\" data-testid=\"title-summary\">\nSince leaving his role at an American Fortune 250 company to pursue a lifelong passion for underwater photography, Nigel has dived all around the world \u2013 but it\u2019s the hidden treasures beneath Ireland\u2019s seas that have surprised him the most\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Underwater photographer Nigel Motyer\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/b06b6e65-36b2-46ee-9463-7e6abfca5703.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_caption1 indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_secondary indo-66f0fec7_regular indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop3 indo-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">Underwater photographer Nigel Motyer<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">It\u2019s a question that I\u2019ve been asked a thousand times. I\u2019ve swam with saltwater crocodiles in Cuba, dived with orca whales in Norwegian fjords and I once came face to face with a black bear while trying to photograph wild salmon in Canada. I\u2019ve been all around the world with my underwater camera, taking photographs of marine life and had my work featured in National Geographic. But what everyone wants to know is, \u2018How does a boy who worked in investment banking for most of his career make waves as an underwater photographer?\u2019<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">The good thing is that I have more time to dive since I left the finance world in 2023. I\u2019m sorry I didn\u2019t do it earlier. Although that high-pressure role in an American Fortune 250 company was financially lucrative, it was sobering to see a number of friends and colleagues who died suddenly, or got sick, or had heart attacks, or got dementia.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Since leaving his role at an American Fortune 250 company to pursue a lifelong passion for underwater photography,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":144184,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[267],"tags":[365,362,363,364,366,18,117,19,17],"class_list":{"0":"post-144183","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-arts-and-design","8":"tag-arts","9":"tag-arts-and-design","10":"tag-artsanddesign","11":"tag-artsdesign","12":"tag-design","13":"tag-eire","14":"tag-entertainment","15":"tag-ie","16":"tag-ireland"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/115433433006322312","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144183","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=144183"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144183\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/144184"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=144183"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=144183"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=144183"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}