This Working Life: ‘I was deeply unhappy in work… then I began driving and it was like freedom’

John Compton, the owner of Compton Chauffeurs and a former model and modelling agency founder, chats about the joy of escaping the nine-to-five office routine for the variety that the open road brings

John Compton

In conversation with Mary McCarthy

My new career is down to a friend – John Norton, the TV producer. He said: “Why not get a job driving for the movies? It will get you out of the hole you’re in.”

I thrive on the variety. It’s like when I was in the modelling game – there is no typical day.

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