Running a side business while also working at Goldman Sachs landed financial adviser Luke Thorburn in hot water, but the suspended financial adviser might be onto something when it comes to the timing of starting a business.

The financial adviser originally from Brisbane was was outed by The New York Times recently as the only Goldman Sachs employee to have contributed money to Donald Trump's presidential campaign last year. It then emerged that he was involved in selling hats online with the slogan, "Make Christianity Great Again", a take-off of Trump's campaign catchcry, Make America Great Again. The story made headlines; Thorburn got benched by Goldman.