For corporate workers who feel trapped. One email every Sunday: one number or decision for your escape plan, and one thing to do before Monday. No hustle culture.
Welcome. Here's the first number.
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Hey, Jack here. Thanks for being one of the first people on this list. I'm going to keep these short, so here's the deal up front. I spent 15 years in corporate America. At one company, I survived 23 rounds of layoffs. I was never the one carrying the box. I watched a man who gave them fifty years get five minutes. And I ended up in the ER twice with my heart racing at a rate no status meeting is worth. What finally changed things wasn't quitting in a blaze of glory. It was a number. Not a retirement number. Not "F-you money." Just the answer to one question: if they walked me out tomorrow, how many months could I last? The first time I ran it honestly, the answer was embarrassing. That was the point. You can't fix a number you refuse to look at. Do this before MondayOpen a note on your phone. Write down what you'd actually spend in a month if your paycheck stopped tomorrow. Housing, groceries, utilities, insurance, transportation, minimum debt payments. Nothing else. That's your monthly survival cost. Now divide your savings by it. That's how many months you have. Write the number down and date it. You don't need to like it. You just need to know it. If you grabbed the worksheet when you signed up, it walks you through this plus the two numbers that come after it. If you haven't, grab the free worksheet here. What you'll get from me every Sunday:
No hustle culture. No "replace your salary in 90 days." Just the math and the uncomfortable truths that got me off the treadmill. One favor: hit reply and tell me your number of months, or just tell me what's keeping you in the job right now. I read every reply. (It also tells your inbox these emails aren't spam, which helps them keep arriving.) Talk next Sunday, This is not financial advice. I'm one person sharing what worked for me. Identifying details in my stories are changed to protect the people involved, me included. |
Off The Treadmill
For corporate workers who feel trapped. One email every Sunday: one number or decision for your escape plan, and one thing to do before Monday. No hustle culture.
Hey, Two numbers from the same government report, same month. The median job search in September ran 11.5 weeks. The average ran 24.8. Same people, same month, more than double apart. Most runway advice quotes whichever one makes its point. The gap between them is the only part I care about. The median says most people land something in about three months. The average gets dragged up by the long searches, and those are growing. In September, 27.1% of unemployed people had been looking for...