One moment you're at your desk, spreadsheet open, soul dying.
The next:
You're free.
The obligations dissolved. The metrics don't matter anymore. The boss has no power. The shareholders don't own your time.
You can breathe.
Mission-driven research. Fighting death itself. Your work MATTERS—every experiment, every discovery extends human lifespan. Talk to smartest people you've ever met. Make $90k (less than corporate) but go home fulfilled, not empty.
Design real systems for real communities. See your governance structures implemented. Watch neighborhoods you planned get built. Your MBA useful here—but serving people, not shareholders.
Food production. Tangible. Real. You plant seeds, harvest food, feed community. Your business skills help manage cooperative. Sleep exhausted from real work, not soul-exhausted from meaningless tasks.
You find a world where your skills serve human flourishing, not profit extraction.
You apply. They accept.
You leave the Lobby. You enter life.
You wake up on Monday and you don't have
Sunday night dread
.
You actually want to go to work. Not "make the best of it" want. Actually want.
This is what it feels like when work serves life instead of replacing it.
You solve a problem. A real one. Not "increase engagement by 2.3%" but "this is why the experiment failed and how we fix it."
Your colleague—actual scientist, not corporate drone—looks at your analysis and says: "This is brilliant. This could save us 6 months."
Your work mattered. Visibly. Immediately. Really.
Sunday at 8pm. In your old life: dread spiral, can't sleep, already mentally at desk.
In your new life: Reading a book. Actually reading. Not thinking about tomorrow. Not dreading Monday. Just... enjoying Sunday evening.
The dread is gone. Actually gone. You didn't know that was possible.
Last week someone asked what I did before rallying.
I had to think about it. Actually think. Like remembering a previous life.
"Corporate job. Made more money. Meaningless work."
They asked: "Do you miss it? The money?"
I laughed. Miss what? The soul death? The Sunday dread? The feeling of wasting my life making someone else rich?
I make $95k instead of $180k. But I'm ALIVE.
I work on longevity research. Actual meaningful problem: humans die, can we fix that?
My work matters. My colleagues are brilliant. My days have purpose.
And I sleep like a baby on Sunday nights.
40 years in corporate death. 1 year here. I'm 41. I'm finally alive.
The only regret: Not pressing exit 20 years earlier.
From death to life.
From meaningless to meaningful.
From soul-extraction to soul-expression.
Press the button. Wake up. Live.