ESCAPE FROM THE CUBICLE FARM

It has been almost two years since I walked through the cubicle farm. I remember on my last day as I walked through the farm, observant as usual to the desperate sadness of the farm, but something was different this day.  I suppose it’s because I was coming up on my final day before I finally resigned from this unnatural lifestyle.  I looked into cube after cube of lifeless workers, some of whom I considered friends.  But this day all I could see was waste.  Men and women, with lives wasting away, going along with a system they never questioned, never challenged, never even knew was there enough to reject it.  Puppets to a force they falsely assume is more powerful than them.  I felt sadness, but mostly compassion for all of the potential lost.  And I also felt a shiver of fear, and anger, and betrayal.  I had been one of them, a puppet to this system, and no one looking out for me.  Not my family, and not my friends. Until a few years ago, no one ever told me that this whole thing was bullshit.  That we had (and have) choices.

If escaping the corporate cube farm, living free, earning more, and living life on your own terms appeals to you, then you should definitely keep reading. The organizing and mass production of human efforts humbly began as Henry Ford’s big idea. Henry Ford is the father of mass production and the idea of expendable employees. His legacy created our modern-day cube farms. In public schools, we are prepared to be domestic animals herded into cubes, exploited, and put out to pasture with our best years behind us. We buy into this huge, unthinkable life compromise for the promise of:

Marginal economic security – now

Rapidly eroded retirement dollars – later

Ailing health and ongoing doctor visits, because you lacked a purposeful life that reduces your pasture time!!!

And, when you FINALLY have the freest time, you’ll mainly see your friends at their funerals (seated or lying down).

There are only three endings to this story:

You like cubes and will make yourself indispensable because you love it. (Happy Cow)

You just want a pay cheque – not interested in climbing or growing. (Dispensable Cow)

You hate cubes, want to see more of your freest time now, and produce income that supports your life outside of the cube farm. (Divergent Cow)

If you are #3, diverge with me from the cube farm philosophy, and escape the malodorous stench of office-politic cow pies, big brother policy cattle prods, and straight-jackets constricting our creative and innovative minds. If you’re like me, your cube walls are closing in fast and you are having a Morgan Freeman moment – Shawshank Redemption.

Can you relate?

Butterfly Transition Life Coaching can help you to become educated as to how best to navigate this sea change in your life. Begin by understanding the stages you can expect, and making the most of each one through proactive strategies.

Butterfly Transition Life Coaching is here to support and guide you through the unknown sea of change.

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