Sarah made $165K at Meta. Stock options. Corner office. Everyone envied her success, which stemmed from her expertise in consulting corporate jobs within the consulting sector.
She also cried in her car every morning before work.
“What’s wrong with me?” she asked during our first coaching call. “I have everything people want, but I feel completely trapped.”
Here’s what I discovered: Sarah wasn’t broken. She was being systematically extracted.
Every brilliant idea she had became Meta’s intellectual property. Every relationship she built served the business development. Every skill she developed made her more competitive, but also more dependent.
Sarah was generating $230K in annual value but only receiving $165K. The difference? $65K in corporate extraction.
And she’s not alone.
Most high earners try to solve this feeling by asking for raises, seeking promotions, or improving work-life balance. But these are band-aids on a deeper wound.
The real problem isn’t your performance. It’s that you’re trapped in an extraction economy designed to harvest your value.
The Workplace Genie
Think about it:
- Your brilliance becomes their competitive edge.
- Your network becomes their leverage.
- Your reputation builds their brand.
- Your expertise builds their market position.
Meanwhile, you feel increasingly hollow despite external success.
The average professional in my assessment discovers they’re losing $45K-$67K annually to extraction patterns. That’s why raises never feel like enough — you’re creating far more value than you’re capturing.
Here’s what I do differently:
Instead of optimizing within broken systems, I help people build systematic escape routes. Not by quitting tomorrow, but by creating options so you stay by choice rather than necessity.
Sarah now runs a $180K consulting practice, working 25 hours per week from anywhere she wants—same skills, zero extraction, complete freedom.
Your next move:
Take the Corporate Liberation Assessment this week. It reveals exactly where your value is being captured and shows you the systematic path to freedom.
Discover your extraction amount here →
Almost everyone who takes it says, “I had no idea it was this bad”. But shocking awareness is the first step to systematic change.
If your assessment shows high extraction (like 73% of test-takers), it’s time to take some action. Book a free discovery session with me here
Stay free,
Your Workplace Genie
P.S. The GitHub CEO walked away from billions. Your golden handcuffs might be smaller, but they’re just as real. Find out exactly what they’re costing you.
Written by Your Genie – career freedom coach, cubicle escape artist, and chronic coffee re-heater.
