DIARY OF A RECOVERING MBA
WORK.
AMBITION.
POWERPOINT.
And the quiet realization that you’re not the problem.
Lynne Everatt – Toronto
Stories about the strange logic of corporate life—and what happens when you start to see it clearly.
JUST LOOPING IN…
You were told success
would feel better than this.
From Corporate Lifer to a Life Reimagined
If you’ve ever felt stuck on a path that you took by default, know that change is possible. I’m proof of that. You don’t need an MBA to join me in a life of meaning, connection, and fulfilment as a Recovering MBA.
You were told success
would feel better than this.
— You believed them. So did I. —
For years, I worked inside the system—learning how it operates, how it speaks, how it justifies itself.
Eventually, I started to notice something. The language didn’t quite match reality. The rituals felt rehearsed. The logic… questionable.
Now I write about what actually happens inside ambition—the theatre, the small compromises, the big delusions.
You could call it the perspective of a Recovering MBA.
A Corporate
Lifer Recovers
For many years, I looked like a textbook corporate success story. MBA. Strategic forecasting role at a multinational pharmaceutical company. A sensible career trajectory mapped neatly out in front of me. Then one day a colleague casually described me as a “lifer.”
He didn’t mean it as an insult. But the word landed like a straight-line forecast to nowhere that I didn’t want to come true.
Read More →A WRITING SAMPLER
From the Diary of a Recovering MBA
Start here. A few recent observations plucked from the business headlines and reimagined.
SAMPLER 1
A TINY BITE
A CEO attempts to appear human while eating a hamburger. The camera tells another story.
SPACE FOR TEXT
The shoot had been scheduled to take an hour of the CEO’s time.
It was now entering its fifth hour.
“Let’s just try one more where you sound…natural,” said the Head of Communications, using the same tone one might use with a golden retriever that had not yet mastered the concept of sit.
Enhancing Our Culture of Travelscrimping
Where cost control meets budget hotel reality.
A TRANSPARENT FAILURE
An athleisure product works exactly as designed. Unfortunately.
A Good Boss Is Hard to Find
A sharp, darkly funny collection about the hidden logic of corporate life—the rituals we perform, the compromises we rationalize, and the moments when something feels off… but we keep going anyway.
Smart without being smug.
Fun without being fluff.
Just unsettling enough to feel familiar.
READY TO STOP PRETENDING THE DECK MATTERS?