Rethinking Work in Midlife + Beyond
The Escape Committee helps you find ideas, intelligence, real-world examples and practical experiments for figuring out what comes next.
BRIEFING ROOM
What’s happening. What matters. What we’ve noticed.
MAP ROOM
People doing things differently. Routes worth exploring.
WORKSHOP
Tools, experiments and practical things to experience.
RESTRICTED – COMMITTEE USE ONLY
Escaping From What?
SUBJECT CLASSIFICATION – SIX RECOGNISED CONDITIONS
01
Work that no longer fits
A role that once worked, now feels disconnected, draining, and hard to justify.
02
The “is this it?” feeling
A quiet, persistent sense something’s missing. No clear alternative in sight.
03
The slow drift
Life moving forward, but you’re not. Just slowly losing energy, interest, and direction.
04
The default life script
Following a path you never questioned. It’s what everyone else seemed to do.
05
Busy, not moving
Full days, constant activity, but no meaningful progress toward anything that actually matters.
06
The fear it’s too late
A creeping belief that change is unrealistic now. You’ve missed your opportunity?
THE ESCAPE COMMITTEE -If any of these feel familiar, you’re in the right place
ACCESS REQUEST
NO COST – NO OBLIGATION
JOIN THE COMMITTEE
MEMBERSHIP BENEFITS – WHAT TO EXPECT
The Escape Committee is a quiet, intelligent space for midlifers rethinking work and life. No hype. No hustle. Just clear thinking, useful signals, and practical moves — delivered twice a week.
WEEKLY
The EC Briefing. Ideas, signals, and practical ways to rethink work. AI, portfolio careers,the second half – examined clearly
MIDWEEK
The Midweek Note. A short observation or idea worth sitting with. Two minutes. One useful thought.
MAPS
Real examples. How others are redesigning their working lives. Not inspiration — patterns worth studying.
TOOLS
Small, practical steps. Experiments and approaches that make change feel possible, not dramatic.
EARLY ACCESS
Guides and resources as they’re developed. Members get first sight.
THE COMMITTEE ROOMS
Inside the Escape Committee you’ll find three working rooms. Each serves a different purpose.
Briefing Room
Where we look at what’s really going on.
Signals, stories and conversations about work, midlife and the world changing around us.
What we’re noticing.
What we’re questioning.
What might matter.
Map Room
Where we explore what else is possible.
Different ways to redesign work and life beyond the traditional script.
Portfolio careers.
Independent paths.
New ways of earning.
Different ways of living.
Workshop
Where ideas get put to work.
Tools, experiments and practical ways to change how you work.
AI & leverage.
Simple systems.
Communication.
Small experiments.
THE CHAIRMAN
For most of my working life I followed a fairly traditional path, building a career across several industries including food, toys, and packaging.
Hi, I’m Gary, Chairman of the Escape Committee.
Along the way I worked in roles ranging from Management Accountancy and Operations Management to Customer Care and e-commerce.
On paper it looked sensible enough.
But eventually I reached the point many men quietly reach in midlife — the feeling that the usual path no longer made much sense.
That question set me on a different exploration of work, life, and what the second half might look like.
