You know the feeling. Sunday evening, somewhere around 6 p.m., when the weekend quietly dies and Monday arrives in your chest before it arrives on the calendar.

This book is not a promise that you'll be earning five figures a month from a laptop in Bali by March. It's the unromantic path from trapped to optional — a bridge you build plank by plank while your salary is still funding the construction.

Inside, you'll work out:

• What your hour is genuinely worth, once you subtract the commute, the decompression, and the costs of having the job at all
• Your Freedom Number — usually far smaller than your salary, and often a $70-a-day problem rather than a mountain
• Why you're still there, and how to pick the four locks keeping you
• How to find something people already pay for, instead of waiting to be struck by passion
• How to earn your first $100 outside employment this week, with no website, no logo, and no funnel
• The five green lights that tell you it's actually time to resign — and the two red lights that mean you're about to make a bad decision
• What nobody warns you about: the first 90 days of freedom, when nobody is coming to tell you what to do

Eleven chapters, an exercise in each, and a one-page escape plan at the end.

The goal isn't necessarily to quit. It's to make your job a choice instead of a sentence.