After working as a senior marketing manager for Polaroid for 12 years, Dartmouth native Mike Hickey decided it was time for something new.

“Corporate America is a wasteland. They really eat people up and spit them out,” he said in an interview on the back porch of his Padanaram home. “I was searching in my life for what is meaningful.”

That led him to become an author of four books, after establishing a new career path abundant with theology studies and nonprofit work, and even opening a Christian bookstore. His latest book—Get to the End: a Catholic’s View of the End Times delves into what the end of the world looks like, but is different than most books on the subject because it is not written from a Protestant or Fundamentalist slant, said Hickey.

“There are viewpoints that are very very different than the ink that’s been spent on the rapture,” said Hickey.

The book focuses on concepts including the meaning of life, Pierre Teilhard de Chardin’s Omega Point, and salvation.

“That is all something that needs to be demystified,” said Hickey. “It would be difficult to write if I wasn’t Catholic.”

Hickey said he researches and writes on Christian philosophy due to interest, and that he “doesn’t earn virtually any money from the books.”

Hickey’s book—published by Rowman & Littlefield—is currently available for $28.99 on Amazon and Barnes & Noble.

Hickey’s other works include Get Goodness: Virtue Is The Power To Do Good, Get Real: Reality and Mystery, and self-published Get Wisdom.

Hickey currently attends St. Mary’s Catholic Church on Dartmouth Street and runs his own insurance business.