This book is a memoir of Michael Gates Gill, a fortunate man who managed to get a job in an advertising company immediately after graduating from Yale University. After working at this company for over 25 years, he was asked to leave because he was getting too old. Unfortunately, he has five children who need to be taken care of, and he is rapidly running out of money.
One random day, he is offered a job at a local Starbucks by a young, African-American woman. After much determination, Mike gets the position and tells the story of how he went from someone who enjoyed the luxury of coffee to someone who cleaned the bathroom of the coffee place.
I thought this was an okay book that was overall worth reading. A good portion of the book involves recollections of past events that sometimes do not have an obvious or apparent connection to the main idea of the book. Otherwise, I think this book teaches a valuable lesson about the importance of family and back-up plans.
Technology and Starbucks
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Topic #196: People are too dependent on technology: agree or disagree? Explain.
I agree that people are too dependent on technology, but I don’t really see this as that much of a bad thing. Of course, technology can go wrong and we might be left in the dark (figuratively and literally), but it’s not like our entire race is going to die if we don’t have the proper technology. This dependency on technology is helping us live more efficient lives, and if the technology were to ever be taken away from us, we would most likely be able to develop different technologies to get back to normal.
What I’m Reading
Following the suggestion of Benjamin Chow, I recently read How Starbucks Saved My Life: A Son of Privilege Learns to Live Like Everyone Else by Michael Gates Gill.
This book is a memoir of Michael Gates Gill, a fortunate man who managed to get a job in an advertising company immediately after graduating from Yale University. After working at this company for over 25 years, he was asked to leave because he was getting too old. Unfortunately, he has five children who need to be taken care of, and he is rapidly running out of money.
One random day, he is offered a job at a local Starbucks by a young, African-American woman. After much determination, Mike gets the position and tells the story of how he went from someone who enjoyed the luxury of coffee to someone who cleaned the bathroom of the coffee place.
I thought this was an okay book that was overall worth reading. A good portion of the book involves recollections of past events that sometimes do not have an obvious or apparent connection to the main idea of the book. Otherwise, I think this book teaches a valuable lesson about the importance of family and back-up plans.
This book is a memoir of Michael Gates Gill, a fortunate man who managed to get a job in an advertising company immediately after graduating from Yale University. After working at this company for over 25 years, he was asked to leave because he was getting too old. Unfortunately, he has five children who need to be taken care of, and he is rapidly running out of money.
One random day, he is offered a job at a local Starbucks by a young, African-American woman. After much determination, Mike gets the position and tells the story of how he went from someone who enjoyed the luxury of coffee to someone who cleaned the bathroom of the coffee place.
I thought this was an okay book that was overall worth reading. A good portion of the book involves recollections of past events that sometimes do not have an obvious or apparent connection to the main idea of the book. Otherwise, I think this book teaches a valuable lesson about the importance of family and back-up plans.