Never before had Michael Gates Gill anticipated his fall from grace, as the reality of life forced him out of his high social and financial status following plot lines from some cheesy soap operas. He had never imagined that he would work in a Starbucks outlet to make ends meet, washing toilets, working behind a cash register and serving people, when he used to earn six-figure income as an advertising executive in a leading advertising agency, organizing campaigns for huge clients including Ford and Christian Dior. More surprisingly, he had never thought that he would enjoy and love his new work and new life more than ever, saying that "Losing my job turned out to be a gift in disguise."
How Starbucks Saved My Life is a memoir of the privileged, Yale-educated son of the famed writer of The New Yorker Brendan Gill. It's a story of how Michael Gates Gill started working at Starbucks and developed a new, happier perspective in life.
I like how the author was given a second chance in life and it turned out better than he had expected. It's also nice to know that someone as "high and mighty" as him was afraid of working at the register. Haha...
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