How Starbucks Saved My Life
A Son of Privilege Learns to Live Like Everyone Else
by Michael Gates Gill, Michael Gill · first published 2007
100% recommend
In his fifties, Michael Gates Gill had it all: a big house in the suburbs, a loving family, and a top job at an ad agency with a six-figure salary. By the time he turned sixty, he had lost everything except his Ivy League education and his sense of entitlement. First, he was downsized at work. Next, an affair ended his twenty-year marriage. Then, he was diagnosed with a slow-growing brain tumor, prognosis undetermined. Around the same time, his girlfriend gave birth to a son. Gill had no money, no health insurance, and no prospects.One day as Gill sat in a Manhattan Starbucks with his last aff
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on “Starbucks to Provide Free College Education to Thousands of Workers” ↗How Starbucks Saved My Life [1] is a good read along those lines, although it's highly dependent on how much sympathy you feel for the author and his responsibility for his circumstances. I think there's a universal appeal, especially…
on “An Honest Living” ↗I am sorry that you are going through this. May I recommend a book? "How Starbucks Saved My Life: A Son of Privilege Learns to Live Like Everyone Else" by Michael Gates Gill. It isn't going to solve your problems, but it may give your mind a rest for a few minutes per day. The author unexpectedly…
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