How Starbucks Saved My Life: A Son of Privilege Learns to Live Like Everyone Else

How Starbucks Saved My Life, an autobiography, was written by Michael Gates Gill. Gill graduated from Yale with a degree in Art History. He quickly and effortlessly obtained a job working for the famous J. Walter Thompson – an international marketing firm. Michael gradually worked his way up in the company and advertising industry. One day, when he was fifty-three, Mike went to dinner with someone higher up in the company – Linda. On his way to dinner, Mike, a six-foot tall, blue eyed, balding man, instinctively knew the inevitable. Linda, a young aspiring female, arranged this dinner to fire Mike. “You had to kill to get in the mafia. Linda would make her bones this day.” Mike was lost: his job was no more, his steady income was nonexistent, and his life no longer lived within, or so he thought. After leaving the company, Mike, a fifty-three-year-old, started his own advertising business – soon to prove a failure. Mike sat in a New York coffee shop one day for his daily latte. Sitting alone and old in Starbucks, a manager by the name of Crystal approached him and offered him a job: the job that would soon save his life. “Crystal had given me a chance – maybe my last chance – to stop my downward spiral.” Mike had no income; he had divorced his wife and was diagnosed with Acoustic Neuroma, a tumor on his brain causing ringing sensations and hearing loss. With this series of unfortunate events, Mike figures out what truly matters in life. “You only live one life; take it from me, live it wisely. Weigh your priorities.” How Starbucks Saved My Life will give you an insight on one of the leading coffee companies, giving you a taste of the work ethic and love people have for their jobs. All this adds the foam to the latte of tumultuous events in Michael Gates Gill’s life. A book with copious flashbacks, which were a nuisance because they seemed to outnumber the book’s events; aside from this nuisance, you will find this autobiography hard to close. B+

When the charmed life of a middle-aged man comes to an abrupt end, he finds solace and strength to build a new life and embrace new values through the support of his much younger Starbucks colleagues.

this book is a really good book. it tells about a good strong life lesson and it can help us in life. Michael learns how to live like a regular person. this book is a really good book and i would really recommend this book to many people!