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A former white-collar employee and conservative southerner describes how he walked away from a lucrative career as an advertising executive and spent a year working a series of minimum-wage jobs as a fast-food jockey, a construction worker, and more.
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At age 41, Alexander quit his high-paying position as an advertising executive and decided to take a series of low-paying jobs in order to avoid helping his wife around the house. Over the next year, he worked as a pizza deliveryman, ice cream scooper, fast food jockey, construction worker, ER tech, and even cowboy on a Montana dude ranch. And now, with the publication of this book, add humorist to the list. The moral of the story? "Dropping out is not wise, nor is it freeing. It is, however, pretty funny at times." Annotation ©2008 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
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