My first book is one of my favorites; You Want Fries with That: A White-Collar Burnout Experiences Life at Minimum Wage by Prioleau Alexander (pronounced: alex-and-er). The author is a retired Marine Corp officer who was working as an advertising executive when one day he decides he can't take it anymore. Instead of dropping all the way out of society, as our pot smoking hippie fore fathers did, he decides to simply drop down a few notches on the food chain instead. He walks a mile in the moccasins of minimum wage employees everywhere by taking on various positions that we come in contact with every day but pay little attention to. From ice cream scooper to pizza delivery guy, Prioleau shares his experiences with humor and respect for the people doing these jobs with him as well as the jobs themselves. Not only is this book hysterical (It is laugh out loud funny. Seriously, I was reading it on a plane from San Diego to Denver and I actually laughed out loud.) it also makes the reader take pause and think about the challenges faced by the service industry people around us whom we never give a second thought to and allows us to appreciate them a little more than we did before. (Since most people treat the people who serve them like they have a communicable disease, I realize there is really no where to go but up, but I digress....).
This is a relativly short read at only 264 pages and it is so good you'll be done with it long before you want it to end. If I had some lame rating system, like 5 Stars or Platinum Level, I would give it the highest rating. But I don't, so suffice it to say you should go buy it immediately and start reading it tonight.
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