First We Quit Our Jobs: How One Work Driven Couple Got on the Road to a New Life

基本信息出版社:Dell (1997年1月2日)平装:256页正文语种:英语ISBN:044050757X条形码:9780440507574商品尺寸:14 x 1.3 x 21.6 cm商品重量:286 g品牌:DellASIN:044050757X商品描述内容简介A former editor in the publishing industry recounts the year after she and her husband quit their jobs, a period of time during which they took to the roads in an RV and traveled throughout the United States and Canada.编辑推荐Just a few months shy of his 20th anniversary at RCA, Sandy MacGregor got his pink slip. Once the shock wore off, he and his wife, Marilyn J. Abraham, then a vice president and editor at Simon & Schuster, did what any rational couple with more than fifty-two combined years on the corporate fast track would do: they traded in the boardroom for the open road and embarked on a four-month trek across America.First We Quit Our Jobsis Abraham's account of their odyssey. Granted, a Winnebago was not their first choice when the bad news came, but after an attempt to buy a small publishing company in New England fell through, MacGregor and Abraham packed their bags and went in search of their destiny.Part travelogue, part meditation, and part guide to "the road not taken,"First We Quit Our Jobsis a charmingly written chronicle of discovery. As MacGregor and Abrahams began to depart from the way they'd always assumed their lives would go, they found the freedom to shape the way they'd like their lives to be.