Dimensions
155 x 233 x 23mm
One man's frank, funny and inspiring account of losing his job and finding his life.
Nigel Marsh was a busy if overweight advertising agency executive with a rather hectic home life involving four small children under eight. Then the unthinkable happened: he lost his job. After initial panic (and some rather painful anal surgery) Nigel makes the decision NOT to take the first job that comes along. Instead, he decides to spend a year taking stock, getting fit and being initiated into the strange rites of kindy gym and canteen duty. What follows is a hilarious account of how he learns how to be a parent to his four kids (number three turned out to be twins), loses 20 kilos as he trains to swim the Bondi to Bronte ocean swim, learns how to draw, realises he's an alcoholic and gives up the drink, and discovers that the good things in life can't be bought on your gold Amex. Along the way we discover what men (or this man) really think about sex in marriage, being good dads, work, love, football, kindy gym, self-help books and anal surgery, just for starters. FAT, FORTY AND FIRED is a rare gem, an entertaining and inspiring memoir that both men and women will relate to. It will make a great Father's Day gift, but women will also find it fascinating and revealing. Readers get a glimpse of what is really going on inside men's heads, and how they really feel about all the things that women find important: work-life balance, marriage, health and fitness, parenting, sex and marriage etc. Nigel Marsh says in his introduction, 'I haven't got a catchy slogan that sums up what I learnt from my year off. I do know, however, that Men aren't from Mars and Fat isn't a Feminist issue. Men are from earth and Fat is Fat. I don't claim to have usable wisdom for anyone else. All I can say is that I lived the dream of dropping out and this is how it was for me.'
