Chandola prashant (5 Ergebnisse)

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - You didn't get robbed in an alley. You agreed to terms and conditions you didn't read, walked into a grocery store for milk, and paid $84 for situational cheese.Payday is a short-lived miracle with a three-day warranty.There is a sacred moment every month: your phone chimes, a deposit lands, and for approximately fifty-four minutes, you feel like a sovereign monarch with financial sovereignty. By dinner, your paycheck has been divided, subjugated, and marched off to satisfy obligations it never personally incurred.You didn't splurge on diamonds. You didn't buy a yacht. So where did the money go In The Great Money Escape: Why My Money Disappears and Why I Let It Go, author and observational humorist Prashant Chandola (Writer Don) leads a laugh-out-loud, unsparing investigation into the polite, micro-heists that quietly drain perfectly good bank accounts.Inside this slightly accurate field guide, you will discover: The Autopay Serial KillersHow $9.99 charges hide behind rent like minnows behind a shark, draining hundreds in silent subscriptions for a 'better self' that never showed up.The Grocery Store HeistWhy the milk is always placed at the furthest corner of the store and why a cavernous shopping cart makes you shop with hungry ambition.Friendship vs. $400The psychological hostage crisis that begins the second you say 'Don't worry about it, pay me whenever.'Festival Math & Wedding WoundsThe terrifying arithmetic families perform when emotion is high and restraint is low-and how 'people will talk' funds endless overspending.The Boring SuperpowerWhy safety feels like absolutely nothing-and why automating your savings before 9 a.m. on payday is the only cage money can't slip out of.'A witty, field-tested autopsy of why cash vanishes the moment it hits your account - and how to outsmart the polite little heists that leave you broke by the tenth.'.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - He came to London looking for opportunity.He found betrayal, bankruptcy, British bureaucracy-and eventually, a snack business.Because when life bowls you a googly, you either get out. or learn to play it.======================================================================A Googly in LondonA Sporting Farce of Cricket, Cash, and Capital ChaosHe came to London looking for opportunity. He found betrayal, bankruptcy, British bureaucracy-and eventually, a snack business.What happens when a cricket-obsessed dreamer enters the cutthroat world of money believing that a handshake means something He learns the hard way.A Googly in London is a hilarious, warm-hearted and wildly unpredictable comic memoir about cricket, cash, culture shock, bad decisions, second chances, and the ridiculous business of trying to make a life in a foreign country.Fresh from Mumbai and armed with ambition, optimism and a lifelong love of cricket, our narrator arrives in London expecting opportunity.Instead, he encounters Harold.Charming. Helpful. Cricket-loving.Trustworthy Well. that's where things get interesting.A promising business opportunity becomes a financial nightmare. Money disappears. Trust evaporates. And the narrator is left wondering whether he has travelled halfway across the world only to be bowled out before his innings has even begun.But in cricket, as in life, the match isn't over after one bad ball.What follows is a chaotic journey through London's immigrant life and the strange world of small business-complete with disastrous cooking, council tax confusion, competitive eating, questionable deals, failed shipments, eccentric customers, family wisdom, cultural collisions, and the unforgettable Mrs. Patel, whose practical lessons in business and trust begin to change everything.Slowly, painfully, hilariously, the narrator discovers that success isn't about spotting the biggest opportunity.It's about watching the ball.It's about knowing who is bowling.It's about reading the fine print.And sometimes, it's about getting back to the crease after everyone assumes you're finished.From the cricket grounds of childhood to the streets of London, from financial disaster to the beginnings of a snack empire, A Googly in London turns the language of cricket into a surprisingly perfect map for surviving money, business, friendship, failure and life.Funny. Chaotic. Sharp. Occasionally disastrous. And ultimately uplifting.If you've ever trusted the wrong person, made a spectacularly bad decision, started again from scratch, or wondered what on earth you were doing with your life, you may recognise yourself somewhere in these pages.Because life doesn't always deliver a straight ball.Sometimes it swings.Sometimes it bounces.Sometimes it hits you where it hurts.And sometimes-it bowls you a googly.Welcome to London.The innings has begun.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware.