Chapter 3 of my novel details the protagonist's interview for a dean's position in a proprietary, for-profit business school. Although the novel is fiction, this chapter (as with many others) closely parallels my own experience in my first academic posting for a similar position in NYC in the late 1980s. My girlfriend's reaction at the time (now my wife) parallels the protagonist's girlfriend's reactions exactly. Some of the humor in these early chapters--including the examples used by the protagonist's girlfriend in holding up a mirror to his naivete are also based on my actual experiences--including the four gentlemen in a car offering me a management-training position at a bus stop while I waited for a bus to take me to my part-time job. Fact is often stranger than fiction, and common sense is too often inversely proportional to intelligence--especially when dealing with idealists of all ages. You can preview 20% of the novel and most of my current published books at my Amazon author's page at https://www.amazon.com/Victor-D.-L%25C3%25B3pez/e/B001KMII74%3Fref=dbs_a_mng_rwt_scns_share or at any major bookseller's site. As always, thank you for your support.

This is meant as a teaser for my novel which involves a fictionalized version of my experiences in my first academic posting as the dean of a for-profit business school in circumstances not very different from those of the fictional protagonist. You can sample 20 percent of the novel at Amazon and other booksellers, and until January 15, 2022 you can download the full ebook versions of the novel at a 40 percent discount, but only at https://www.smashwords.com/books/view/1071699 by using the coupon code GL56P at checkout. The novel is also available in paperback, hardcover and ebook versions at Amazon and most booksellers.