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HE WAS THE PREPPY CORPORATE STRATEGIST. HE WAS ALSO THE MOB'S MOST TRUSTED NERD. The author's youth can be described as a crucible of hypervigilance and strategic subterfuge, honed survival aptitudes developed through the ages of 5 and 15. While spending sometimes 40 weekends a year with his German Orthodox Jewish grandparents; living within the Holocaust Survivors Community. these skills became the coin of an extraordinary dual existence. In ""Transferable Skills: Tales of a Mafioso Nerd"", Erik Grob unveils a cinematic, no holds bared autobiography of stark contrasts. He chronicles a journey from a youth fractured by daily emotional abuse of his mentally ill mother and entangled in teenage white-collar crime, to a precarious balancing act between two opposing selves: An educated wet behind the ears Corporate IT Strategist The trusted confidant of a powerful mafia underboss. Central to his narrative is the potent concept of ""transferable skills""-childhood survival aptitudes that blossom into remarkable utility in unforeseen arenas. This autobiography can leave reader asking themselves, ""What are my own transferable skills - what and when were they developed?"" Such self introspection can certainly was cathartic. The author, a Generation X kid, growing up in North Jersey in the 1980's - the height of local mob activity, Grob states that his autobiography, ""....[the book] is a far cry from The Sopranos, Goodfellas, or The Godfather, just read the first chapter."" So that's what we did - click Read Sample and you'll find that the first chapter is available in its entirety.

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