 After a prolonged flu, he quit his job and moved to Woodside, California, where he wrote for Forbes magazine and as a consultant in Redwood City, California until he was laid off.Garber had written a manuscript, "In Search of Shabbiness", as a response to the Tom Peters best-seller, "In Search of Excellence".On the advice of literary agents, he rewrote it as the novel "Rascal Money".