About Sam Adams
Samuel Adams, an Atlanta native, attended the University of Georgia. He speaks Mandarin Chinese, has lived on three continents and has been to over 30 countries.
At the age of 23, Adams took a job with a collections law firm whose clients include some of the biggest banks in the U.S.
Starting as a collector, he was quickly promoted to the firm’s sole Training Manager. In this role he taught new-hires the federal and state laws they had to abide by when collecting debts, how to get around those laws by exploiting their loopholes and how to wage effective psychological warfare against the debtor.
Unhappy in an industry he considered immoral, Adams moved to Asia at the age of 25. He spent the next decade there working as an English teacher in Taiwan, a journalist for the China Post , the Training Manager for Bo Le Associates, and finally as an entrepreneur in the Philippines’ booming business process outsourcing sector.
The worldwide recession brought Adams back to the U.S. in 2009 where he – in dire need of a paycheck- returned to the same law firm he left in disgust 10 years prior. It was at this time the seeds of his book The Debtor’s Survival Guide were planted.
Samuel Adams recently left the legal collections industry to focus on his passion for writing.
