My journey began right after I left high school early (1974) to join the U.S. Marines!  My mother, bless her soul was a hard working mom. I learned from her that hard work would not kill anyone. I did not like how strict my mom was, I was a 17 year old man child thinking I knew more, so I enlisted into the Marines to get away from Chicago, crime, drugs, gangs, and moms rules.  As I look back on this I am grateful that I had a mother that loved me enough to have rules and enforce them!

I spent 6 years in the Marines, and enjoyed every year! I traveled to some far away places, Africa, Singapore, London, to name a few! I had several wonderful experiences, but I would name being assigned to Ambassador Shirley Temple Black’s (Ms. Temple was a child star) security detachment (U.S. Embassy Accra, Ghana, West Africa) as the most exciting! After leaving the Marines in 1979 I entered college, majoring in Special Education thinking that I wanted to teach!  Well needless to say once I graduated with my degree in 1983 and began teaching in the public school systems of Chicago my love for teaching was smashed! Too much political and administrative politics for me.  I love children and wanted to be involved in their lives somehow, but teaching was not the route for me.  I also began working on my licenses for Real Estate and Mortgage Banking.  In 1992 I relocated to Colorado where I spent the next ten years as a mortgage professional.

I moved to Oregon in 2003 and married my beautiful wife that same year!   I have been a mortgage banker for over 20 years, with the down turn in the economy I decided to put some of my computer skills to work by starting my own home based business.  Just the tax benefits alone makes my business profitable.  I love helping others in seeing the advantages of working from home. I love to network with positive, optimistic people.

“You can have everything in life that you want if you will just
help enough other people get what they want.” ~Zig Ziglar

“You make a living by what you get, You make a life by what you give…” Winston Churchill