Dad, Roger and I were salaried employees. Dad worked 40 years for International Harvester. When I started college, out-of-blue he gave me his only career advice “Never work for a big company.” Now I didn’t get paid a salary. I got paid only when a project was completed and my customer was delighted. And made sure of that with a “money-back guarantee.”

I started a pattern of job changes. Big company number one to big company for more money and a bigger title. After being “let go” from my ninth big company with an International Vice President title and a six-figure salary, I started my own company and discovered I liked working for me, rather than someone else. Most importantly, I loved helping people and companies achieve their goals.

Dad, Roger and I were salaried employees. From our entry-level job. To our years in management. Someone higher up the employment ladder always controlled how much money we made. That stopped when I left the corporate world and started my own business. Customers who liked that I helped them paid me. Again, I loved helping people and companies make money by helping their customers.

Three years after I graduated from college. I met a pretty, blonde divorcee with a two-year-old daughter. We dated for a year. We fell in love and got married. I adopted her daughter. Two years later we had our second daughter. Out-of-blue 16 years later my wife ran off with her boss of three months and divorced me. I wanted to die.

I had my first date three years later. And many, many more after that. Until after 13 years being an unhappy single guy, I was fixed up by a fraternity brother with his divorced younger sister. She had an eleven-year-old-daughter who took an instant dislike to me. I then got Stage Four brain cancer. She supported me through it. And we finally got married. Happily I’m blessed to say. Once more I love helping men and women find their soulmate.