To earn more money I drove a large GMC-620 truck, today considered to be a classic, over the road for exactly one year.

After saving enough money, I returned to Columbus, Ohio and enrolled in graduate school. Thanks to having a high under-graduate grade-point average, I was unexpectedly offered a paid graduate teaching assistantship. I taught basic biological science, an elective course, to undergraduates for one full academic year while following my advisor's recommended path of study and independent research designed to earn me a PhD.

When that school year ended, after considerable thought and discussion with my brother who was enrolled in graduate school, his college costs being paid by an employer, I decided to leave academia permanently, bypassing a teaching career in favor of greater financial opportunity. I realized that scientific curiosity could be pursued throughout life as a hobby. It wasn't difficult, in those days, to find a job offering training, a company car, and a steady paycheck.

For the next twelve years I worked with corporations, learning as much as I could. Six years were spent with Lever Brothers Company, the U.S. division of Unilever LTD, one of the world's largest corporations. After working with the company in Ohio for two years, and having had two years of corporate sales training, I was promoted to New York City.

I spent the next four years with the company in key-account sales, sales scripting, new product introductions, and brand marketing. I bought a house in Cold Spring, New York above Hudson River's Bear Mountain Bridge. A trip to midtown Manhattan by train took an hour and a half each way.

After working for six years with Lever Brothers' consumer products, I decided to move into industrial sales. For the next six years I carved out a strong career in the truck equipment industry, handling distributor marketing, customer product development, and direct sales to the nation's leading truck leasing companies (Hertz, Avis, Ryder, Leaseway, National). Spearheading sales for two major truck-body manufacturers, I was recruited to turn around Lyncoach and Truck Company, which I was able to do in less than four months, saving the employees their jobs. The company is prospering to this day.

Having become a single parent of my twelve year old son, after researching Ohio's public schools I teamed up for roughly a decade in Worthington, Ohio (location of the state's top rated public high-school) with a professional nurse practitioner, a divorced highly responsible mother of three, including a boy my son's age.

I read a shocking booklet about life insurance, published by Consumer Reports Magazine. Needing to work close to home, I began a business by conducting two financial training seminars and one public seminar weekly. I created Unified Financial Services and Unified Data Systems.

Within three years my business had grown into three offices with over thirty licensed agents. Each office was managed by an agent trained by me to be a General Agent. I wrote Financial Recovery, expanding the documentation presented by Consumer Reports and scores of other consumer oriented writers.

After my son was married, working, and learning an important business, in order to reconnect with my younger brother who had earned his PhD in geology (Dr. Rock), I moved to Sarasota, Florida. Bob lived in Tampa, Florida. We had ten years together again before he died from cancer. I miss him greatly.

Years earlier, when I entered the early grades in public schools, my parents were told that I fell into a "gifted" category. After I had been "skipped" a couple of grades, school gurus and teachers visited my parents and urged them to enroll me in private schools. Consequently, I attended costly secondary schools and then an expensive, snobbish and over-rated (in those days) private "college prep school" that happened to be located in the same small town as our farm.

For six years after moving to Sarasota I spent evenings at the Cook Library of Florida State University's nearby New College until its 1:00 a.m. closing time for the purpose of acquiring a comprehensive self-directed liberal arts education, augmenting my science background. What I learned in those six years changed my life completely.

When the public digital information revolution arrived in 1992 I bought a Personal Computer and spent hours figuring out how to operate it. Studying the book, DOS for Dummies. I created the earliest online social networking resource, The Email Club, for more than four thousand persons in over fifty countries.

Advancing information technology has historically been a catalyst for dissemination of ideas, knowledge, and progressive social values. Religious dogma, repression, and torture were challenged by the invention of moveable type by Johannes Gutenberg. The printing of books became too popular to remain totally Vatican controlled. Ancient wisdom, formerly laborously copied in monestaries, became available as printing businesses proliferated throughout Europe, particularly in Italy. The Western world's classics, the Hebrew Bible and later, writings by Voltaire, Diderot, Montesquieu, Robespierre, Paine, Jefferson, and others accompanied social revolutions for better or worse.

My country has produced brilliant responsible men and women. Even the best schools I attended, which my parents struggled financially to afford, taught me little or nothing, over years, about their lives and writings. I read biography to research history and to discover their author's writings, values, ideas, and their associates' own biographies. I realized that in order to coherently share my own interesting discoveries I needed to develop my own writing skills.

I read and re-read works of writers whose written language I most admired. There is an easy limpid style in the prose of Randolph Bourne (analogous to Beethoven's musical "lion's paw") exemplified in his famous essay, War is the Health of the State. I love the humorous sarcasm of H.L. Mencken in his famous essay about democracy, and the cool rational analysis of Albert Jay Nock's masterpiece, Our Enemy, The State.

Following six years of independent study I decided to create something of educational value by using the new digital resource, the internet's Worldwide Web. After teaching myself to write HTML code I constructed The Big Eye, an educational website.

When the Netscape web-browser arrived, The Big Eye was listed in Newsweek Magazine's November 20, 1995 issue. It received even greater publicity as the result of a full page St. Petersburg (Florida) Times article that was syndicated by Scripps Howard to the major newspapers throughout the country.

I changed The Big Eye's original URL after selling the domain name. Today "The Big Eye" can be found at WWW.BIGEYE.ORG

Sadly, after retiring from her exemplary nursing career as oncology nurse specialist at Ohio State University Hospital, my former Ohio partner died, ironically, of cancer.

Easily passing FINRA's Series65 examination, I registered Wisebird Financial, LLC. Having studied Henry Abts' book, The Living Trust, and working with the business he founded, I placed online Estate Planning Documents

By studying Google's algorithms I was early to grasp what soon came to be called "SEO" (Search Engine Optimization). Promoting several product lines, I developed profitable affiliate marketing.

Using The Big Eye website and traveling throughout Florida, my assistant, Sherry, and I trained mortgage brokers for four years explaining HUD's HECM reverse mortgage to many financially struggling seniors, saving their homes for them from greedy "line of credit" (2nd mortgage) banks, and relieving them of disheartening lifetime financial struggles.

When the real-estate market crashed in 2008 I bought a tall-rigged sloop and spent the next four years day-sailing with friends. In the evenings I enjoyed reading, as usual, and worked on improving my writing skills.

As a consequence of certain articles written by me and placed on The Big Eye website, I was overwhelmingly flattered, recruited by Gordon Duff, the Senior Editor of Veterans Today, to write as one of their columnists.

Over ten years (2007-2017) that popular website published thirty-four of my columns. After many columns that I wrote for Veterans Today, including those written by others, were oddly deleted, I retrieved several of mine and placed them on a "sister" website that contains my personal and other esoteric articles, located at BigEyeBlog.com