Worked two years in low-paying laboratory jobs. To earn enough money to enroll in and complete graduate school I drove a GMC-620 over the road for exactly one year. When I returned to college I had a pleasant surprise. Due to my high undergraduate grades record I was unexpectedly offered a paid graduate teaching position and scheduled by my advisor directly into the PhD program. After teaching undergraduate classes for a full academtic year I decided to forego an academic career and pure research, largely for financial reasons. My younger brother continued at OSU, earning a PhD in geology that prepared him for working with mining companies and the oil industry. He built his own consulting business in which he did very well. He died years ago and I miss him greatly.
I interviewed in Ohio with Lever Brothers Company, the U.S. division of England's Unilever LTD, one of the world's largest companies. I was hired into a job that offered two years of in-field sales training in the marketing of consumer products. After having consistently led the Ohio sales group monthly for two years, following a promotion I worked four more years with the company in New York in key-account sales, sales promotion, and advertised introductions of several new branded products.
I earned enough money to buy a house up the Huson river in Cold Spring, NY that was an hour and a half scenic train ride into Grand Central Station. Although I found the marketing of consumer products of little real social value, each time I mentioned leaving the company I was retained by the offer of increased salary. After marketing consumer products for six years I moved voluntarily into industrial sales, wanting to become involved with trucks, an interest since boyhood.
Obtaining an interview with U.S. Truck Body Company in Long Island City, NY I was hired as the firm's distributor sales manager and key-account representative. Within two years I became, perhaps, the nation's top truck-body salesman. Working in the truck-body business for six years, I was recruited twice. In my final corporate job I turned around Lyncoach & Truck Company, a troubled division of Instrument Systems Corp., a publicly listed company. I am proud to have saved the jobs for the workers at the largest employer in the city of Troy, Alabama. That company prospers in business today.
Having unexpectedly become a single parent, I moved with my twelve year old son to Worthington, Ohio, the location of Ohio's top rated public school and worked close to home for years. Initially the top salesman for several local businesses, I obtained an Ohio real-estate license. As Columbus Ohio's leading salesman of condominium conversions and the sales of their purchasers' contingently listed houses, I was recruited by the regional sales manager of Century-21 to turn around a troubled agency. Within a year my residental real estate business became the top agency in Century-21's Ohio Region. We won the top award prize in every category: sales, recruiting, listings, and profit. Having met that challenge, I decided to move on vocationally.
I got an Ohio insurance license and became the leading producer in Globe Insurance's Columbus, Ohio office. After reading Consumer Reports booklet about life-insurance I developed Unified Companies: (Unified Insurance Agency and Unified Data Systems). Having been the nation's top Marketing Director for Multi-Financial Corporation, Denver, Colorado, for six years, I wrote the book, Financial Recovery.
My brother, Bob, had been living in Tampa, Florida for several years. After my son married, had a job, and was buying a house, I moved to Sarasota, Florida. Obtaining a Florida insurance license, I sold consumer-oriented health insurance, long-term care coverage, and term life-insurance. When the internet arrived around 1992 I started a personal hobby of creating websites and writing online (some of my links are listed below). My huge work The Big Eye, was originally prepared as an educational website for use in schools that provided computer access to students. It was mentioned in Newsweek magazine and a full page article of my online work, syndicated by Scripps Howard, was published in major newspapers nationally. In later years I to the website my own articles, as well as links to various socio-economic-political matters.
As a member of both Sarasota Memorial Hospital's Health-Fit facility and the Sarasota YMCA, I try to swim twenty pool laps sveral times a week.
FIXED DEFERRED ANNUITIES (Recommended reading)
The above information is archived online. I posted it in 2015 when my office was located in downtown Sarasota. I do not handle variable annuities
THE SEQUENCE OF RETURNS (Critical information)
I do not handle any cash-value ("investment") life-insurances
I do not handle Universal Life-Insurance. See the last five references in my online book's Bibliography.
Highly recommended reading:
ReplaceProbate.com (The Revocable Living Trust) and,
Estate Planning Basics by Jeffrey G Marsocci, Esq.
2004-2008 Togther with my assistant, Sherri, we marketed reverse mortgages appropriately throughout Florida, saving the living quarters for many financially strapped seniors. Trained and appointed agents with HUD's Home Equity Conversion Mortgage
The following links represent years of my personal hobby.
Wait for the archived pages to load. Enjoy the browsing!
The Big Eye: BIGEYE.ORG (formerly bigeye.com)
archived: bigeye.com
News Watch: NEWSWATCH.ORG
archived: newswatch.org
The New Letter to a Generation
Historical: emailclub.com
archived: Featured columnist at VeteransToday 2007-2017
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