About

From Subs to Software

I am a former Navy officer on a fast attack submarine.  What a job for a recent college grad!  I have been places and done things that most will never hear about or do.  Life happened (wife got pregnant) and it kind of made it important that I was home more often so I used my degree to get a entry level software job.  It certainly was not the most fun of my life but it taught me the valuable lessons of:

• Being dependable and diligent even when you think it sucks
• If you want to be a leader, lead! (actually the Navy taught that too but it REALLY became apparent at that job)
• The leader is often not the one shown in the org chart (our leader was several layers down)

Nights and Weekends

Software development is a good paying field.  There is a but though.  Developers work long hours, are typically quite political and have no life other than geeking for the most part.  That is not who I am unfortunately.  In some ways I felt like the square peg in the round hole.  I have been very successful but it was not rewarding.  I have been in the software field for a very long time.  I finally got a break about 10 years ago when I had the opportunity to work with customers.  I loved it!  Since then I have been in customer relationship positions of one kind or another related to technology. 

Why Network Marketing?

If you have read this far, you are probably asking, “why are you doing marketing?”  Good question.  The answer is the people.  I have only recently gotten involved in the business side of a marketing company.  It is pretty interesting that customers are customers no matter where you find them or for what business they are in. 

I have been working hard to absorb this new model and find it fun.  You might think I’m crazy but I am enjoying working on marketing much more than software because of the interaction with interesting folks.  My personal development journey is currently ramping up vigorously because I am reading more than in the past few years.  Interesting authors include: Dale Carnegie, John Maxwell, Tom Hopkins, Robert Kiyosaki, Mike Dillard and others.