Greetings!
Thank you for stopping by. I appreciate your time and promise to help you make wise use of it here.
Who is this guy?
My name is Guy Wood.
I’m a pretty normal guy with a fairly normal background who loves to learn and try new things.
Even as a young boy, I enjoyed taking things apart to see how they were made and what made them work. Radios, watches, small engines, big engines, pool pumps, bicycles, appliances, whatever I could find.
Most of the time I was able to put whatever I had dismantled back together again, but sometimes I was left with a few stray parts or an inoperative thingamajig.
It was all good, though. I learned from each project — even the failures — and I even managed to make several new things by combining the leftover pieces.
My tinkering started to pay off early as I started working for money at a very young age. I took care of neighbor’s homes and animals when they traveled, mowed lawns, pulled weeds, washed and waxed cars, and babysat.
As a teenager I was the maintenance guy for a private club’s pool. Later, I worked as a lot boy for an RV dealership and then as a locker room attendant at a community pool. During my final couple years of high school, I did retail sales at Sears in the electrical and housewares divisions.
As a side note, I’m not just bragging when I tell you a was a fabulous salesperson. I’ll share how I did it sometime, but for now just know that I used to outsell the entire day shift at Sears during my three-hour after-school shifts. The store’s general manager practically begged me not to leave when I told him I was going to join the Air Force as soon as I graduated from high school. He even offered me, an 18-year old, a division manager’s position if I stuck around.
Moving on, between my high school graduation and now, some forty-something years later, I worked as a:
- US Air Force enlisted Airman (Fire Protection Specialist)
- US Federal Civil Service firefighter
- Insurance agent (life, health, fire, and casualty)
- Print advertising salesman
- Stock broker and financial advisor (NASD 6, 7, and 63)
- House framer
- Upholsterer
- Recreational vehicle salesman
- Pharmaceutical and hospital supplies salesman
- US Air Force officer (wide variety of positions including missile launch operator, Air Force historical researcher and writer, training officer, graduate program instructor, and university administrator)
- High school teacher and department head
- University teacher
In other words, I know a little bit about a lot of things.
Here’s one thing I know: I am a teacher and writer at heart because in nearly every one of those positions, I’ve just naturally migrated to the teaching and training side of the house, and once there I’ve written courses, developed marketing materials, and trained thousands of professionals. Literally! Hey, I’m not just exaggerating here — at last count, I had trained more than 20,000 people!
That was then, but this is now
Well, my body is older now but the little guy inside me still loves to learn new things and develop new skills.
I retired from the Air Force a few years ago and have lived as somewhat of a wanderer since then.
Actually, truth be told, my wife and I have pretty much been wanderers ever since we got married shortly after we graduated from our high school.
Our first home together was on the island of Okinawa, Japan. We moved there as mere kids; I was 19 and she was 18. We’ve lost count of our moves since then but after living in Japan and Europe and several of the states in the US, we bought a boat and moved aboard her as our full time home. Now when we move, our home and our office goes with us!
Anyway, getting back to the learning new stuff thing, these days I’m working in an arena that didn’t even exist until the last decade or so.
In addition to teaching leadership and warfare studies to students from all over the world as an online instructor for a US-based university, I’ve been learning how to build websites aimed at targeted audiences in underserved niches.
My website-building journey has been a little bumpy at times — it has been kinda like building the airplane while it’s already in the air — but I’ll write a lot here about what works and what doesn’t so you don’t make the same mistakes if you’re inclined to follow in my footsteps.
I’ll share tools and techniques that are like money in the bank, along with a few I’ve tried that have flopped.
I’ve also been putting our money to work by following the superb guidance of the guys at Wanderer Financial. Their approach to investing is profitable whether the bulls or bears are running, and it fits our wanderer lifestyle perfectly.
Oh, by the way, you don’t have to be a wanderer to benefit from their advice! And you gain nothing by waiting on the sidelines.
I’ll share more about these guys and their resources as time goes on but in the meantime, visit Wanderer Financial and if you’re interested in getting started (they have some great offers going right now) then click HERE and enter coupon code REFPYLMTBORKE for an additional $50 off your first year’s subscription. [Full disclosure: If you use this code, not only will you save money, but I’ll also earn a referral fee, which will help me buy coffee and fuel for the boat. Thank you!)