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I'm Erik, 41, single... sorry, not the site for that.
But yeah, I'm Erik, 41 as of a couple months ago. Currently, I'm living in Las Vegas, have been for since 2009. I retired from the Air Force at the beginning of 2015. Trying to get my feet under me after 20 years of military life. For 20 years I worked Security Forces (Security Police/Military Police) in the military, got to see some great places, see some horrible sites and had a great time overall. Lived in Japan for 2 years; Izmir, Turkey for a year and was stationed in Las Vegas and Washington DC when I was stateside.
Currently working an Executive Protection job, pay is pretty good, training is awesome and the coworkers are all ex-military, so maybe I fit in a little to well. Family is very well off and have a contracted security team 24 hours a day, so it's a different world. Can't reveal much about the who and what, but the amounts of money being thrown around are insane and the family life is very different from what I'm used to.
Also I have a 12 year old daughter that lives with me full time. This last school year was the first time she was with me instead of her mom and it has been one of the most trying times of my life by far, the military hardships had nothing on this. But we're getting there, its been a learning process for both of us.
I have a two product ideas that I have gave a lot of thought to. Picked the one that looked slightly easier to break into and am working on that now. Boring business, with a couple of other players already well established, however I am taking ideas from other markets as to how to build the brand. I have lots of information to comb through and rewrite into something to put on a website that should help it sell. Looking at my options for a website/e-store setup/design/build. Thinking hard about marketing and how to get it in front of the eyeballs that it is marketed towards.
I retired from the military at the rank of E-7/Master Sergeant and learned more in the last 3 years than I did in the first 17. I became the Operations Superintendent (operations manager, maybe COO in layman terms) and had about 250 people under me working around the clock and deploying all over the world. I realized soon after taking the job that the tasks I was nervous about were the best ones to take. I remember sitting in staff meetings many times and the Commander saying he needed someone to take on a big project, most people would try to avoid eye contact and hope they didn't get picked. I made it a habit to routinely say I'll do it. I learned quick that the people that already know what to do just didn't want to do the work, but would be happy to help. I just had to go ask, sometimes setting up meetings all over the base to get the ball rolling. I rarely had these projects go bad, but I may have spent more hours than I cared to on some of them. And sometimes the stress was through the roof. But after about a year, I was the guy to go to with questions on projects, invited to meetings just to get my perspective and asked to brief the Generals because I could recite large amounts of info off the top of my head without much prep.
Overall, I hope I can take some of those skills and add some new ones to build a mousetrap in a slightly better wrapper than some well established companies and prosper along the way.
I've typed far more than I want to already, so I'm off to the Millionaire Fastlane and Unscripted threads to let everybody know I read them.
I'm Erik, 41, single... sorry, not the site for that.
But yeah, I'm Erik, 41 as of a couple months ago. Currently, I'm living in Las Vegas, have been for since 2009. I retired from the Air Force at the beginning of 2015. Trying to get my feet under me after 20 years of military life. For 20 years I worked Security Forces (Security Police/Military Police) in the military, got to see some great places, see some horrible sites and had a great time overall. Lived in Japan for 2 years; Izmir, Turkey for a year and was stationed in Las Vegas and Washington DC when I was stateside.
Currently working an Executive Protection job, pay is pretty good, training is awesome and the coworkers are all ex-military, so maybe I fit in a little to well. Family is very well off and have a contracted security team 24 hours a day, so it's a different world. Can't reveal much about the who and what, but the amounts of money being thrown around are insane and the family life is very different from what I'm used to.
Also I have a 12 year old daughter that lives with me full time. This last school year was the first time she was with me instead of her mom and it has been one of the most trying times of my life by far, the military hardships had nothing on this. But we're getting there, its been a learning process for both of us.
I have a two product ideas that I have gave a lot of thought to. Picked the one that looked slightly easier to break into and am working on that now. Boring business, with a couple of other players already well established, however I am taking ideas from other markets as to how to build the brand. I have lots of information to comb through and rewrite into something to put on a website that should help it sell. Looking at my options for a website/e-store setup/design/build. Thinking hard about marketing and how to get it in front of the eyeballs that it is marketed towards.
I retired from the military at the rank of E-7/Master Sergeant and learned more in the last 3 years than I did in the first 17. I became the Operations Superintendent (operations manager, maybe COO in layman terms) and had about 250 people under me working around the clock and deploying all over the world. I realized soon after taking the job that the tasks I was nervous about were the best ones to take. I remember sitting in staff meetings many times and the Commander saying he needed someone to take on a big project, most people would try to avoid eye contact and hope they didn't get picked. I made it a habit to routinely say I'll do it. I learned quick that the people that already know what to do just didn't want to do the work, but would be happy to help. I just had to go ask, sometimes setting up meetings all over the base to get the ball rolling. I rarely had these projects go bad, but I may have spent more hours than I cared to on some of them. And sometimes the stress was through the roof. But after about a year, I was the guy to go to with questions on projects, invited to meetings just to get my perspective and asked to brief the Generals because I could recite large amounts of info off the top of my head without much prep.
Overall, I hope I can take some of those skills and add some new ones to build a mousetrap in a slightly better wrapper than some well established companies and prosper along the way.
I've typed far more than I want to already, so I'm off to the Millionaire Fastlane and Unscripted threads to let everybody know I read them.
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