So this is all new to me. Wait… My name is Greg. Anyways, this is day one of deciding that I’m going to make a Youtube channel and webpage with the goal of sharing my knowledge and experience with the world in hopes of helping others improve their careers, skill sets, knowledge, and lives.
I’m a heavy duty truck mechanic with around twenty years of experience at this point in my life. While I am proficient at writing and reading, I personally don’t enjoy reading paragraph after paragraph when I’m looking for information or trying to learn something new. Like the stereotypical mechanic, I prefer not to read the instructions. Often, if I do read the instructions, I do it my own way anyways. So, in an effort to express myself quickly and efficiently, I think you’ll see a lot of bullet points and short paragraphs in my posts. I want this to be easy to consume.
So this is me and my home life:
- Protestant Christian – thankful and happy member of a non-denominational Baptistic church
- Married to Krissy for 14 years
- Six kids: Eliza (9), Rose (7), Ivy (6), Hazel (4), Simon (2), and another of an unknown gender on the way
- Lived in Ohio all of my life
- Still carry a flip phone
- Started my own shop three weeks before my oldest was born
- We are not the typical American family
- We are quite self sufficient
- Our last two kids were homebirths and Krissy is starting a professional doula business (think midwife-ish)
- We homeschool.
Here is why you should listen to what I have to say:
- I’ve got a great life and I enjoy it. I wouldn’t want to change any of it.
- I’ve got a lot of experience and I’ve been paid to do a lot of things that most mechanics and shops never experience.
- I’m not an idiot and I still have all of my fingers.
- I’ve got a lot of kids. My wife has been a stay-at-home mom for eight years now. The only personal debt we have is the house loan and the shop building loan. The business has no debt. My career is paying for this lifestyle.
- My shop is also employing my brother (and partner) and paying for his family’s lifestyle (Stay-at-home mom, four daughters, homeschool)
- We have one employee who seems to love his job and is grateful for it – as we are also grateful to have him.
- I tend to think outside of the box. I can’t think for you but I can help you look at things from a different perspective.
- I want to help others be successful. I want to help others reach the point in life that I’m at right now.
Here’s why I’m doing this:
- I love building things. I love projects. I know few people personally that have entered into as many different hobbies and projects as me and my wife.
- I want to help others with info that would have helped me.
- I want to help others with info that I regularly find my customers do not know but would benefit from.
- I have no retirement and do not plan on retiring – but wisdom says I need to start investing in something that will provide some passive income. I hope to create value here that some people find worthwhile enough to compensate me for it.
- I want to create a library of knowledge that Simon, my two year old son, can watch and learn from as he grows up. He doesn’t have to be a mechanic but I’d be happy to hand the business to him if I were to feel that he could handle it. Even if he doesn’t want to be a mechanic, I will expect him to learn the basics of the skill. It’s one of the most valuable things I possess and can give to him.
Smiles per Gallon 