I now have many “retirement jobs“ but it didn’t start out that way. How about you?
Like many, I trudged over, and sometimes through, the normal hurdles in life – college, the USAF and jobs with the IRS, HUD, bank auditor, business broker and traditional business owner.
Today I am a husband, a father, an opa (that’s German for Grandpa) and a term that a friend and I have jokingly called ourselves, i.e. “serial Entrepreneurs”. When not napping, eating or playing, here are some business activities that I focus on:
- Mobile Notary Public – As a Notary Public Knoxville TN I mostly do loan document signings for title companies around the country who have closings in east Tennessee. I also meet people at local coffee shops to “Notarize” documents for them as well.
- International Dental Concierge Service – I saved $8,100 on dental care by traveling to beautiful Costa Rica for dental care. Now I help others do the same. I started a blog at Costa Rica Dental Implantsthat tells our story in words and pictures. We encourage people to contact us with their questions. Anyone facing high dental costs now has an alternative that includes a vacation to the tropics and probably saving a lot of money even after airfare and lodging. The $8,100 we saved was after paying for both of our airfares and lodging. In between dental appointments, we visited the Arenal Volcano and later we went to the Pacific coast for a couple of days. While there, we took a one day sailing and snorkeling trip in the Pacific Ocean in Costa Rica. Here’s us on the sail boat and more photos are at our blog, above.

When I returned in December 2011, I interviewed a second dentist and we now work with him, too. Details for both dentists are at Costa Rica Dentists. - Online entrepreneur – I build websites and do SEO work to help websites rank higher on search engines. I specialize in affordable, small business marketing campaigns.
- Amway IBO – For 17 years, I have helped customers shop for Amway products without bothering them about becoming a business owner. I understand two things about Amway – the products are great and people do not want to be solicited to become an Independent Business Owner (IBO). They just want to shop and be left alone! Customers can register at our Amway business site with or without our help. There are no costs to register, no minimum purchases to make and there are free shipping offers. We setup all our Customers at the same wholesale prices that we pay as IBOs.
- Investing - Nothing big, but I do like to gamble and it’s fun seeing if I can still pick a winner now and then!
- Personal – As with any business owner, personal and business bleed together because when you enjoy what you’re doing, you never work. It’s all play and some other interests include travel, flying small aircraft, ancient history, reading and about a hundred others that would bore you right to sleep so I’ll spare you the rest of the details. You probably have better things to do than reading about my story
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Have you ever heard the acronym for the word job, i.e. ‘just over broke’.
That explains it, doesn’t it? You get by, and even ahead of many, but rich? No, it isn’t going to happen at a job, so you better enjoy what you do. That way it’s not work. Well, I learned that lesson and a few others along the way. How about you?
My focus is on living life to the fullest and that includes using my past business expertise to help others achieve their goals. I am at that age where I want to give back about as much as I want to get ahead. It’s a good balance and I’m enjoying it quite nicely, thank you.
Happy trails . . .
Kurt and Martha Gross
Knoxville, TN USA










