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I Love My Cat Kazzi.

one of myI have been over whelmed with my photography journeys, I soon discovered that my little girl, Kazzi is getting old and I am not spending enough time with her. Kazzi was given to me by a co-worker and being without children and just losing a rescue cat named Bubbles, I see how having a companion pet has made my life so fulfilling. Even though Kazzi is my wife’s (Teresita) favorite, I know if she left my life, I would feel another void in my life.

With all the cameras I own, they cannot talk, and I don’t think if they would step up to plate if I got sick.  This was a wake-up call. Could I walk away from the photo industry, and do something for the millions of Kazzi’s in the United States. Suddenly Kazzi came in the kitchen and “meowed” me and said, you bet. With the inspiration from one my high school buddies, he introduced me to his all inclusive multi-modality small breed concept not is currently available in America today.

I looked down at Kazzi, and asked her what do you think, would you like to tell your friends that there will be a place that will have stellar medical and rehabilitation care that will also be entwined with home healthcare, ambulatory services, a Pet bereavement,  protocol that never has been emphasized by the PET INDUSTRY. Kazzi barked one of her meows  to me  to also mention that she could sick at any time and it better be open 24-7, have  a beauty shop, grooming, boarding, kenneling, day care, schooling, gift store,  and a café for the both of us. Kazzi we are going to take this even farther and offer the use of third parties that will lecture on topics as pet trust, insurance, and nutrition. Customer service is our first commitment, with a strong use of internet and social media. I venture to say to my little girl, I Love My Cat, Kazzi.howiemaui.com

I welcome your ideas and suggestions  and  know if you would like to be a guest blogger on howiemaui.com

Howie Silvers, Kazzi

Is My New Journey Means Changing It’s Routine?

weIt’s been a two and a half journey since I started my new journey . I thought I was going to die a camera salesman, instead it was a 2011  New Years awakening at the age of sixty-five that the party was over and I had to start my life all over again.

I never thought I would have to  start all over again.  My wife  keep needling me that is what I should of expected this when you major in your hobby, photography. In the next eighteen months I learned that my 9-5 job Routine, was not a real journey.

So what is my new journey, and how is my routine going to be different? The first thing I know I will have that I certainly will have more time in my day to discover my new journey.  My routine will be different,  and hopefully exciting. I can now use my cell phone when I want to, go to the wash room when I needed to go. No more lunch schedule, and I no longer had to worry about budgeting  my time, thus the same o same o-Routine.

Sure I could not get away about establishing my new routine, in essence this was the building block for my next journey. So lets look how I changed my routine:

a) Make sure that I have my cup of coffee and a Complete Breakfast. Sorry, no more McDonalds  Drive Thru. ($10.00 of Gas a day and $4 for a Egg Mac Muffin)

b)Checking my favorite Apps I have on my phone, Gmail,AOL Mail, Facebook, LinkedIn, and my two television replacement, Scribd and Audible.com.

c)Find causes that will that I get involve with that will give me joy and satisfaction.

d)Take a hold on my financial game plan.

e) My health and my spirituality are my treasures.

Even though some of my causes have not been so successful, I feel that there will be other ones. It’s just a matter of discovering what other vehicles that are available to me.

I would like to hear from other journsters  would might want to share their journeys on my blog.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

How Big Is Your Corporation?

      Last Friday night I watch favorite TV show, Shark Tank. It’s unbelievable how some of the contestants on this show can get their miracle financial break and land a deal with the SHARKS.
Wouldn’t this be nice to have your own million dollar Corporation, but wait a minute, maybe you do and don’t even know it. Yes, I mean you, me, and perhaps your two year old grand daughter.
For almost seven decades I have been trying to finish and yet to find the perfect path that will give my journey for happiness and a big treasures chest full of diamonds, gold and enough money, to tell and show the people of our Planet Earth that I made it.
      What I now realize that I am the owner a corporation called HowieCorp, and it has  a few employees, my wife Teresita, my  ninety five year old Mom, a  cat name Kazzi, relatives, friends, people I don’t know and of course many enemies. Finally, the answer that I have been searching for, my next journey, has been with me from the time my first relative was cast on Earth,  and all of those people who will be part of my history for many decades after the day I die. Hope not too soon.
     Probably the first thing I must ask myself, that what are the assets Howie Company has, what does it earn and how much does it OWE. Moneywise it does have much, probably a 4-1
ratio of assets to debt ratio, it has a home, a condo, some land, investments, credit card bills and equity loans, a lot of antiquated photo equipment, collectibles that I should of not purchased, a old desk top computer and crappy laptops, cash draining time shares, 2 and half cars( a 1984 Jaguar XJS that hasn’t run in five years, some furniture and  a worthless storage locker.
     However I have another partner in my corporation, my wife. I am on her insurance and she has her savings and a 401k. I wish my mom would live with us(she spends $2500.00 living a subsisted apt.). Between the two of us we are able to keep the corporation is a float and shows a slight  monthly profit.
     Even though I have relatives and friends that do not contribute to my  HowieCorp, I still consider them as my potential stock holders. No matter what I can proudly walk like Bill Gates,
Warren Buffet and My favorite Shark Tanker Mark Cuban, and who knows I just might lucky enough to  go up to  a perfect stranger, a lotto agent and say Welcome, I am the owner of HowieCorp, and if you sell me a winning 100 million dollar lotto ticket  I buy you a new Rolls Royce.

Marc Hauser, A Courageous Lensman and Friend.

    Over the years I had the pleasure and privilege of being able to call many of Chicago’s finest photographers as my friends. They appreciated my photographic knowledge and rewarded me with many invitations to visit their studios. Being an only child, I felt that I was blessed to now have many brothers and sisters that shared my love of photography. After my four decade journey in the photo industry ended on New Years Eve, 2011, I found myself again returning back to my photo roots. For a couple of weeks I never thought if I could ever be able to find my wonderful  family of photographers. Out of the blue, one of my first LinkedIn connections emailed me, Marc Hauser wanted to know if he could do anything for me, and he was sorry to hear that I was no longer at Calumet Photographic, and it was pretty crappy to be fired on New Years Eve.
     What a blast from my photo past. For those who never heard of Marc Hauser, he certainly has earned the title of being one Chicago’s finest Celebrity Portraitlists. Just ask John Cougar Mellancamp, David Copperfield, Woody Allen, Arnold Palmer, Phil Jackson, Mike Ditka,
Dennis  Rodman, Dolly Parton, Walter Payton, The Blues Brothers, Phil Jackson, Sophia Loren,
Dennis Rodman, Julia Roberts, Steve Jobs, Steve Wozniak, Bill Gates, Carly Simon and of course our Chicago Legend,  Michael Jordon. I can see why his photo collection comprised of over 1.7 million negatives have been appraised for eleven million dollars. However whatt someone says its worth is not going to put food on the table until the bank clears the check.    
     No matter how successful of a photographer you are, if do not have good health all the Nikons, Deardorfs, and Hasselblads cannot cure diabetes, and in my friend Marc Hauser case,
give him another leg to stand on. I encourage all of my photographer friends to reach out to Marc, a true Chicago Photographic Legend. Marc has raised many of thousands of dollars through his Groupon photo fund raiser for the Juvenile Diabetes Foundation, a a disease he is now fighting. Marc, you are one are an inspiration, and makes me proud to say.
**************************I am proud to say I am a Photographer.************************************

Kenguru, The Car of the Future-Stacy Zooern

     With all the attention given to the electric automobiles, the likes of Tesla and Nissan, I am very happy to have my third guest blogger Stacy Zoern. Using a wheelchair because of having a congenial neuromuscular disease Stacy felt trapped not having a replacement vehicle after her specialized $80,000 van was crashed. Being an attorney in Austin Texas she needed her four hundred pound wheel chair to stopped being an anchor but a support for the Kenguru, an electric automobile for those in wheel chairs, just simpl  wheel themselves into their new motorized body. The Kenguru is the new electric feet that fits the road.
     After viewing the Kenguru, I would love to have an electric car for under $25,000.00 that will travel sixty miles(up to 25mph) on an eight hour charge. I wonder if Tesla would like to help the
other kids on the block(Kenguru-electric automobile)? Right now Stacy is trying to raise the funds to get the manufacturing in full bloom. Please visit the www.kenguru.com and www.kengurucars.com web sites. Be sure to her Kenguru Facebook page. Hopefully within 12-18 months we will seeing hundreds or maybe even thousands Kenguries happily traveling to places like the grocery stores, their health clubs, and places of worship which were once places
of nightmares to get to, and now they can train their old mares to be a Kenguru stallion.
    I can see myself now with my own Kenguru traveling the shores of Maui, why not I am in the land of howiemaui.com Spread the word, and lets give Stacy Zoern the financial help she needs.

I wish I knew this when I lost my job.

    This week a Chicago Photo store institution, Calumet Photographic shut it’s doors in the United States after having an incredible seventy-five year run. For me my four decade journey ended on New Years Eve, 2011. It was not the way I wanted to begin my 2012, but I knew I had no choice,
I was sixty five years old and I was petty scared that I suddenly found myself being a Has Been,
and perhaps had to come to the realization that I wasted my time in college majoring in my hobby.

     As I looked at my cup of coffee(many more to come), I knew I needed more than another job, but a new journey that would make all of my past experiences a reason why I should go on and be proud of myself. I finally realized that I had a brand new life ahead of me and I have  so much to give of myself. Wow, it’s like being born again. Nobody forced me to work at one place for nineteen years, I met many photographers, be with great co-workers, and who knows, maybe my path might cross Calumet again, so here goes, I wish somebody would had given me a list of what I needed to help me for my new journey, (I cannot be responsible if this list does not work for you).

1. I can’t change what happened, be grateful that I had good heath and dental insurance, started a 401k, brought a house, many cars, took a lot of vacations, something I now regret, brought too much photographic equipment.

2. Respect your co-workers. They feel terrible about my plight, but they have to worry about their situation, It’s like getting “Unemploymentitis”, Who is going to be the next one to get fired?

3. Get a good computer, it made my life a lot easier, whether it’s new or used, it has made a big difference in my journey. Never realized that I would be spending so much time on my my computer, oh yeah, wish I knew how to type.

4. I was very grateful that I have a new boss, my wife. She has been my main supporter and she has a lot more pressure now that I am not working. Making the bed correctly and washing the dishes will certainly make a big difference in my marriage, believe there were plenty of times I was glad I was using paper plates. Be prepared to have many periods of frustrations, and I had to keep my mouth SHUT.

5. Money,money and money. Not having the income I had be fore I was canned, I never gave it any thought what would this day mean. I never exactly knew how much money I needed each month, I hate to say this, I wish I never had a credit card card, yet alone some fifteen cards. I am glad that I got an equity line of credit on my house to lower my credit card bills. I wouldn’t of been able to do this now after losing my job.

6. Tell the world who you are and how to get a hold of you. There many times I wanted to get a hold of my former co-workers and their phone numbers were unlisted.

7. It’s been a long time since I went to the unemployment office. Be prepared to be with some very pissed off people. I must say that the people working there are just doing there jobs and don’t expect them to cry on your shoulders. Just bring a copy of your social security number(w-2) and a good pen.

8. Don’t spend a lot of money or time on your resume, just go to as many interviews, job fairs, church job support groups as you can, and after awhile a few prayers might help.

9. Once you are on unemployment benefits, you have to keep a record of all the jobs you have visited. This is where having a good computer is needed. I found myself with 10,000 job emails.Thank you monster, indeed, snagajob, and ziprecruiter.com.

10 I discovered the world of LINKEDIN. It was my opportunity to tell the world that I am now unemployed, retired or in my case I was fortunate to be a volunteer for Dennis Manarchy in helping him get awareness and funds for his now www.butterfliesandbuffalo.com photography project, Dennis just finished building his 35′ film camera that will be using a six foot film negative.

11 Linkedin discussion groups and inMails. I learned that it’s not what you know but who you know that might get you the right job. Upgrading my Linkedin to a business account gave more inMails to send, and I was able to see who was looking at my profile. The 1000 connections and the fifty discussion groups I belong to also made me the proud owner of over 20,000 emails. At least I had something to show the state of Illinois that I was trying to find a job.

12 Health insurance and staying in good health. Why do so many people put them selves at risk by thinking that they have to celebrate and over eat to have a good time. Sickness can be worst than being unemployed, I tried to take care of myself, but now that I am unemployed it’s a must to be in the best of shape. I am lucky to be on my wife’s insurance, but for those who find themselves without insurance, be glad that there is Obama Care.

13 Know how much money you need each month and start figuring out what you can start giving up. Don’t need to go out to eat as much, and start using the car less. Go to thrift shops and stay away from the malls. Oh yeah, I hate to say this one, all those 99cnts I spent playing Candy Saga has to stop. This is a big one, the bomb, I played the lotto for over thirty years, and wish I repeat the $15000.00 I  pissed away.

14 Don’t be ashamed that you are unemployed, let people people help you. The best customer is when you are someone else customer. In fact there has been many times I found myself calling my fellow unemployed friends that I found a great job posting.

15 In the old days baby sitting and having a newspaper route were some of our first jobs, now we have eBay, Uber, and trying to get a job at Walmart, Cosco, or Aldis. Don’t be picky.

16 Don’t be ashamed to get help from your parents, or even better, just like your parents helped you with everything, maybe you can have mom or dad live with you.

17  Alumni associations, or paternal organizations, and going to church or synagogue. The more people you meet and network the better chance you will have finding a job. Going to a few baseball games might be another way of getting the word out.

18 Be aware of those so call schools that will soon follow you. For me I thought it might be a good idea to go back to school and be a medical coder. Going to school for just ten months at night seemed cool, but the $14,000.00 tuition was certainly a lot more I could afford. Besides I was not allowed to go back to school and still be able to collect unemployment.

19 Telephone calls, be prepared to make hours of them, if you don’t have unlimited calls on your cell phone, having a Skype phone  can save you a fortune.

20 Make a calling card like a business card to give people. The more people you talk to the better chance you have landing a job. Like I said before, recruiters have seen thousand of resumes, they are trying to find the right person for their company, one who looks and sounds good. Always be yourself. Don’t get discouraged.

21 Find out from your state’s unemployment office if there is a certain amount of compensation you can earn and still receive your full unemployment benefits.

22 Being a camera salesman fr some four decades, I never gave it much thought about being on the other side of the camera. Get a some photos and maybe there might be some extra money to be made in modeling, performing or comedy. No matter what I think your next job recruiter will find it refreshing having your photos on file, and it won’t hurt to offer your services to him, a family portrait, or a good head shot for his next job interview.

23 This is a tough one to swallow, and a long shot, try to find out if there is any remote chance that any other company might be able to take over your company. Just like in the case of Chicago’s Dominick’s stores, many of them are being converted to other food stores.

24 Photography is not the only visual profession in town, I wish I pursued the motion picture industry instead of photography. One of my Linkedin discussion groups talks and share ideas pertaining to The American Society of Cinematographers.

25 Make a list of the products and services you like, and see if you can get a job for them. Just like I loved selling cameras, I would love to be a salesman at a Sprint store selling cell phones.

26 When filling out a job application look for key words, experienced, friendly, and hard working are words that the computer uses to sort out job applications to the next level in your job process. USE some of these words in making a new resume. I really think with all of the applications companies receives, its the computer who makes the final decision on who the company should consider.

27 just received this from Doug Brooks along with his wife Debbie owns Van Kirk Photography. This is very important for those who found themselves without having health insurance. Howie..

It’s really sad the news about Calumet.  We can only hope someone comes to the rescue and many of the employees are rehired.

Regarding health insurance:  There are 2 options I can think of for them, my experience includes having lost my corporate job 2+ years ago.
1.  If the coverage that they had was pretty good they should look to see if COBRA is an option.  I carried COBRA for the 18 months allowed as the corp insurance I had was fabulous and what I could buy as an individual sucked.
2.  The affordable healthcare act says folks need to be insured by 3/31/14.  I believe there are fines if not but don’t know how losing a job a week before that deadline.  They should each go to healthcare.gov , register, and shop for insurance.  Because they are unemployed today they will report zero income.  This will result in them being registered as Medicaid insured.  While we don’t want to be Medicaid insured there are three positive things that come of this.
1.  They won’t be fined under the guidelines of the Affordable Healthcare Act.
2.  They will have coverage in the event they need it.
3.   This will give them time to become insured under a private plan or to find employment with coverage.
If they want to explore policies and see if they can receive a federal subsidy then here’s an important hint when answering questions on the website.  One of the questions is about income.  If they answer it honestly they will be placed in Medicaid.  However, if they look at the last 12 full months of employment (or, if they are new hires whatever number of full months they worked,) and average their monthly income and enter that figure… they will be able to shop insurance.
They can also go to BCBS of IL and shop insurance to see what policy they like.. then go to healthcare.gov
Finally, and this is huge.   If they don’t like where they get on the website and the website won’t let them delete the registration and start over.. .all they need to do is start over using a different email address… that will get them past a ‘locked’ registration that they don’t like.
I hope this helps.. feel free to share.

Doug

28 You don’t have to go out and get drunk and feel sorry for yourself, it’s simply cheaper and safer to just drink at home. Who knows what you might say at a bar, it might hurt you later.

29  After getting fired, get the hell away the company, You ain’t coming back, get out and take your 401k with you. I just found out that my 401k is now frozen. My former company filed for Chapter 7. *******Stupid, Stupid,Stupid, ME***************

30 Can’t worry about becoming a millionaire, or owning a fancy car, however it  might impress that potential boss, if I just smell like a millionaire. Would cost too much a day for a a couple of squirts of C.K. or Aramis Classic or should I stick to my Jade East or Old Spice after shave.
 
31 I loved meeting so many cool people at The World Financial Group. They taught me that only need to go to school for just one day to be pre-licensed, and spend only $125.00 to have my own business. I wish I did this ten years  ago. Something else I learned, as I get older it seems that I need to repeat WFG over and over again, I find myself sometimes forgetting my Wallet, Fon, and Glasses

32 This being the first Monday for the fired workers o Calumet Photographic(US), I cannot stress the importance of starting a daily journal for your day. Four over two years I am able to reflect on the important activities I did, jobs, appointments and ideas.

33 Stay away from Time Shares and Storage Lockers, these two money pits has cost me a small fortune that I will never be able to recover my investment.

34 PROCRASTINATE the PROCRASTINATION, time goes fast, even on the first of your new journey, there is no time to look back. Just do a little bit at a time, Just do it.

35 stop playing computer games, check out Amazon prime and get a Kindle account and try to read one book a month. It’s good ammunition during a job interview.

36 Coupons, The Entertainment Book, and restaurant.com is a great way to save money when you plan to go out. Think of every dollar you can save in term of a gallon of gas. Share and trade your coupons with others who are trying to get back into job main stream.

37 Stop worrying about not being a millionaire, maybe because I am not smelling like a millionaire. Maybe I need Christian Eau Dior Sauvage or Hermes Terrs d’Hermes instead of my old “smellsters”, Jade East and Old Spice.

38 Always have a copy of your resume on me when you travel, even if you don’t get a job right away, make sure you document handling it out so you can satisfy your state’s unemployment job search for the week, restaurant, bowling alley, and grocery stores.


Got to stop now, and I will keep adding to this list, please email me your ideas at [email protected], hoping we can get at least 50 ideas and be instrumental in helping our friends in their times of need. I found out that the people who fired you are also being fired. What comes around goes around. Good night and keep the faith.


   

Mym Tuma-Reaching Out to Georgia O’Keeffe(40yrs)

    I am very pleased to have my second guest blogger, Mym Tuma. Her story reflects on how when we are students, we feel that it is very important to reach
out to our icons(heroes) that we look up to. In her case it was a matter of  being
a young innocent student who was just too creative and gifted.
   Her story reflects that we can be mentors to our mentors, however  nothing is sacred, be prepared for the unexpected, and cherished the moment.
                                          O’Keefe and Me
                                          Abstracts of Our Letter
     Preface How It All Started.

     This is the fortieth year since I met Georgia O’Keeffe, a  compelling woman, both
 in her art and her persona. She is certainly the foremost woman artist of the century, and some would say the century’s foremost American artist. That’s a remarkable  statement. Given my age at the time of twenty-four, I had an interaction
with an absolutely, almost goddess-like kind of figure, though she didn’t appear that way.
     There were almost no books in print documenting her life. There was a selective
amount of information I had on her at the time, and being excited about the things I
was doing, I knew my approach to nature’s energy was different from hers. And we both shared an interest in minimalism, although I was involved with science at the
time, she took the mystic’s approach.
      Although Georgia O’Keefe was legendary, I was not necessarily aware of that,
on a conscious level anyway. There was much curiosity about her particularly her
decision to isolate herself at that point. While that year, in 1965 I enrolled in NYU’s
graduate program to study with Irving Sandler in his modern art seminar. He commented, “O’Keefe would be interesting to talk about, why don’t you look her up,
since you’ve already met her? She’s a hermit. I never her. I’m curious  about her image as  she has fallen out of popularity in New York, after 1946-into the 50’s.”
Later in 1970 her reemergence caused quite a stir.
     These letters are to be seen as a dialogue between a younger and older artist
and approached from the view that they are not involved with the kind of scholar-
ship that an art historian is but rather as involved in a relationship that existed that had it’s own dynamic.
       You can venture with M
ym Tuma on her Georgia O’Keefffe & Me  web site,
www.mymtuma.com . Ms. Tuma just like first guest blogger, Ronald G. Wayne, that life
is a journey that we must share, and never look back. Hopefully others will judge us for
just the starting and ending points of our destination, and certainly not on the time and distance it took.
         I welcome other guest bloggers, and together we can make a difference for
others who need to start their new journey. Please email me at [email protected]
for your story.

Ronald G. Wayne

    I am very please to post my first guest blogger, Mister Ronald G. Wayne.  On the third decade of the anniversary I decided to go on a treasure hunt and reach out to one of Apple Computer’s founders, Ronald G. Wayne. Mister Wayne has been an inspiration to me. He has taught me that no matters what happens in life, you cannot beat yourself up about what you coulda, shouda, or wouda in life. In Mr. Mr. Wayne’s case, it was certainly more money I could of ever imagined. 

Here is an excerpt from Mr. Wayne’s blog that can be found in it’s entirety at www.ronaldgwayne.com.

Ronald G. Wayne–July 29, 2013-Volume II-Number 10

WHAT THE “H—” IS GOING ON AROUND HERE?

                      THE PERFECT SCAM

                               Privaitization

     For the past several decades one political party has touted the wonders of “Privatixation” under the fallacious argument that “Government can do nothing right”

Building upon the delusional and sophist argument, they’ve pressed the incredibly spurious claim that “Only private industry has the proper buisness sense to run public services efficiently.”  

    And yet, as with s many significant issues of public concerns, that public seems unable to”ask the question”. The “Ground Floor” reality issue is found in fact that any service (public or private)has a basic operating cost. If that cost is assumed by government, the taxpayer is obliged to pay “that cost” – and that cost alone. But when that “public service” is handed over to a private company, not only does the basic operating cost remain in place, but that “private enterprise” then goes on to demand  “their profit”. These enterprises, after all are not philanthropists. ‘They are in it for the money’ Moreover, since they’re ‘in it for the money’, they have every motivation to provide the least possible service, and in what ever shoddy manner that will insure that they realize the highest level of profit.

     There is this anecdote of a question that was put to Neil Armstrong , asking what his final thoughts were as he was strapped into his capsule, waiting from blastoff. He replied  …Everything in this whole machine , was built by the lowest bidder.”

      I hope you get an opportunity to visit Mr Wayne’s blog, and be able to read this blog in it’s entirety. The world of apple, has also introduced me two of Mr. Ronald G. Wayne’s books, “Adventures of An Apple Founder, and “Insolence of Office”.

      Please let me know if you you like to be my next www.howiemaui.com blogger. I feel that I am learning that a journey can be whatever you want it to be, and it does not have to be about what I should of done, or if I had a chance to be an Apple founder, but a finder of what of really going to give you fulfillment and purpose in life.





The Minimum Wage Should Be $5.00 an Hour

    Whoa, I bet you think a mere $5.00 an hour is slave labor, but after spending two years on my Howiemaui.com journey, and not receiving a pay check, I have learned that the way our country needs to revamp their solution for solving our unemployment problem is it to make it
easy for employers to put on more employees. Well I wonder if government would be, willing
to throw them a bone and let them add some of our millions of unemployed for just five bucks
an hour. Huh, how can anyone live on this slave labor wage? Well they can if our Federal Government would just match an additional five bucks an hour instead of just paying people to stay home, the  millions of the no-jobbers can finally get back to their respectful work place. I sure would like to go back to a routine and make $400.00 dollars a week or should I say a weak eighty dollars a day. You might say that this still isn’t enough to live on, but here is the kicker(touch down), ****No Taxes Will BE Taken Out(paid) by the be these much needed new employers and the millions of the UNEMPLOYED that need to put FOOD on their tables.**** Even though our state federal governments would lose a lot of their initial tax monies, I feel putting millions of people back to work would make up the difference. Right now I am open for all suggestions, and would love to make my wife happy and show her a pay check.

The Secret Life of Howie Maui.

  It’s been two years since my four decade journey in the photo retail. however after viewing a very motivating movie, “The Secret Life of Walter Mitty” I felt rejuvenated to continue my real
love journey- Photography, my real passion that has offered me so much, a sales job with Insurance, being able to be part of a great history, having the opportunity to meet  very creative artists, surrounded with best camera equipment, and being in an industry that is certainly taking part in the way we use our cell phones(pictures).  Not getting a pay check certainly has been disappointing, but in two years I have learned so much about myself, the importance of having more time to think about my new journey, the importance of social media and most of all, money is not everything. I so much wanted to be a successful insurance salesman and introduce this industry to the many out there that it is an industry where you can get pre-licensed in one or two days and have the opportunity of having your own business without spending years of schooling, and thousands of dollars to have your own business, and it  can give you an income that rivals many rich doctors and lawyers. I am not going to walk away from insurance industry, but just givegin it a rest.
   Now that I got my true  feelings out about what I been experiencing, I feel that just like Walter Mitty that I much search for the last photograph (journey) that I need to have as my cover for my own LIFE MAGAZINE.
   I would like to offer www.howiemaui.com to many of my viewerss the opportunity to show case their own posting. Please email me at [email protected] for your contributionand comments. So much of our social media try to bombard us with so many advertisements, topics, pictures,
and videos. Lets just have a simple blog that just has one topic, and give people a chance
to have a day where they can tell us about their  Howie Maui Secret Life.