Tom has been a real estate agent in the Chandler, Arizona area for 13 years. Before that Tom taught English as a Foreign Language in Taipei, Taiwan for 11 years, where he and his wife owned their own private English school. Prior to that Tom earned a BA degree in economics from UNLV. Prior to that Tom served in the US Army for 5 years as an airborne infantry soldier at the 2/75th Ranger Battalion at Fort Lewis Washington and later as a helicopter pilot in South Korea and Fort Bragg North Carolina.