I've Returned For Better Or Worse

It has been a very long time since I've actually set forth to write a new blog post. Perhaps this is due to a lack of creativity but more than likely it has to do with my choice of a career path. When you decide establish your own business, you have to be ready for sacrifice. Your fun and carefree habits must cease to exist. Not permanently, but you must be ready to pour your soul into your work.

Live it. Breathe it. Become one with it. Everything else must become secondary.


Marketing has always been an unfortunate ability of mine but my interest always lied within web  & graphic design. Web design is more of a creative process in comparison to marketing, at least in my opinion. The marketing world lacks a certain substance that web design and development has. Boiled down, marketing begins with learning and understanding the human psyche but inevitably becomes something else altogether. Web design invokes my creative sensibility and let's me be more of myself. I attempt to balance the two within my work but nonetheless it is a challenge.

The one thing I decided was that I did not want my life to be consumed by marketing endeavors. If you decide to focus your career in the marketing field, you should be prepared to have no life outside of it. Your job will follow you wherever you go. That is, of course, if you don't set your boundaries beforehand. I've worked hard to achieve a balance between work and play. It's not a perfect balance but it's the best I could ask for. This is because I work for myself and work to accomplish my goals. I'm not under the thumb of some company.

So there it is folks. I've finally made time to write a blog post and hopefully my career path will allow me to write more in the future. I plan on keeping this blog relatively appropriate, although if you know me well enough, you would have chuckled right there. The focus is going to be on art and skateboarding but the occasional random post will make an appearance. I plan on establishing a new website dedicated to the local skateboarding scene as well. It's been in the works for quite some time but the end product will be well worth it. Until next time, stay thirsty my friends.

~ Mike Vaz