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Money isnt the reason I started a skateboard company
really? what was the reason?
and the reason you started another one?
and a truck company?
and a shoe company?
and then another board company?
you lie like other people breathe.
and you and i both know that you have done way more negative and dick-ish things to other pro skaters than talk some shit about them on a message board.
for reals?
when I started skating, I had no idea you could make money off of it.
i started cause it was fun and i was fascinated with the fact that you could do it by yourself whenever or however you wanted.
I did that and that alone for years, eventually my parents were fed with buying my gear, so I had to get a job in order to buy boards.
I didn't get a job because I loved money, I got a job because I had to get skateboards some how.
as time went on, I obviously figured out that it was possible to get sponsored and get stuff for free. I wanted to hook up with that so I could ditch the job and just skate because it was way more fun that flipping burgers at wendy's. I made a million vids and eventually was lucky enough to start receiving some crap in the mail.
i still didn't know much about making a living off of it, cause the memo didn't make it to my part of the woods.
at any rate, I knew I wanted to progress and california was where I needed to go, so that's where I went.
I came to california to hopefully make a life in skateboarding and I was prepared for however ghetto that life may be. I didn't expect to make any real money. I was content with being alive, so that's pretty much just food and there was barely that for a long time.
speeding up to when I was on toy pretty much running the shit, I was like I love this, I want to run my own thing some day.
it feels amazing to create stuff and see it when it comes out especially if people are feeling it. I get psyhced when we get a sample in just because of the process that goes into it and I'm psyched on it. Maybe that sounds weird, but it's fun. When I started zero i didn't expect for it to succeed, it just felt like that was the next step and I was up for the challenge. I took the same pay as when I was on toy and that's all i got for years. then I was told that it was doing well and I was gonna start making money for running it. I obviously was psyched cause I felt like I was working hard, but the truth is I wouldve been doing it regardless of if I made any money off it. I wouldve figured out some other way to keep the lights on.
...seems like because myself or the companies are successful, i'm greedy or i'm only around trying to get everyone's money, but truth is as long as I'm having fun and feeling challenged, I'm psyched, don't buy our crap if you think we suck, but don't tell me why im in it, cause you don't know.
Sometimes I drive by someone mowing a lawn or something and I envy how simple of a job that is.
I contemplate what it would be like going back to that and I see the upsides, but I see the downsides for the people that depend on me so i get up and go to work the next day.
Topic: The Slap Message Boards and the Trial of Jamie Thomas (Read 86301 times)