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Topic	Have you ever quit a project / business that you helped start?
Joker98 01/03/21 4:01:02 PM #14:	Wii_Shaker posted... Growing up I had always been a little skate rat. Fresh out of high school I gained a skateboard sponsorship. It was a small company started by an artist friend of mine. We toured on the West coast and I performed in a few demos while on tour. I still have photos of my shoot at Washington St. Bridge in San Diego. It was great and I got to meet tons of legendary skaters such as Butch Sterbins and Stu Graham. A few years go by and the company isn't doing so hot, though we sold out of our back stock of boards and hoodies, the company isn't turning a profit. My artist friend calls me on the phone and tells me that he is going to be putting the skateboard company down for good. I was kind of broken up about it but I understood. I really don't know how I expected things to go but I at least got to live my dream of being a professional skater. I even had my own pro deck. Though my career in skateboarding was not yet over. After coming back from another West Coast tour, I meet another talented skateboarder with ambition. Together we form a small skate crew and begin production on what would become a heavily-involved skateboard video. The first year of shooting I quit my job and spend my life savings on a warehouse where we built a full-sized 8ft vertical skateboard ramp. We continue to accumulate footage for what we thought would be the skate video to end all skate videos. Years go by and the production of the video has become very one-sided. I feel as though I am doing most of the work as far as editing, filming as well as financing this massive project. On top of this, relations between myself and the other skater are starting to sour. I won't get into details but towards the end of production, my partner decides to leave the state completely unannounced, forcing me to roll out our project on the heels of a failed Kickstarter. The plan was to put the video into production and create a DVD product that we would then sell online and at skateshops. What ended up happening was I was left with my dick in my hand and the last 5 years of my life squandered on a project that flopped right out the gates. To save face, I uploaded the project to YouTube. At the very least I could share the fruits of my labor with the world. aww man Im sorry to hear that :/ --- ~~Every day I'm husseling and busseling~~ <cite>Joker98 posted [p:949061125] in Have you e... [t:79215534]...</cite> <quote>Wii_Shaker posted... </cite> <quote>Growing up I had always been a little skate rat. Fresh out of high school I gained a skateboard sponsorship. It was a small company started by an artist friend of mine. We toured on the West coast and I performed in a few demos while on tour. I still have photos of my shoot at Washington St. Bridge in San Diego. It was great and I got to meet tons of legendary skaters such as Butch Sterbins and Stu Graham. A few years go by and the company isn't doing so hot, though we sold out of our back stock of boards and hoodies, the company isn't turning a profit. My artist friend calls me on the phone and tells me that he is going to be putting the skateboard company down for good. I was kind of broken up about it but I understood. I really don't know how I expected things to go but I at least got to live my dream of being a professional skater. I even had my own pro deck. Though my career in skateboarding was not yet over. After coming back from another West Coast tour, I meet another talented skateboarder with ambition. Together we form a small skate crew and begin production on what would become a heavily-involved skateboard video. The first year of shooting I quit my job and spend my life savings on a warehouse where we built a full-sized 8ft vertical skateboard ramp. We continue to accumulate footage for what we thought would be the skate video to end all skate videos. Years go by and the production of the video has become very one-sided. I feel as though I am doing most of the work as far as editing, filming as well as financing this massive project. On top of this, relations between myself and the other skater are starting to sour. I won't get into details but towards the end of production, my partner decides to leave the state completely unannounced, forcing me to roll out our project on the heels of a failed Kickstarter. The plan was to put the video into production and create a DVD product that we would then sell online and at skateshops. What ended up happening was I was left with my dick in my hand and the last 5 years of my life squandered on a project that flopped right out the gates. To save face, I uploaded the project to YouTube. At the very least I could share the fruits of my labor with the world.</quote> aww man Im sorry to hear that :/ --- ~~Every day I'm husseling and busseling~~</quote> ... Copied to Clipboard!
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