How Did We Get Here, Again?

Okay, officially hit the 31 day mark – time for a systems check. Left Big 5 Corporate Job to Get a Life CHECK…then left small boutique interactive agency to Have a Life CHECK…took entrepreneurial opportunity to build a digital communications company in the South to Actually Live the Life We Dreamed MAJOR CHECK! Actually, the way and FK and I got together is extremely indicative of how incestuous and incredibly fulfilling our industry is. We both met, but did not work directly together at the small boutique interactive agency. We both left at separate intervals for different reasons. FK actually worked with our now current boss at a previous agency and I met him last year when I first started looking for a senior-level account role in the agency realm. Needless to say, it was URBAN CAMPING destiny that brought the three of us together and we couldn’t be more thankful. There is something amazingly thrilling and vibrant about getting to work with peers you highly respect to build a business, whether they are agency-side or client-side. It’s a rough business world and at some point you might as well elect to work with the people you would only take with you into battle – PERIOD. By the way, for those of you starting to follow our Adventures in Urban Camping Blog – FK is married to a lovely lady, with an adorable 2-year-old “piglet” named Caroline and is a South Carolinian-big honkin truck-drivin, burb livin all around gentleman and PM extraordinaire. I (MB) am still waiting on my Prince, have the smartest beta fish named Auggie in the world and a committed convertible-cruisin, soon to be Vespa flying Midtown loft urbanite with a passion for interactive marketing big ideas and their execution. Quite a business pair we make!

We’ve been URBAN CAMPING separately the past week and a half due to various illnesses and life happenings, but we’ll be co-UCing along with our boss next week in one of the original URBAN CAMPING meccas – New York City – as we visit the digital communications “mothership”. So stay tuned for highlights from our first real road trip :)