What You Don't See
Author: Brent Stallo	Brent Stallo | Wednesday, 28 January 2009 13:00

Tax season sucks, especially when you don’t keep up with your receipts throughout the year. Despite popular belief, our work lives consist of much more than just traveling the country attending races, searching out photo shoots and riding around in helicopters. We are actually young entrepreneurs in the early stages of what we believe will be a very successful company, and with that responsibility comes, well, responsibility.

 

At Vurb there are the things we love – i.e. travel, ride, conduct photo shoots, write, edit video, design – and there are the things we despise – i.e. tax season, paper work, data entry and budgeting. As with any job, there is constant balance between love and hate that must be maintained in order to ensure ourselves (and our readers) that we will still be conducting business well into the future.

 

The only cool thing we’ve discovered about filing receipts is that it offers us a chance to take a trip down memory lane. As Wes and I sifted through receipts following our trip to Houston for the opening round of the East Coast Supercross Series, memories of the past 10 months spurred stories of some of the best times of our lives. It’s amazing the stories that result from viewing a receipt from a Mexican restaurant in Texas, a coffee receipt from a Starbucks in California or a grocery store receipt from a Wal-Mart in Tennessee.

 

What started out as a dreaded work session actually turned into a really cool trip down memory lane. It was almost like going through an old photo album, only this time there were no photos.

 

I think I’ll do a better job of keeping up with receipts in 2009 but, then again, that might take all the fun out of it.