Going back to the USA!

Jackson here; 

In a couple of weeks I will be flying back to Michigan! I decided to head back to the USA earlier than normal to get a head start for this summer. Luckily, I already have been accepted for a job at UPS that pays $15 an hour which is great! I have lots of plans for when I get back to Michigan. I have shipped a lot of items from various places to Grand Rapids so I will come home to many packages. 

I have 3 large shipments coming from abroad that FedEx will deliver on April 12th (tomorrow). Inside are the first items that I will be selling as part of my Jax Hoffman brand in collaboration with my friend Tony. We are starting out with three basic pieces that should be great for summer wear. We have embroidered baseball caps, and two different types of tee-shirts. One is a plain white T-Shirt with the "JH" logo in black embroidered onto the top left chest. This will probably be the main item, just the essential minimalist T-Shirt Design:

This is just a mock-up for what the actual product should look like. The final T-Shirt we have which I am most excited to see is a graphic T-Shirt with a design done by somebody I connected with through instagram. This is the graphic:

This graphic will also be on a plain white tee. We will probably name it the "Roll The Dice Tee" or something like that. I told my friend that I wanted the text "roll the dice" somewhere and a pair of dice in the graphic and he did the rest. I love the wings and background stuff he added! Should look great on a shirt! When I get back to Michigan around late April, I will have all of the stuff there already so Tony and I can start photographing the items by themselves and on other people to start our content for Instagram. I wound love to open the store (jaxhoffman.com) sometime in May, preferably anytime before June 1. Then I think I will wait to see how we do and if we plan to do another summer drop or to wait until autumn to do another release. Im glad that the 3 items are all things that I will personally wear on a daily basis, thats kind of the idea! 

I have also been in talks with a local music studio which I am very excited to work with. I plan to book some studio time and record my next album(s) with them. They do great work and I actually just got an email from them recently saying that they have just moved into a brand new custom built studio with double insulation and everything, so I'm definitely excited to record and work with them. It's great because I already have over 40 songs written so I wont have to write any other songs for a while unless I want to (which I will). Best part about it is that they are located pretty close so I can just moped over to the studio whenever I have recording sessions! 

I also plan to purchase a new Moped this summer! My previous moped was a TaoTao and cost around $900 brand new. It was the cheapest one that I could find so I just bought it. I did some research and found that the Bintelli mopeds are higher quality than the TaoTaos. The TaoTao are the cheapest moped you can get. They are made in china, and the Bintelli mopeds are also made in china however they are produced in factories with better working conditions than others and they also come with better stock parts than the Tao Tao does. It costs about $600 more but its higher quality. Here is a picture of the Bintelli Flash:

I have had problems with my TaoTao with its acceleration, its delayed by a few seconds and it makes speeding up after a red light especially on a hill difficult. After I get a new Moped Ill drive it to my UPS Job which should be every day 12-4 PM which are great hours, and also to the music studio and anywhere else basically. 

So those are all of my plans for when I get back to the USA. This summer should be pretty fun and I hope to save a lot of the money that I make from my UPS job. My friend Tony who works currently at UPS says its pretty labour intensive so it can basically double as my daily workout, combined with my running every other day. I hope over the summer to increase my average run to at least 30 minutes maybe even longer. I have to get a Covid test before I fly so I have one booked a couple days before I fly out. Summer 2021 should be dope.

-Jackson