Deep Sea Dreams Merchant Marine Blog

Just like that little angel and the little devil on the Bugs Bunny’s shoulders, both telling him what he should do, we all have inner voices advising us in every endeavor and action and in particular, repair evolutions.  Be it working on a piece of equipment shipboard, on your car, an appliance,  those voices won’t be muted. Mark Twain said, “Good judgement is the result of experience and experience is the result of poor judgement”. Although I am a realist, I am also a pessimist when approaching problems. I remember some of my lessons (from my training) and have applied...

I write this blog thinking of the men and women who are still in the workforce going to sea, yet my comments can be applied to daily living, travelling and even working around the home or on your car. If you ever had a free fall down a ladder, using a trailing hand technique, might prevent you from suffering serious injuries. Why? Because if you begin to  fall your hand will naturally tend to grip the ladder in response. While working on exhaust gas projects with a major cruise line I had the chance to witness incredibly smart people involved in...

  Being proud and showing pride. My work ethic started very early in life, I mean, really early, like 3rd  grade selling items from some magazine (I honestly forget what it was, but it dealt with Christmas cards in August, lol) and digging clams, then on to lawns ( a lot of accounts, even had to hire other kids) to earn money for a car, and of course grocery stores and finally on ships. Learned a lot of things, through these times, worked with many many people from all over. Most of my career was as a "working first" assistant...

For years, I had double rows of calluses on the palms of my hands, I was a working First and almost nothing was too hot or too hard to do. Now, I am at my computer, probably more than 8 hours per day, working on Deep Sea Dreams and it is indeed, hard to do! Thinking about, exploring and creating designs that appeal to the maritime community is quite challenging. This is especially true because most of my life I was in the maritime field (35 years) and having never taken any course, be it marketing or graphic design, things tend to move slow, including my designs....

Wow The year is closing in once again, dam does time fly. Been so busy in the many aspects of developing a viable online business, I haven't had the time for much else. If your thinking about an online store, first pro tip, 99% of all the videos you watch on how to build a business, are bullshit! This has been an incredible learning experience. First, grasping and understanding marketing and  the concepts of social media, from FB, to Instagram, Twitter, Google and more, how they relate, how to market on those sites and all the necessary things you need to...