Tanja’s autobio

Hi! My name is Tanja Prlincevic and I am the owner of Made By Humans Designs.

The reason why there are so many consonants in my last name is that I’m originally from Serbia, a part of former Yugoslavia. It wasn’t exactly the most peaceful region on the planet when I was in my teens so after finishing my degree in Chemical Engineering at the University of Belgrade, I decided to move to Canada.

My big brother was already living in Vancouver, BC and, through him, I quickly found a job at a giftware company. I worked in sales as well as purchasing and both involved a heck of a lot of travel. I was away for months at a time, flying to countries all over the globe, from Japan and China to Germany and France, but most often to big cities in the US. I really loved getting a taste of all those different regional and national cultures.

I think it made me even more cosmopolitan than I already was. I’ve always found it impossible to identify myself completely with a particular country or cultural environment. Even while growing up in Yugoslavia, my family moved so frequently from one part of the country to another, and from one city to the next, that I’ve never had time to strike roots in any of the places we lived.

But don’t get me wrong, I’m not complaining! On the contrary, I actually like this feeling of not totally belonging or fitting in anywhere in particular. It’s very freeing.

I’m a curious person. I love learning new things and figuring stuff out. A few years ago, for instance, I did my MBA at one of the universities here in town. I also taught myself how to make nice product pictures and tweak them in Photoshop. My current project is trying to find out everything there is to know about digital marketing.

I’m a single mom with an awesome, 18 y.o. son. He’s going to study finance at the University of British Columbia here in Vancouver in the fall of 2020. I’m so happy he’s not leaving town!

Hmm … what else should I reveal about myself? – Let’s see. How about this: my favorite writers are Camus and Kundera. I have a healthy lifestyle, don’t eat meat and hardly drink. Three glasses of wine and this lady’s speech begins to slur. I’m very conscious about what foods I put on the inside and what beauty products I put on outside of my body. No doubt my background in chemistry has everything to do with it, but I just have to know the chemical formula of every little ingredient of every little thing that I eat or slap on my skin. I keep in shape – well, let’s just say, reasonably good shape –  by daily forcing myself to perform a set of 5 ancient Tibetan stretches called – big surprise  – “The Five Tibetans”.

I love dogs but sadly don’t have one.

I also love Porsches but sadly don’t have one either. They should make an electric one, though.

So that’s me in a nutshell, folks. Thanks for reading all the way to end.