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I'm a student too. I'm not sure what my schedule will be like yet, but I usually take classes in the afternoon, so I can cam at night and not have to get up early. Last semester was my first semester of camming instead of having a retail job and it was so much less stressful. My grades were way better because I was actually putting school first.
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Well hopefully we can all make it work anyway! The way things are going with SM as of late, it may be better for me to work in the Campus Bookstore hahaha!
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Koy, Have you tried other sites? I haven't tried SM at all-I'm on MFC, and I have fairly consistent traffic. I guess it all may depend on when you are camming.
Has anyone tried to work the "student" vibe to their advantage on cam? I don't really know what I'm asking, but I would assume while I am slow during work that I would try to catch up on reading or HW. Guys usually ask me what I'm doing if I'm not giving my undivided attention, so I wonder if they might start tipping if I ask them for help? I was also thinking about working the sugardaddy card and asking them to shower me in praise when I get good grades, or asking them to pay for my books via amazon gift cards and then using a wall sign putting their name on the front of my book in fun colors so they know I have to think of them every time I use it. I haven't found too many "daddy figures" or men looking for financial domme, but this may work?? Feel free to tell me I'm a total nut.. because I can be! and I'm still very new to all of this, so some of my ideas are a bit off the wall. :cow: <-has nothing to do with the post, but it was too cute!
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Koy, Have you tried other sites? I haven't tried SM at all-I'm on MFC, and I have fairly consistent traffic. I guess it all may depend on when you are camming.
Has anyone tried to work the "student" vibe to their advantage on cam? I don't really know what I'm asking, but I would assume while I am slow during work that I would try to catch up on reading or HW. Guys usually ask me what I'm doing if I'm not giving my undivided attention, so I wonder if they might start tipping if I ask them for help? I was also thinking about working the sugardaddy card and asking them to shower me in praise when I get good grades, or asking them to pay for my books via amazon gift cards and then using a wall sign putting their name on the front of my book in fun colors so they know I have to think of them every time I use it. I haven't found too many "daddy figures" or men looking for financial domme, but this may work?? Feel free to tell me I'm a total nut.. because I can be! and I'm still very new to all of this, so some of my ideas are a bit off the wall. :cow: <-has nothing to do with the post, but it was too cute!
Wow! Wish I could thank it a million times! Oh and I work SM and MFC <---sometimes. That is all.
But that's a great idea! I would love to meet one of those "rape my wallet" types ;D but until then..gotta hustle! I've never tried it, but it sounds AWESOME! I don't see any reason why it couldn't work especially since it's an original -not been done a million times- idea! Go for it!!!! And yes...the little cow is friggin adorable! :D
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Im bumping this! Had a hard time finding it just now and I KNOW its relevant to lots of us. :)
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Hopefully I will start another college next year. I don't know how will I handle it, but I hope I will be able.
My timetable will look like:
Mo 8am - 6pm
Tu 8am - 4pm
We 8am - 1 pm
Thu 8am - 4 pm
Fri 8am - 1 pm
+ travelling ( 1hour there 1 hour back)
+ other optional courses
+ I will have to learn a LOT
It is 5 year long. I must find enaugh time to cam because I will have to pay for the tution.
So the next 13 months I will try to spend with building my regulars and clip store and things like that. I hope it will be all right.
We also would like to try a baby in like 2 years, so I will be very busy. :O
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Yay so glad to see that you girls are on board! I really hope we can motivate each other to do well in school and reach our goals while making a decent income from camming :) A couple of questions for you ladies:
1. Do you worry about your school administration/ other students finding out? If so, what do you do to keep this from happening?
2. Will you be living in a dorm? By yourself or with a roomate(s)? How do you plan to do this while maintaining your privacy?
3. What is your weekly $$ goal and how many hours are you going to work?
4. Are you going to include your camming income when applying for the fafsa/ financial aid?
5. Do you ever worry about the long term effects of doing this and how it will impact your future career/academic opportunities?
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I am not currently camming but just got accepted onto MFC today. I want to get some things in order before I begin. I am a student and will be taking 18hrs this Fall!! I am looking forward to camming so much!
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1. Do you worry about your school administration/ other students finding out? If so, what do you do to keep this from happening?
Yes, I do worry about this. I'm not really sure what I plan on doing to prevent this :/ It's a chance we take, and I realize that but it's something I've been struggling with lately! I'm not really sure what I'm going to do, but perhaps I will just do non-nude camming and focus on promoting myself as the gfe type, block states, and alter my appearance (although honestly, I don't think wearing a wig will do much good... lol)
2. Will you be living in a dorm? By yourself or with a roomate(s)? How do you plan to do this while maintaining your privacy?
Haven't figured this out yet :/ I will save a TON of money if I share an apartment with someone, so that would definitely be ideal! However, all of my friends are uber-conservative and so I don't know of anyone that I could room with who would accept it, and keep it a secret. I wish I knew of some other camgirls who went to my school (there's gotta be some out there!) that I could room with so we could both cam and it not be a big deal! Any ideas on how I can find one, or find a cheaper living situation where I just live by myself?
3. What is your weekly $$ goal and how many hours are you going to work?
I would be ectastic with 1k a month. I think it's definitely possible with the right marketing, being efficient with my time, and trying to maximize offline earnings. Especially if I sold content - but again, that brings up the issue of photos/videos of me surfacing the internet and people finding out. I plan on working at least 20 hours a week, but keeping a fairly strict schedule so that my regulars know exactly when to catch me online and to maximize the number of privates/group shows in the smallest amount of time possible.
4. Are you going to include your camming income when applying for the fafsa/ financial aid?
Yep! I will definitely include my earnings, but just apply as "self-employed/independent contractor"
5. Do you ever worry about the long term effects of doing this and how it will impact your future career/academic opportunities?
Yes, I do :( That's why I'm less and less sure about whether or not this is something I want to do, to be completely honest. But it has so many pros - I can work around my school schedule, and still make a very decent income!
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Hey... do you guys think it would be a good idea to make a private group for college and university camgirls in case anyone might need to find a roommate?
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1. Do you worry about your school administration/ other students finding out? If so, what do you do to keep this from happening?
Nope, not really a concern for me. I don't socialize much with the other students. I'm kind of old to still be in college (I'm 23) and I just go to class and go home. I doubt anyone knows who I am.
2. Will you be living in a dorm? By yourself or with a roomate(s)? How do you plan to do this while maintaining your privacy?
I've always had my own apartment, I've never lived in a dorm. I've been living with my boyfriend for over a year so I split rent with him. Previously I had an apartment by myself and then I lived with a close friend, but I was dancing at the time, not camming. I don't know what I'd do if I had to find a roommate now :/
3. What is your weekly $$ goal and how many hours are you going to work?
I try to make at least $350-500 a week. I generally work around 10 hours a week, just depends on how the money is. I'm trying to get in a routine this summer so it will be easier when I start classes again in the fall.
4. Are you going to include your camming income when applying for the fafsa/ financial aid?
I haven't been doing this as my main source of income long enough to have filed taxes on it, so I already did my FAFSA with my retail job income from last year. Next year I will include my camming income for FAFSA.
5. Do you ever worry about the long term effects of doing this and how it will impact your future career/academic opportunities?
Nope. I'm a web design major and I would like to do adult websites so I don't think it will affect anything for me.
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1. Do you worry about your school administration/ other students finding out? If so, what do you do to keep this from happening?
No, not really. I'm getting married in a few months and I have some cool friends who doesn't mind. I am and always was a shut in, I don't like people, so I don't care about other people's opinion. What could happen? They might not talk to me on the courses or won't invite me anywhere cause I'm a bitch. The better for me. :D
As long as I'm doing nothing illegal, (and sex-work is legal over here) I cannot be fired, so I'm fine.
I suck at make up, I cannot use wigs, getting in contacts takes me more than half hour so I cannot really disguise myself. :D I use glasses thou.
2. Will you be living in a dorm? By yourself or with a roomate(s)? How do you plan to do this while maintaining your privacy?
We will buy a bigger apartment in the autumn, I will have my own cam room and everything, so this won't be a problem. My partner knows about this camming, and he likes it, because I like it. :)
3. What is your weekly $$ goal and how many hours are you going to work?
I have no idea yet. It depends on how much I can save up this year, and not sure yet if I will have to pay for the college in the first 2 years or not. Anyways the tuition is at about 13k per year. I will have to make the tution and and extra 1000 a month and I can live like a queen. An extra 500 a month and it is still cool.
4. Are you going to include your camming income when applying for the fafsa/ financial aid?
Financial aids are really seldom here and the whole system is fucked up. Those who pay for the college do not get any financial support, only the freebies get it sometimes.
5. Do you ever worry about the long term effects of doing this and how it will impact your future career/academic opportunities?
No I only worry about money. I hope to be a vet, specialised in small animals with my own surgery next to our house. =)
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Bump! School's starting sooooon ;D
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1. Do you worry about your school administration/ other students finding out? If so, what do you do to keep this from happening?
No I don't worry so much about it, I actually have a communications class this semester where you do speeches about yourself and I will probably discuss it. I am not ashamed of it at all and if somebody doesn't like it, Thats their problem. It's legal and my body.
2. Will you be living in a dorm? By yourself or with a roomate(s)? How do you plan to do this while maintaining your privacy?
I live with my fiance and he already knows I cam.
3. What is your weekly $$ goal and how many hours are you going to work?
Not sure yet, I'm just starting out in the cam girl world so I also work at a nursing home too. I would like to make at least 1,500 a month.
4. Are you going to include your camming income when applying for the fafsa/ financial aid?
I already did all that when I wasn't camming so I wont need to until spring.
5. Do you ever worry about the long term effects of doing this and how it will impact your future career/academic opportunities?
Yes seeing as how I want to go to law school after I finish my bachelor of arts in Justice Studies but I will cross that bridge when I have to.
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1. Do you worry about your school administration/ other students finding out? If so, what do you do to keep this from happening?
I prefer if no-one finds out about me being in the adult field but I am not too concerned with it either. Before I started this field I did my pros and cons of what the risks and gains were, plus took in account my future plans so I have an acceptance of what may come from it via negative or positive but still I like to avoid any unnecessary drama and stigma from people finding out especially right now while still in the beginning of my path to my other plans. I do not take much special precautions besides blocking my state and not showing my face in Free Chat.
2. Will you be living in a dorm? By yourself or with a roomate(s)? How do you plan to do this while maintaining your privacy?
I won't be staying in a dorm anymore. I use to before for 2years but I have an apartment offsite now. Right now I have a roomie who knows what I do so it is cool. I am in the process of moving though and will be staying alone.
3. What is your weekly $$ goal and how many hours are you going to work?
My weekly money goals are at minimum $400 (to have urgent bills paid) on average $750 ( $150 atleast 5 days a week). The amount I strive to get too is $250/day. *sigh* *all from gigs online right now*
Depending on school schedule though I am seeing if I can take online courses this semester, I try to work 8-16hours/day.
4. Are you going to include your camming income when applying for the fafsa/ financial aid?
I won't do it. :D
5. Do you ever worry about the long term effects of doing this and how it will impact your future career/academic opportunities?
I have thought about it and still think about it but the career goals I am trying to pursue won't have that much of an impact on what I want to do.
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1. Do you worry about your school administration/ other students finding out? If so, what do you do to keep this from happening?
All the time. I try not to think about it since I will be graduating soon. As of now I have my state blocked. That's all I can do.
2. Will you be living in a dorm? By yourself or with a roomate(s)? How do you plan to do this while maintaining your privacy?
Living with a roomie. In the past I only cammed when no one was in the apt or be really really quiet about it. Since my roomie and I have completely different schedules it worked out.
As of now I feel like I should be open about it. Since I'm thinking about dancing to reduce my chances of people finding out. Camming is all over the internet and that means it will be there forever. I would rather dance in a dark club with strangers than risk someone recording me and posting it to a site.
3. What is your weekly $$ goal and how many hours are you going to work?
500. Not sure about the hours.
4. Are you going to include your camming income when applying for the fafsa/ financial aid?
No. I don't get much as it is because of what my parents make and since I'm under the age of 24 I have to file as a dependent which sucks because I pay for everything. :(
5. Do you ever worry about the long term effects of doing this and how it will impact your future career/academic opportunities?
All the time since I plan to work in the entertainment business. Last thing i want is for a gossip site to find a video of me masturbating online. Could be helpful publicity but then again it's just not classy. :-\
If i was in any other profession I wouldn't be worried as much.
Good luck girls this semester!!
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First off, good luck to everyone who's starting their semester, and I hope y'all have hella fun too :)
This fall is my first as a non-student (I finally finished in July) but based on my two years of camming while in school, I do have some suggestions which may work for you, with some of your custies...
With your regs who actually value who you are, who enjoy your personality, who see you as a multi-facted intelligent human being who's also hella sexy, don't be afraid to let them know how pressed for time you are. Some guys won't appreciate this approach, but for the guys who value who you are, set a very clear schedule as to when you'll be available, and for how long...
I found the biggest challenge when I was working a free chat site was time management, as you can't exactly do research or write papers during free chat between privates. Thus, you wanna make every moment on cam as fruitful as possible, and your really good regs can help you with that...
Even before I switched to indy, I did alot of 'prebookings', as in "see you here Wed night at 9pm EST" or whatever mutually convenient time we could arrive at...do that as many times a week as you can, and let the rest know that, while you want to see them, you can't sit around all night hopin they'll drop by...but for this approach to be successful they need to have a clear idea as to when you'll actually be on cam. I found having a strict schedule really paid off, literally.
As well, try to find your best days/times to work, but if you log on and you're having a dry spell, log off for a bit...get some work done, then try again. Don't waste your precious time getting cranky with losers...get some work done and try again, refreshed and feeling less panicky about how much work you have to do...
And lastly, remember to take some time for yourself. An occasional break from school work and camming, even if it's just a day or even an afternoon, will do wonders for your cash flow (you'll have more patience with your visitors) and your sanity. I still have alot of trouble with that last one, but when I do follow it, it really works:)
Again, have a wicked year all, and to kballar and any of the rest of you who are also raising kids while juggling work and school responsibilities, there aren't words to convey how much admiration I have for that, real talk:)
To all, may your grades be high and your privates long :)
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Hmm...I honestly believe that camming while in school will be much easier for me than what I'm currently doing. The thing is though I go to school online through Kaplan, but the work load is huge, I'm a Health and Wellness major. So, currently I've been working 2 part time jobs for the past 2 months for a total of 52 hours, I have 3 kids (hubby is in another state right now), and for the past month I've been learning as much as humanly possible about the online adult industry.
I've got sites set up and ready to go, I've been working MGF and tried SM for like an hour during finals week, haha. Got a business plan and marketing strategy loosely designed. I've started branding with a website. I just really need to get some more content done..ugh.
I'm losing my babysitter for the evenings and nights that I have to work so it's kind of taken an idea from floating around in my head to just do it full force in just a week or 2. All or nothing baby, but I hardly ever do anything without a plan so I've lurked and learned so much here.
I'm thinking I'll work from 3am-6am on one site, then get kids ready for school and daycare and work through out the day while they're gone M-F. Most of the time I can knock my school work out in 4-8 hours depending on the amount of reading, but I can fit it in as I go.
Good luck ladies!
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I'm a full-time student and new to camming. Finally, a job where I'm my own boss and can work late at night! ;D
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I'm a sex chat operator right now but I want to get into camming and phone sex for when I am ready to go back to school. I'm not sure if I will qualify for financial aid at all. I am trying to avoid getting loans. I don't think I qualify for them anyway and paying out of pocket for tuition would break me. I am trying to be financially independent own my own business and go to school. I'd like to go full time but I might have to settle for part time right now. This year for me is all about accomplishing goals so I wont give up on this. It would be nice if I could find a guy or 2 to pay for my school.
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I'm not a cam girl yet, but I'm going to start within the next month doing predominantly fetish/Domme shows. I'm currently a career Senior in her last 3 classes before I graduate in Dec. (Finally! I feel like I've been in school now for forever!) I currently have Tu, Th, Sa, & Su's off and I just posted a schedule for my regulars that'll be adding to my site soon.
I wish I would've found Domming and camming years ago. I'd have never have resorted to student loan, nor would I have worried about affording going to college over seas. (I never got to study abroad due to my idiot college and being a struggling college student.)
I specifically got into Domming because I always wanted to go into the lifestyle (I'm a lifestylist) and because I need some way to pay off these stupid student loans that's more substantial than what I was doing before.
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1. Do you worry about your school administration/ other students finding out? If so, what do you do to keep this from happening?
As someone who's worked in and out of the adult industry for most of my adult life, I actually ran into this scenario when I was about 20. Some people found out at my college (or so they say) that I was doing non-nude paysites and threatened to post it all over my campus. I ended up dropping out not to long after that with this being one of the reasons why. (If I knew what I know now, I would've gone to campus police and reported them for NUMEROUS things, including libel and slander, but hindsight=20/20.)
Now? I don't give a fuck. I'm about to graduate, I don't do anything illegal, and my school isn't a Christian college. If anybody wanted to go after me, they'd have to be the tax man. And I PAY my taxes.
2. Will you be living in a dorm? By yourself or with a roomate(s)? How do you plan to do this while maintaining your privacy?
I just moved out of my old apt with my crazy ex-roommate and into my new apt with my roomie who's also a Domme. She knows if she hears me yelling, or if my door's closed, that I'm sleeping or in a session. No drama there.
3. What is your weekly $$$ goal and how many hours are you going to work?
Right now since I'm just starting to seriously make $$$. I've made over $500 this past week. This is the first time this has happened, but I've been making more and more every week since I've learned where to advertise and that I'm perfect for a particular fetish. The bare minimum I want to make a month is $1k, but I'd like to make $3-5k/month in the long run through multiple income streams (tangible sales, camming, phone, RT sessions, etc).
I'm working mainly part-time, roughly 6 hrs a day, 4 days a week. Though I'm not always on for the FULL 6 hrs.
4. Are you going to include your camming income when applying for the fafsa/ financial aid?
As I just started Domming and this is my last semester, it won't figure in.
5. Do you ever worry about the long term effects of doing this and how it will impact your future career/academic opportunities?
I have already looked at it, and honestly, I started Domming because it *can* be a career. I can travel the world and make good $$$ doing something I have no personal problems with. I can take a month off if I need to, or I can go to Europe and work over there for 6 months doing a combo of online and RT sessions. Same for Asia, Austrialia, S. America, etc.
My degree is in the entertainment industry, so even if I stop Domming, I won't have to worry about it potentially effecting my ability to get work. If anything, I'll be able to still work in my field and Domme at the same time.
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School hasn't started back up again for me yet but it will in about three weeks.
1. Do you worry about your school administration/ other students finding out? If so, what do you do to keep this from happening?
Not really. At least, I'm not overly paranoid about it. I do have my state blocked. The college I will be transferring to eventually has a support/social group for sex workers and I'm very interested in participating.
2. Will you be living in a dorm? By yourself or with a roomate(s)? How do you plan to do this while maintaining your privacy?
I live alone, not in a dorm. I manage the building where I live, so my privacy concerns are more about some sort of building emergency happening while I'm in the middle of a show. (knock on wood, this hasn't happened yet.)
3. What is your weekly $$ goal and how many hours are you going to work?
I really need to sit down and figure this out.
4. Are you going to include your camming income when applying for the fafsa/ financial aid?
Next year's FAFSA will be the first time I will have camming income to include- I was under the impression that all income must be reported, in which case, yes.
5. Do you ever worry about the long term effects of doing this and how it will impact your future career/academic opportunities?
Yes and no. Since I'm aiming for a degree in social work and eventually want to be (among other things) a sex worker-friendly therapist, I think having personal experience will be very helpful. My biggest concern is that camming is the first sex work I have done that leaves a paper trail, and when I apply for licensure I wonder if it will somehow come up.
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I am bumping this thread because since school has started I have not logged on once. Am taking 7 classes which is kind of a shit load as at my school 4 is norm 5 is expected but 6 is unheard of. I want to graduate early. I am hoping there is someone on here that would be looking for some sort of cam girl buddy or email or whatever. I can link you to my SM so you know I am not a creeper lol so preferably someone from SM would be awesome. I promise to help you be more productive as well!
Totally same deal over here. I haven't logged in ONCE. I'm all go right now, and when I'm not I'm tired (like now lol). But I would love to be your buddy, pm me what your schedule is like :)
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LMAO, have been doing little to no camming this semester because it took me a month to finish my desktop build, and it's taken me almost 2 months to get my stupid camming verification done with 2-3 sites that I want to cam with. I'm almost finished with the semester now (and possibly college altogether), so I figure that I'll be "Domming the Holidays" for $$$ on cam very soon.