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I cam every day but not always the same site - adds a bit of variety. Also, some days I literally go on for half an hour or an hour, so it probably doesn't count :) Can't remember the last time I worked more than 4 hours! I actually like doing it everyday though - let's me form decent relationships and have a laugh with my regs :)
I'm about to start camming everyday on two different sites to keep things interesting. I don't foresee any problems. I've been taking the weekends off, but I found myself bored and wanting to cam this weekend! Maybe I'm greedy, but I love making money! If you can do it and still enjoy it, I don't see why you shouldn't, especially if it helps you stay "in the groove." But, if camming everyday becomes a chore, maybe taking a few days off every week would be beneficial in the long run. I guess it depends on the person. :)
It's a job. I work at least 6 days a week unless I'm sick.
I don't get the greed comment. Doesn't your friend have a job? Most people have to work at least 5 or 6 days a week. Why would camming be any different?
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Ive been camming almost every day for the past 10 years.
I dont consider that I have denied myself the simple pleasures of life, b/cause I work.
I do take maybe 1 month/year vacation and I take maybe 1 day/week off, but it does not have to be a weekend day.
If you consider this a night shift work, then it all makes sense. Plenty of people do night shifts.
Or work lets say 4pm-11pm..
You have to compromise somewhere.
U cant have all the time u want and make good $. its not possible.
All successful business people work from 6 am to late evening. They just do.
That is why they can afford to buy luxury things and have a good life.
You dont have to say "No" to all social activities or time with the loved one(ones), but you have to have a job first so u can have that nice time with them.
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Your SO needs to be understanding and supportive as well.
Would it be better for you to work for $8/hour at a store ?
Whatever your common sense tells you... thats what you should do.
I did it for the first time last week, sun to sat. I didn't start lagging until thursday. It made me realize I don't have to work full shifts everyday. I just need to work mostly on the good days and milk those until I couldn't anymore, and the other days, I will go on for a couple of hours, so I don't feel pressure to make any goal.
I have been there!!! I struggled with this for a long long long long time. The one thing that I learned that is important with this job is Time Management.
Upon my first year of camming, I wanted everyone to stay away. I would get PISSED if my man knocked on my door... or if he wanted to go somewhere on a Saturday. I was thinking "damit you are interfering with my $$$ back off!!!" I turned down invites to go out, and when I had a day off I felt guilty as hell! I would think "I could be at home working, and padding my savings!"
I quickly learned though, if I am needed in other aspects of my life, or I am in a bad mood... I will not make money.
It's easy to become obsessed with camming. But the best thing to do is to sit down and create a calendar for yourself. REALISTICLY!!
I tried making a calendar once where I was marking off 9-12 hours a day for camming. & trying to pencil in 3-4 hours a day on my off days.
Let me say: THIS DOES NOT WORK!!! You will exhaust yourself, You will be unhappy and you will become even more obsessed and go off in anyone who interrupts your path. You will destroy your entire life because of camming. Not good.
The best way to go about this is to create a schedule that reflects every aspect of your life. BALANCE things. MONEY is not everything. Yes, working 24/7 and padding your account will be great, but who will be there with you in the end? What will you experience in life during that time?
Set a realistic money goal, and a weekly schedule with your work time. Comfortable hours, allowing yourself time to get ready. (I set aside an hour for cam prep, although it may not take me that long).
Set aside time for your house work/organizing... I spend 1 hour a day doing house chores. I set a timer and "power clean".. a different set of chores for every day of the week (Sun-Wed). You would be amazed at how in place your house will stay just by that 1 hour a day :) It makes you more relaxed for work too :)
Mandantory 2-3 hours with family or your significant other. I combine this with cooking dinner.. or going out for dinner.
Work around that. I like to do a "marathon" once or twice a month when everyone is gone for the weekend. That's where the extra money rolls in. That makes me excited! But what makes me even more excited is that I have a balance with family and work.
I work different sites and balance them out as well. It all adds up to about 5-6-7 hours a day/ 5 days a week and that's it. IMO, I make more in 5 hours than most women around me make in a week, so I live it up and be happy where life really matters :)
I am a workaholic. I am just wired that way. No matter what I am doing to earn money- it comes out of me. I love to work (make money)---it is a great high for me.
I have been camming a lot lately since it is now my only source of income. I am sure I will cam even more in the future.
I like your idea of setting a timer to clean everyday. I was just looking at my kitchen and thinking this is absolutely unacceptable (I went on a huge camming bender this weekend). :-\
i Started a new scedule where i cam from mon-friday 7am-11pm and make clips for an hour or two a day!! I really helps to keep consistant hours
I've had 'greed' comment said to me before. All i'm saying is excuse me for having an aim in life just cos you don't. I have often worried that I may not reach my target tomorrow and so if i am having an extra good day and hit my target I like to keep going just in case. I want nice things. Need to keep a roof over my head, food in my belly, clothes on me, keep the electric going. The list is endless but you get my drift. Sadly in this life they are haters who don't like to see you get on especially when you are doing better than them.
That's just retarded. Being motivated enough to work more to earn a better living for yourself isn't a character flaw. It might cause stress if you work too much, but otherwise, I fail to see the problem with it. Everyone has their own issues with money - some people think it's evil and that wanting it is evil. Whatever. I like money because it buys me the things I need and want. It is just the thing we use to convert our work into what we need and want to live.
If you can work everyday and maintain a balanced life, then by all means, go for it. I personally need time away.
I cam like 8 days in a row and take two days off.
I always take Saturday nights off and sometimes Friday nights too. It depends on whether I reached my weekly goal by Friday.
Even if I could, I don't think I would. My body and my brain need a break. I do like to try to be on at least every other day.
I actually have did cam everyday before. When I say everyday I mean EVERYDAY! lol
I worked 7days/week and was working 8-16hours/day. I did that for like a whole month straight. I was ONLY doing cam at the time and I did see my income with cam increase of course because of it. It does make you more tired of doing it though when you do it that way I admit but it is not impossible just difficult. lol
Like with anything in life moderation is always best. But there are times when you just have to go hard , work a little bit more, do a little extra to get something more rewarding out of it, I think.
Right now I am not camming everyday but I have other gigs that occupy my time too.
I do want to treat cam like any other job that you have in life, determine what I need to do to survive or live off of and set my days so I can accomplish my money goals to take care of my bills while still making some money for extra things. Of course that is just the bare minimum. I prefer to push myself to make more than just that but at-least take care of my urgent things first and room to wiggle if necessary. I take days off according to either profitable days and when I feel I need a break to avoid exhaustion or burn-out.
But for me even when I do cam everyday, I have to fit cam around my other gigs too so it helps to balance me out a bit and keeps variety which helps me enjoy it a little better, though not always.HA!
But I think if you have specific goals you are trying to achieve and want to go beyond mediocre results, it is okay to be an hard worker and push yourself to work your ass off for what you want. I guess some will say "greed" in a sense but I see it as being motivated, a hard worker, driven,etc......Only the person doing it would know truly if it is greed or not though some can see and speculate...but hey. I do not see the difference between working 16hours at an outside the home job versus inside an work from home job either.
I think it is only a problem when it becomes a problem..lol So if you are like look I have to get this done right now I can not be bothered for such and such time, that is understandable. We have to sacrifice for things we want. I think you will know when it is getting unhealthy as it can be sometimes too. You will either know or someone who is really close to you will know and let you know hopefully. In psychology, I believe those are like extreme cases though.
But I think the best thing is working it so that you can get breaks in according to what is healthy for you. So if you can only work 3-5 days and break or 16days and break which ever is healthy for you since everyone is different. I would also say not to push off social relationships to long as we as human being do need that since of belonging and socializing to some extent.
I haven't been able to work everyday for the last couple of weeks because my sister has been staying with me but before she got here, I did cam everyday. And when she leaves in a few days, I plan to start back camming at least 6 days a week. I still have my bartending job and I have a mandatory double shift one day per week. So I can't cam that day but I will work every other day.
I don't think it's greed. I just think it's preparing for the future. I've been broke before like really really broke and there was literally nothing I could do to get any money but ask my parents. So now that I have the power to make it pretty much as freely as I want then I have to take advantage of it. I refuse to stress over money ever again. Sorry that was just a really bad period of my life that I don't ever want to relive.
But at the same time, we're not all built the same. So if working all the time stresses you out or makes you feel greedy then you shouldn't do it. At the end of the day, everyone has to do what's best for them.
I made it a point to cam:
- everyday when i have the place to myself even if its a few hours
- Evenings and the weekends especially
- last day of the month, pay day for most of the guys i cam for
i used to...but now i find it easier to just give myself a money goal to reach. so sometimes i will cam everyday till i reach the goal and then take the rest of the pp off. or take off when i feel like it and just make sure i have enough time to reach the goal.
I have worked pretty much everyday for a month, like I MIGHT take 1 day off in a week, if that. I did that 1 month and never again. I made more money than usual that month, but my HOURLY average went way down because I was online so many hours. I'd rather work a bit less and have a better hourly average. Besides I just need some time away.
I find that when i take a day off, i dread going back on. I'm really lazy!::)
i haven't even been on cam for weeks aside from the occasional log on for an hour here and there :( but i'm broke and so after my period ends this week, I am going back to working every single day. It's the only way i can keep my motivation flowing!
I used to to, but now that I'm back in school I take thursdays off. I have class from 9-5:30 and then a club meeting until 7. Don't think I'd be in the mood to cam after all that. I always make the most when I work everyday though, I get into a groove
I have been and will continue to, or at least 5-6 days per week. I need to get in the groove and stay in the groove. If its been for an hour, I'll try again later. If its still bad, I'll log off. Some girls like to stay because you never know when it will pick up, but I don't seem to have the patience.