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I think what I've seen other women suggest is to tape as much content as possible, and to watermark it and slowly make up your own content site. Because even when you "retire" or take a break, hopefully you can still make money from that even though you're not in front of camera.
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i've been doing it for a little over a year. i do some (self-employed) non-adult work, too, though, partly paid and partly volunteer. but i'm working on trying to get more income from camming. i'm not sure i'd want to do this full-time forever (maybe 5-10 years at most), but i could see myself doing it part time or for extra cash for a long time even if my non-adult work takes off or i find a good job working for someone else. i wouldn't want to stop because of worrying about how i will look in ten years or anything, just because i started camming because i really need the money and regular jobs are not accessible for me right now (because of my disability and health). but it's not necessarily my first choice. the pros and cons are pretty evenly split for me right now.
i do think it's possible to cam into old age - i mean, there is definitely a market for mature women, milfs, and grandmas. that's one of the things i love about camming versus other areas of the sex industry - you don't really have to fit a certain physical type to make money. i mean, certain girls might make more money because of how they look, but there is some type of money to be made even if you aren't conventionally hot or young. i think - depending on what the industry looks like in a decade or two - i could keep camming that long if my heart was really in it. and maybe in five years things will be different and i might even want to stick with it...that's always a possibility. and there are avenues like content sales and affiliate marketing so we can still make money and not spend as much time on live cam if that's what we want.
also you might consider searching for related topics - there have been a few other similar threads about long term goals, how long you plan to cam, etc. - i'm just way too exhausted to look them up right now.
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I did try the search function but I seem to be a bit inept with that thing lol
I do want to stay in the adult industry. I actually want to get into straight up porn, but thats another issue.
I guess I'm just worrying about the instability of it all, and so I'm wondering if anyone has actually been able to sustain themselves on camming for a longer period of time. I also wonder if there will still even be a camming industry in the next several years..Everyone seems so negative on the future of the camgirl.
It'd just be nice to hear some "success" stories, because if there aren't any I really need to start getting some long term career plans going..
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I'm not one, but I'm sure there are countless success stories from long-term camgirls! It's been said, and it's true: camming provides a much longer shelf life compared to other adult oriented careers due to the fact that you have such a variety of audience. I am sure there are women out there who are mature but sexy and make a respectable income.
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there are some amazing girls who've been camming for 7+ years on sw, like camwhore, minniesoporno, cammingsince97, etc. hopefully they'll come share their wisdom! :)
i do worry about what the camming industry will look like in 5 or 10 years, but i think it's hard to make those kinds of predictions since it's only been around for 10-15 years to begin with, you know? but i hope even if it changes there will still be a viable industry for amateur stuff, whether that's camming, content sales, or whatever.
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Grandma can cam! Go look at the old ass ladies on SM. lmao I can't wait until I am all old and my tits sag to my knees (I have 38gg natural tits my god imagine how bad that will be when gravity takes it place...) I can fuck myself with my cane!
Okay...okay...I'm done being a smart ass. I hope camming sticks around for awhile.
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I wanna do this for a long time. Possibly another 30 years.
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EvilChick1989
Grandma can cam! Go look at the old ass ladies on SM. lmao I can't wait until I am all old and my tits sag to my knees (I have 38gg natural tits my god imagine how bad that will be when gravity takes it place...) I can fuck myself with my cane!
Okay...okay...I'm done being a smart ass. I hope camming sticks around for awhile.
rolling on the floor!
i actually use a cane for walking but i'm really young so i'm not sure i could get away with doing cane shows on cam...plus i'd need a cane just for camming (those things can get pretty unsanitary). but this gave me such hilarious mental images! :D
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lmao @ the cane thing.
But yay okay, feeling more hopeful now. If anything leads me away from camming, it's that I want to be even deeper in the adult industry.
I want to be a porn star, no joke. Actually should my leg hurry up and get taken care of I may be doing my first g/g shoot mid October8)
Screw you, College. I'm gonna be naked for a living.
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rolling on the floor!
i actually use a cane for walking now but i'm 23 so i'm not sure i could get away with doing cane shows on cam...plus i'd need a cane just for camming (those things can get pretty unsanitary). but this gave me such hilarious mental images! :D
Well, you know how MFC and other sites state you can't put a baseball bat or anything odd inside both holes...It never really said anything about Canes. LMAO my mom has a cane and always threatens to stick them up peoples asses when they piss her off.
LMAO just imagine how it would be if your hearing is going and by then most guys have figured out you can talk to the chick on cam if you have mic. She is like WHAT I CANT HEAR YOU WHAT SONNY??? WHAT.
Fuck this I think for Halloween I am going to be a senile old lady on cam. I can borrow my moms sitting walker and every five minutes ask customers is this Country Kitchen (South Park FTW) I will be the classiest looking grandma with my china hutch of glass dildos in the background. Makes a good conversational piece don't ya know?
Okay okay sorry thread jack over. I'm done I swear lmao.
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Not per shift, but in your lifetime.
Just wondering, because it occurred to me tonight "How long can I keep doing this?" The only thing I do is cam, I have no desire to quit anytime soon, i'm infact embarking on quite a few projects but I'm terrified of the day coming when I have to go back to a "vanilla" job!
So for those of you that cam exclusively, how long have you been doing it? How long do you plan to keep it going?
I'm only 20, but I'm looking for an idea of how long camming can last me..Ideally the answer is "forever":P
My ultimate goal is to pad my savings for the future and then get out. I enjoy camming though, so I will probably be in my 60's logging in at times if it still exists LOL. Although I currently depend on it to pay my bills for a while, I would never set a goal to depend on it financially for life. Invest your money wisely. I wish I had found this opportunity at age 20. Knowing what I know now, combined with that age, I would be set.
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I'm 47 and have only been camming for 3 years. At first it was supposed to be a way to earn a little extra, however, I soon discovered how lucrative it is and now camming is my full time job/career and I seriously could not find a 'real' job that would pay me as much and be as flexible, so ultimately I am stuck in a trap, all be it a very nice trap thank you very much ;). So I suppose I'm staying untill I win the lottery or equivalant;D.
As far as camming in general goes and how long it can last. Well in my opinion as long as baby boys and girls are being born there will allways be a demand for porn of one kind or another and as long as the inernet/www is around there will be acces to whatever is wanted. Of course technology will progress and the way it's delivered will change but I don't see it dissapearing any time soon. Lets not forget that the oldest proffession in the world is prostitution and like it or not aren't we just virtual prostitutes anyway? Please don't be offended by that last comment, it's just how I see it and I'm not ashamed to call myself what I am 'A Cam Whore' ;)
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I'm 29, and have been camming on and off for 10 years now. I could quite happily continue indefinitely, as long as there are clients still wiling to pay.
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At 31 I am worrying about this too. Luckily I look about 10 years younger than my age and hopefully that will always be so. I love the money it's possible to make from camming and DREAD ever having to do a shitty, horrible job for crappy pay ever again!!! I don't really want to be doing this when i don't feel young and sexy any more though. It's hard enough now battling with cam burnout lol. I think the idea of building up content is the way to go and thank you so much for the suggestion :D There are quite a few girls on AW who have been at it 7+ years and seem to go from strength to strength so that gives me hope.
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Brilynne
Not per shift, but in your lifetime.
Just wondering, because it occurred to me tonight "How long can I keep doing this?" The only thing I do is cam, I have no desire to quit anytime soon, i'm infact embarking on quite a few projects but I'm terrified of the day coming when I have to go back to a "vanilla" job!
So for those of you that cam exclusively, how long have you been doing it? How long do you plan to keep it going?
I'm only 20, but I'm looking for an idea of how long camming can last me..Ideally the answer is "forever":P
I'm in my 40's. It's not my first choice of, "employment" but in my current situation I have no other alternatives.
There's a niche for everyone. Mine seems to be MILF.
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MissKatie
At 31 I am worrying about this too. Luckily I look about 10 years younger than my age and hopefully that will always be so. I love the money it's possible to make from camming and DREAD ever having to do a shitty, horrible job for crappy pay ever again!!! I don't really want to be doing this when i don't feel young and sexy any more though. It's hard enough now battling with cam burnout lol. I think the idea of building up content is the way to go and thank you so much for the suggestion :D There are quite a few girls on AW who have been at it 7+ years and seem to go from strength to strength so that gives me hope.
That changes fast. Like you, I have always appeared to be very young i.e. when I was 31 I looked like I was 12 and was still getting carded for beer, wine and cigarettes. Suddenly at 40 age appeared out of nowhere. Granted my 40th was surrounded by a string of personal tragedy which I'm sure helped speed up the process but 40 seems to be that magic number.
I still feel young, I still feel sexy but seeing my new laugh lines and crows feet on my feedback cam definitely makes me understand how important it is to be smart with my finances this time around.
Best advice I could give a camgirl -- (equally as important as protecting your mind) is to be smart with your money because what may be here today may not be here tomorrow. Had I invested back then I would not have to be back here now.
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Lusty Laken
My ultimate goal is to pad my savings for the future and then get out. I enjoy camming though, so I will probably be in my 60's logging in at times if it still exists LOL. Although I currently depend on it to pay my bills for a while, I would never set a goal to depend on it financially for life. Invest your money wisely. I wish I had found this opportunity at age 20. Knowing what I know now, combined with that age, I would be set.
I think this is the best advice any camgirl could listen to. I too wish i'd found camming earlier in life and made the most of it. I'm going to try to do the best i can in the next 10 years to make a shit load of cash for my future!
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I think this is the best advice any camgirl could listen to. I too wish i'd found camming earlier in life and made the most of it. I'm going to try to do the best i can in the next 10 years to make a shit load of cash for my future!
Yup! I didn't start investing until later in life, of course, I lost it all between 2008 and 2009 with the fall of the economy but most of that is my own fault for not taking my advisers calls when he wanted to move my money.
But an emphatic YES!! Don't just leave it lying around, find an financial adviser and invest 25K of your earnings into your future!!
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You know what gets me down though? i look at how much i can possibly earn, and even if i manage to save 100k, that will only get me through 5 years comfortably, not exactly a good retirement pension, and then of course there's taxes. I do not have any credit so can't buy/ invest in property, and have no clue about investing in anything else... i mean, wtf?? I need to be able to earn like this forever!!
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LOL I havent been camming 7 years...lol Just about 3 years.
Im only 25...lol
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You know what gets me down though? i look at how much i can possibly earn, and even if i manage to save 100k, that will only get me through 5 years comfortably, not exactly a good retirement pension, and then of course there's taxes. I do not have any credit so can't buy/ invest in property, and have no clue about investing in anything else... i mean, wtf?? I need to be able to earn like this forever!!
That's why you need to get in touch with an adviser. There's so many options. I started with 25K and he kept moving it. I had enough to buy a condo by December 2007. Unfortunately after all of the smart things that were done with it I still lost but with the knowledge that I was 50% of the reason.
Do your homework and find a good adviser but more important check and double check your contractual agreement before you hand everything over because clearly he was 50% of the reason I lost. He knew what I was dealing with at the time, saw the market falling and should have just gone ahead and moved it. Unfortunately they can't move money without authorization but I still fell like given the circumstances he should have done it anyway.
..and FYI at 25 years of age you don't even need 25K to start. You are still young enough to start with something as small as an IRA.
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Well I have been doing this on and off for 4 years, except two of those years I wasn't really cammming at all because of my ex, because he didn't agree with it. Now I am back on it, I would love to do this for as long as I can, I don't want to cap it. I am desperately wanting to do a makeover get a new hair color, make up and wardrobe, I am literally wearing the same thing I wore two years ago on cam, and my regulars remember all of my outfits. Ugh.
I am still in my 20's I say as long as I look good! :P
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Lusty Laken
My ultimate goal is to pad my savings for the future and then get out. I enjoy camming though, so I will probably be in my 60's logging in at times if it still exists LOL. Although I currently depend on it to pay my bills for a while, I would never set a goal to depend on it financially for life. Invest your money wisely. I wish I had found this opportunity at age 20. Knowing what I know now, combined with that age, I would be set.
I, too, wish that I would have figured this out when I was 18. I am 30 now but I still think I have a long time to do this. :)
However, I have goals to start other businesses, too. I would just hate it if in 10 years I happened to start burning out and I *had* to get on cam. That would suck!
But you young girls (haha I feel so old)---you have the world by the balls with this opportunity. Be smart and put a little away every month. Doesn't have to be much...it adds up quick if you are smart and diligent about it. ;)
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I've been camming for about a year and a half now. I enjoy it a lot but I only want to treat it as a means to an end. I plan on going back to school within the next year or two to become an RN. Of course, that will be a long process so I'll be camming to support myself until I'm done.
I don't want to cam forever but I'll most likely be involved with it to some extent for the next 5+ years.
I do worry about the future of camming, honestly. I wonder where the webcam industry is gonna go. It's fairly easy to make money right now, but from what I understand, money was overall MUCH better five years ago. Will the money continue to decline? Is it going to be hugely oversaturated to the point where it's hardly worth it anymore? Are the big webcam sites going to change the way in which the models earn money and get paid? etc. etc.
Webcam modeling is a very individualistic job, but it DOES rely on a lot of external factors that are mostly beyond our control. That's why I'd be hesitant to rely on it as my lifelong career. Will camming as we know it today even exist in 30 years?