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Anyone ever tried working loooong shifts 2-3 days per week ...
Then taking the rest of the week off? I'm thinking about trying two 12 hour shifts 2 days per week (then maybe one 4 hour shift somewhere in the middle) ... Then either taking the rest of the week off (or working extra if I feel like it). It's probably easier said than done but idk, it sounds like a good idea in theory ... Have any of you done anything like this? Just 2-3 days of really long shifts and taking off the rest of the week?
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I might try a 12 hour shift tonight ... I'll update whether or not I want to kill myself or not by the end of my shift, lol.
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There was one club where I worked where the shifts were really long (girls had to stay from open to close) and money was decent at the time. It was common for girls (including myself) to make all their money for a couple of those long shifts and take the rest of the week off.
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I think hottie does this. She does a camathon for the first few days of the pay period, then takes the rest of the week off. Or at least that's what I've gathered from her posts.
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Oops, just realized this was in camming connection. Sorry! Thought it was club related.
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I thought about it before but I haven't actually tried it. Let us know how it goes, if you don't mind.
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I've often wanted to do this also. I just did 8 straight hrs. today, and only had 2 short privates, so the money would have to be consistant if I did the 2 long day thing. The way camming has been lately, I wouldn't do it.
If You do, and it works out, please let us know. The encouragement would be good.
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I can't do long shifts, I just can't. I think the longest I've been on is like 6 hours..that's not even a regular shift most places lol I get bogged down and usually bored when my peeps leave.. and it shows. I would love to try to get all jacked on monster when I would normally get offline and try to double my time..see if it doubles my $$..hmm
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I did a 12 hour shift and made £150.
but then sometimes I do a 3 hour shift and make £150.
i did think about it. i wanted to get up at 7am and work from 7:30 till 6:30 (11hrs), but i couldnt get out of bed. i tried really hard but i just kept hitting the snooze button. so for me it didnt work. in theory in have 2 work the long shift during the night, but it wouldnt work because it goes DEAD at 4:00am till 6:30am so its pointless being online. and i cant work evenings becos thats family time. so it could very much well be a good idea but unfortunatly for me i just cant get out of bed early enough to do it lol. im a night-owl forever.
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Re: Anyone ever tried working loooong shifts 2-3 days per week ...
If I didn't have kids, I would probably do this. I'll be without kids for 3 or possibly 4 days next week so I might give it a shot just to see how it goes.
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Originally Posted by
Starling
Oops, just realized this was in camming connection. Sorry! Thought it was club related.
It's okay. It still related to the thread. :)
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Originally Posted by
JaneBurgess
I thought about it before but I haven't actually tried it. Let us know how it goes, if you don't mind.
Yes, I'll definitely post here after my shift and let you guys know. :) Thanks for your thoughts everyone. I've been slacking all week and last night I ditched cam to hang out with a guy and I told myself I'd work 12 hours today if I didn't work yesterday.
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I work three days in a row, 8+ hours a day, then take the rest of the week off. I worked 12 hours the other day. My biggest problem is picking myself up the next day and dragging myself back in, also very tender feet. It's nice to make a good weekend chunk of money and then be able to rest for the week.
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Back in the day every so often I'd work 10-12 hours shifts when I wanted to reach certain goals but I didn't take off the rest of the week. I haven't worked 10-12 hour shifts in years. Now a days by 4 hours I'm ready to log off and by 8 hours I'm ready to knock out. I would like to get back to long shifts though and try what you said. Seems like I make the best money in the beginning of the week and then things start to slow down. It would be nice to make 50%-75% of my goal during the first few days by working long shifts and then be able to do like 2-4 hours a day for the rest of the week.
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When I'm on top of my game, I do 6-8 hour shifts, 3 days a week. It works for me and helps me reach my goals. I need to get back on it! I couldn't do longer than 8 hours though, and stay sane.
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I'd like to be able to do this...but I know myself too well lol. It's a struggle for me to even do 4 hours at a time. So as much as I'd like to try this, I'm positive it would kill me and I wouldn't stick with it.
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I get bored easily, and feel like I need a shower and a hot cup of tea after a few shows! Next time I'm child-free I am gonna try to do some 8 hour daytime shifts, with just a couple of short breaks for food & drink & whatnot.
At the moment I've set myself a schedule of 2 hours during the day & 2 hours at night, which is a nice variety, but I like the sound of getting a full night's sleep.
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I used to do 8 -10 hours shifts at nights 4 or 5 times in week and slept at daytime, when my kids were awake. Hardly saw them. Very often i burned out and did not work few weeks and was in bad mood all the time. Now i work 4 - 6 hours when my kids are in school, spend familytime in evenings and spleep at night. Much better this way just to avoid burning out again. I have no idea, what i am going to do, when the school is over already next week. I can do the long shift tonight, becouse my kids went to birtdayparty and going to stay there overnight.
If i have no kids, then i would like to do the longer shifts i think. I mean, if i already wearing that make-up... Also switching myself between my camming persona and my real persona is not always so easy for me, thats the other reason i like long shifts more.
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^^ You're so right about the bad mood comment.
I'm always in a bad mood lately, because I've been doing 8-10 hrs, minimum on cam. I did 12 hrs. yesterday, and my body is hating me right now!
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I suck. I did 5 hours and got too drunk and passed out.
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Okay tonight's another night. I'm not sure if I'll be working the weekend but I'm definitely working Sunday and Monday. And now I know what NOT to do (like not taking a drink everytime someone on cam pisses me off). I will update later hopefully with better news. :)
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I'm going to try this next week. Camming M-F is starting to annoy me. Its always the same people in free chat over and over again. I would rather work 8 hours one day and take the next off. I think it will be better for my sanity.
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I did when I had laryngitis. 20 hours in two days. It was probably easy because I couldn't talk. I made like $900 in two days.
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Originally Posted by
Smurfette
I think hottie does this. She does a camathon for the first few days of the pay period, then takes the rest of the week off. Or at least that's what I've gathered from her posts.
yepp ;)
it took me like 5 years of camming to figure out i liked doing it like that. my fav parts are that i dont have to feel guilty on days off, because now i have off when i already met my goal. and also because the more hours in a row i work my hourly average goes up. andddd i dont know where i got this horrible habit from but it takes me a long time to get ready now! (like 2 hrs)...so doing that 3 days vs like 6 days a week makes a big time difference.
if anyone wants a camathon buddy let me know!!! i get bored alot of times during long shifts :'(
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I'm going to be doing this starting this week. like jane said, I see the same names in and out my entire time I cam during the week. it's annoying, because most just come in and say hi, and never buy.
Even with camathons, I have the same names at 8 in the morning, as I do at 8 at night.
The biggest pet peeve I have is when I'm finished with even an 8 hr day, I always get a couple of emails from guys screaming-"Come back online, I want a prvt." 9really buddy? Why didn't you for all of the hours I've been online? why did u just pop in and out of chat?
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I'm going to be doing longer shifts starting this week as well. I think the longest I've ever been live has been 6 hours, but a 12+ hour day shouldn't be too hard if I split my shift between sites (as long as I take my necessary breaks. and maybe have a drink during the evening stint).