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How to burn out from caming...a guide
I saw this in the stripper thread and thought we should have this here! I'll start!
Wake up every morning/afternoon and look at the "caming rocks" thread and think, "damnit I should have stayed on later"
Spend the majority of your time offline looking at your website creeping on other models trying to judge how your shift will go.
Get online and be instantly dissapointed if you haven't made $100 the first hour.
Take two days off and then check your twittter and wonder if you"blew your week" by taking a couple of days off.
Please join in!
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Re: How to burn out from caming...a guide
Sleep in and accidentally miss your morning shift and decide to just work at night... and then don't because you hate working nights and you're worried it'll throw you off your sleep schedule. So instead you stay up all damn night doing nothing and throw yourself off schedule that way.
Not that I'm speaking from experience or anything... I definitely didn't do that today.
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Wake up at two and spend your whole day "getting ready" to go online in 6 hours, because taking a shower and tossing on makeup will take you that long.
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"Quick power nap before my first/next shift shouldn't be a problem."
*three hours later* "Fuckity fuck fuck Fucker McFuckington! I'll have to stay up all night to hit goal now!"
*five minutes later* "Fuck it all. I'll just get up early tomorrow morning and pull a long shift." *rolls over and goes back to bed*
*proceeds to oversleep*
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Wait, was this thread meant to be about burn out or my really abusive relationship with my bed?
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Re: How to burn out from caming...a guide
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Originally Posted by
Kitcatt
Wake up at two and spend your whole day "getting ready" to go online in 6 hours, because taking a shower and tossing on makeup will take you that long.
OMG this!!!
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Think of one thing you need to buy, spend 6 hours online looking at online stores, get depressed cause you cant afford all the stuff you now want.
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Feel guilty when you take time off to spend time with family/friends.
Don't go to the gym because you feel you need to work, but don't even log on.
Tell yourself off for not earning enough/working enough/being as popular as someone else.
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Re: How to burn out from caming...a guide
JAC'S Guide to Burning Out in 30 Days or Less
Turn camming into an entire lifestyle instead of just considering it a job like any other.
If you are not on cam then you better make sure that you are either spending every free minute of the day surfing the internet to learn how to make more money on cam or that you are working on your social media marketing.
Live, sleep and breathe camming. It should be the first thing you think about when you wake up and the last thing you think about when you go to sleep. If you are not having dreams where you are working on your webcam then you are doing it wrong.
Do not accept making any less then at LEAST 2k a week. If you make less then 2k a week it is because you are not trying hard enough and you suck at being a camgirl. Do not believe other camgirls who are just making excuses when they tell you that it could be that camming income waxes and wanes depending on different factors that may be happening. They are just weak and just not as committed to hustling and making money as you are.
Who needs outside interests, taking breaks or relaxation? They are just going to cost you money and slow you down anyway. Sleep is for the weak, rest is for the weak. Emotions, feelings and attachments are for the weak. If you are not a coin-operated money-making hustling machine the only reason this could be is because you are just lazy. The only flaw is you. It can't be the fact that you are working a commission job and therefore are subjected to randomness in your income. IT IS ONLY BECAUSE YOU ARE NOT TRYING HARD ENOUGH. WORK HARDER! WORK LONGER! WORK FASTER! WORK SMARTER! KEEP YOUR EYES ON THE PRIZE AND YOUR NOSE TO THE GRINDSTONE....RAH! RAH! RAH!
If you just follow my simple guidelines above I promise you that not only will you burnout in a mere 30 days you will also burnout in such an amazingly spectacular form that it will take you at least 6 months before you can even start to recover from the damage you've done to your mind, body and soul. Money-back guarantee. Void where prohibited.
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^^^ I'm reaching that point. I've done 176 hours in two weeks & still done some regular side jobs. I hope to god it gets busier because I can't take much more of that. I'm exhausted & beginning to hate everyone who comes in my room and actually blocked a guy because he used the wrong form of your. It's you're beautiful dammit lol.
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<< About half way through the JAC 30 day burn out program........ le sigh.
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Re: How to burn out from caming...a guide
Use cheap sex toys and develop UTI's daily and take antibiotics for the rest of your life.
Feel guilty when you buy anything remotely luxurious for yourself.
Attempt every fetish that goes against your moral code.
Attempt controversial shows that go against most moral codes for MFC fame regardless of consequence.
Camathon often.
Neglect your husband of sexual attention because all of it is for camming.
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Re: How to burn out from caming...a guide
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Originally Posted by
pippapippa
Sleep in and accidentally miss your morning shift and decide to just work at night... and then don't because you hate working nights and you're worried it'll throw you off your sleep schedule. So instead you stay up all damn night doing nothing and throw yourself off schedule that way.
Not that I'm speaking from experience or anything... I definitely didn't do that today.
This is so me right now! I'd love to cam during the day to catch more daylight, but because it's so dark and cold in the mornings here now (even at 8am! - Scotland), I find it so hard to get up early. I sleep til like 2pm and cam at night from 8pm for 8 hours and I'll go to sleep at 5 or 6am, but then I won't get up til 2 again and I'll only get like 1 - 2 hours of daylight until it gets dark again at 4. I actually feel like turning into a vampire and I've been really down this past month! I've tried so many times to switch to daytime for my own well being, but I feel I'm just stuck in this cycle. It's perfectly fine during the summer, but not in Winter and I'm wondering if I might have SAD. Actually considering a move to Malta!
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^This!!! Then I can't possibly get anything done before my 3 hour process of getting "mentally prepared" to go on cam. Which means creeping on models and slowly putting on makeup.
Try to work through infections and illness because, come on, you're just sitting on your ass the whole time, so like, why can't you just work?
Repeatedly take customers you can't stand because well, at least its a show.
Cam through every holiday known to man and god because "it could be busy"
Never take off a Friday or Saturday night for the same reason
And with this award winning formula realize your friend group has shrunk to 1 or 2 friends who tolerate the fact that you're only open to hang out every other Tuesday from 3-6
Then realize you have no friends to go out with anymore even if you DID want to take a weekend night off
AND REPEAT!
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Originally Posted by
Kitcatt
And with this award winning formula realize your friend group has shrunk to 1 or 2 friends who tolerate the fact that you're only open to hang out every other Tuesday from 3-6
Then realize you have no friends to go out with anymore even if you DID want to take a weekend night off
Giiiiirl...this. LOL.
1) stop working your regular shift that actually made you money because you stay up ALL night mucking about on the internet and are then too tired to work it.
2) Fall asleep at very odd hours including in your shift prime time because of your no sleep/mucking about all the time thing and then end up oversleeping. Be tired all the time because oversleeping/sleeping too much will do that to you.
3) Bemoan the fact that you aren't making any money because "duH" you're not actually working.
4) Make sure that you make JUST enough to pay bills, never spoil yourself ever. Burn out mentally because you have no quality of life.
5) Attempt to work 11-15 hours a day. Nuff said.
6) Never use any of your money for experiences. Stay cooped up in your apartment and spend your money on food. Develop really bad eating habits.
7) Eat junk. All the time. Your immune system will take a huge hit and you will not be able to do long hours. Carry on regardless.
8 ) Keep sleeping with your shitbag of an ex because you have no time to meet new guys. (Happily I stopped this a while ago). Feel like crap every moment you are with him and transfer that to cam. Stay on longer than you should, become complacent about guys hurling abuse at you. Cry yourself to sleep and repeat.
9) Cut out ALL fun activities from your life. Hobbies? Fun things? None of that at all.
10) Never take vacations because dammit, camming IS a vacation!! Well, at least you convince yourself it is because you work from your bed. Not true.
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Re: How to burn out from caming...a guide
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Originally Posted by
justanothercamgirl
JAC'S Guide to Burning Out in 30 Days or Less
Turn camming into an entire lifestyle instead of just considering it a job like any other.
If you are not on cam then you better make sure that you are either spending every free minute of the day surfing the internet to learn how to make more money on cam or that you are working on your social media marketing.
Live, sleep and breathe camming. It should be the first thing you think about when you wake up and the last thing you think about when you go to sleep. If you are not having dreams where you are working on your webcam then you are doing it wrong.
Do not accept making any less then at LEAST 2k a week. If you make less then 2k a week it is because you are not trying hard enough and you suck at being a camgirl. Do not believe other camgirls who are just making excuses when they tell you that it could be that camming income waxes and wanes depending on different factors that may be happening. They are just weak and just not as committed to hustling and making money as you are.
Who needs outside interests, taking breaks or relaxation? They are just going to cost you money and slow you down anyway. Sleep is for the weak, rest is for the weak. Emotions, feelings and attachments are for the weak. If you are not a coin-operated money-making hustling machine the only reason this could be is because you are just lazy. The only flaw is you. It can't be the fact that you are working a commission job and therefore are subjected to randomness in your income. IT IS ONLY BECAUSE YOU ARE NOT TRYING HARD ENOUGH. WORK HARDER! WORK LONGER! WORK FASTER! WORK SMARTER! KEEP YOUR EYES ON THE PRIZE AND YOUR NOSE TO THE GRINDSTONE....RAH! RAH! RAH!
If you just follow my simple guidelines above I promise you that not only will you burnout in a mere 30 days you will also burnout in such an amazingly spectacular form that it will take you at least 6 months before you can even start to recover from the damage you've done to your mind, body and soul. Money-back guarantee. Void where prohibited.
This is AMAZINGLY WRITTEN JAC! Is the definition of WORKAHOLIC Camgirls, soo true!
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I co-sign everything stated in this thread.
I'm a hermit, I have 0 friends, I loathe going out of my house and require a whole day off to do my Friday errands because lets get real, I can't just get in from shopping and paying bills, I need time to sit down, relax, etc... and when I'm not on cam, I'm either attempting to get a bit of sleep, on twitter, or this forum or creeping camgirls during my 'time off' from cam, and spending 3 hours to put on a bit of foundation, eyeshadow, blush, and eyeliner and put in my hair, when in all reality I could do it in 30mins, but taking frequent breaks while 'getting ready' is a must, and of course it takes me 20-30 mins to put eyedrops in before I do my makeup, duh.
Oversleep all the time. ALL THE TIME! Must drink more coffee and energy drinks, and why am I posting this when I TOLD myself I would get online when I wanted to, oh. cause of the 20-30mins of eyedrops, gotcha, I forgot!
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Spend money on beauty treatments, but ones you don't like so much. After all, its not really about how your new nail colour makes YOU feel, its about whether or not it will pop on cam. Want a BEAUTIFUL set of nude nails that you are in love with? NO. Get dark ones for the umpteenth time because even if you kinda hate how you look in private, it pops on cam and is effective.
Present yourself in a way that you hate, but that you think will "appeal to a fetish". For instance, rock a bush when you HATE how it feels and feel disgusting in your own body. Tell yourself its not about you, its about getting more spenders and more money. Play the role of the dumb girl, even though your intelligence can run rings around these assholes. Its not about finding moments of "you" happiness in your job by having stimulating conversations. Its about the bottom line.
Both these things lead to a large amount of self loathing and despair. You always feel ugly, not good etc and when you cam like that its even more difficult, so you work longer hours and before you know it, because of your body discomfort, you are burnt the fuck out.
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Spend every waking moment regretting NOT starting to cam when I was 21, single, and childless instead of starting a camming career when I now have a 1 year old and cant commit to a proper schedule, therefore perpetuating a constant feeling of failure in my inability to reach the level of success I want.
Stressing over the fact that I can't portray my real personality the way I want to on cam and therefore have a harder time attracting customers who are into the whole "hangout" type room, and instead I end up playing some ditzy blonde and then thinking to myself "what the fuck is wrong with you?"
Spending 2+ hours getting ready, stressing over makeup, having anxiety over which lipstick color I choose to wear because I simply make more money when I wear certain colors, and I worry that if I even attempt to change anything, I will be destined to have a shit night.
Changing my lighting constantly, moving my room around, buying unneccessary items for camming in hopes that it will somehow help me generate more income, when that is nearly impossible when I am not even "online" to make money
Spending my entire day cleaning, mixing baby formula, and doing laundry feeling like a domestic robot, and then logging on cam, usually spending the first hour of my shift being asked by my customers to "gag and make my eyes water" usually resulting in a sore throat the next day. Then feeling serious envy of all the cam girls that have children that are just so much more organized and capable than I feel I am.
Having my husband watch my cam and take screenshots of me, so that I can carefully examine my hair, makeup, and outfit.
Often times basing my entire self-worth on whether or not I have had a great week camming. Letting a less than awesome week send me into a downhill spiral of self hatred.
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Originally Posted by
webcamcutie
I co-sign everything stated in this thread.
I'm a hermit, I have 0 friends, I loathe going out of my house and require a whole day off to do my Friday errands because lets get real, I can't just get in from shopping and paying bills, I need time to sit down, relax, etc... and when I'm not on cam, I'm either attempting to get a bit of sleep, on twitter, or this forum or creeping camgirls during my 'time off' from cam, and spending 3 hours to put on a bit of foundation, eyeshadow, blush, and eyeliner and put in my hair, when in all reality I could do it in 30mins, but taking frequent breaks while 'getting ready' is a must, and of course it takes me 20-30 mins to put eyedrops in before I do my makeup, duh.
Oversleep all the time. ALL THE TIME! Must drink more coffee and energy drinks, and why am I posting this when I TOLD myself I would get online when I wanted to, oh. cause of the 20-30mins of eyedrops, gotcha, I forgot!
THIS!!!!
Also, compare yourself to the more successful models. Do that ALL of the time. Go into their rooms to see that they have a lot more traffic than you do. Tell yourself that the men think you're ugly or fat. That that is the reason why traffic is light in your room.
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You accidently call your friend bb by text.
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Make sure that every time you feel sick or hurt, that you berate yourself for your own weakness! Who cares that you can't turn your head? Or that you feel like an ugly, nauseas sack of crap? Get your ass online and make some money!
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Re: How to burn out from caming...a guide
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Originally Posted by
BadBitch
THIS!!!!
Also, compare yourself to the more successful models. Do that ALL of the time. Go into their rooms to see that they have a lot more traffic than you do. Tell yourself that the men think you're ugly or fat. That that is the reason why traffic is light in your room.
I just creep other cam girls I idolize and think they're smexy and wanna do girl on girl vids with..... I don't do it to knock myself, I'm pretty awesome.. Haha
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Live and breathe camming. Don't spend money enjoying life, spend it on new cam shit. Make sure your SO/friends hear about nothing but camming, and how you really should be on cam at that very moment.
Wanna get sushi/go out for dinner? No! First of all, you'll be too tired to cam after, second; you can't eat food you love because it could make you fat (unless your a BBW).
Don't make your cam space comfortable either, because that uncomfortable couch you cam on looks really nice, and back pain is for wimps!
Plan for that next burn out by saving every cent, and when you do spend; spend stocking your home with the cheapest junk food and toilet paper you can buy!
Never use lube! Make sure your pussy aches and is swollen after every shift, you don't wanna enjoy any aspect of camming.
Start your self on some sort of horrible hormonal birth control to stop your period, who cares if it makes you sick! You can cam every day that way! Bonus points if it makes you too sick to eat, that just helps you save on groceries!
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176 hours in 2 weeks? Yea. That would burn me out real fast. Having a day job I don't think I have ever done more that 25 hours in a week. Just not enough time working a day job and a daughter too.
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Worrying about leaving to pee in case you lose money. What sore tummy?