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Why did you start camming?
Hi,
It's been a long while since I've been back here... I moved back to the vanilla world. But, however, my new personal project requires me to come back here to ask a few questions that will help my creative direction in character building. It's a project I've been wanting to do for a while. Something about us camgirls told from our perspective. Not some lame documentary made by a guy who thinks he knows what we go through.
Anyway, I've known a lot of girls doing this, but I realized that I haven't really asked a lot of you why you ever started doing it. Why this, and not some other job? I mean, sure, the money is always appealing, but I'd love to hear any other odd and interesting stories ^_^
I'll start. I never needed the money. I was always fully supported by my parents, and was going to college at the time. I was curious and wanted to see what it was like to have people watch me while I diddled myself. Then I liked it. Now I have a boyfriend so I stopped.
You can either post here or send me a private message if you feel it's too personal.
So, when did you start, and why?
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After I got robbed at gunpoint @ my last job I just found I didn't have it in me anymore to work shit minimum wage jobs due to issues w anxiety and depression. I am already a full time student paying my way and the long hours at work were killing me. I've actually felt a lot happier than I have in a long time lately thanks to this community and all the good things camming has brought to my life.
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My BFF who handled answering my myspace page & all the emails I got daily to them into a sale for me talked me into it. She harped on me until I looked into it and asked around. Imlive just started the pornstar/celebrity page. Was about the 16 porn star they signed up. No free chat, charged $8.99 per minute, would cam for about an hour make $180 then log off.
This was about 2006 or 2007 that I first cammed, been doing it ever since. Straight up tell you, I did it for the money. It was another source of revenue for me. Now, I do it because it is fun, it is the future of porn, great for build a brand and fan base. Yet more importantly to this day, FOR THE MONEY!
Honestly, I can see cam performers becoming bigger names than porn stars, soon reality stars & one day tv stars. We have a platform & can broadcast anytime. It can be our own variety show, talk show, acting bit and such. There is no limit where we can take this in the world of media and stardom. Which also means our incomes can be unlimited too.
Now, did I do some soul searching before I cammed? nope
Every time I read threads like this or get asked this stuff in an interview, I think what a bunch of BS. Do people who wait tables get asked such things? What about lawyers? Do you ponder why the guy who's ass crack is hanging out why he fixes the toilet became a plummer for a living? Does it satisfy him on some soul searching level to be knee deep on someone else's shit? Do you care if the person installing the cable box is happy with his career choices?
Why must we have alternative motives to be a cam girl or porn star instead of just money? The ability to make money 24/7 based upon sales ability and good enough looks to pull it off seems like more than enough reason to me. It is a job, a great one with lots of potential, but if it didn't. Simply would move onto something else.
Yes, I have fun at my job. It is a creative outlet and many challenges that excite me. Also was a great waitress, had wonderful customers, but didn't feel the need to wait on them when NOT at work. Didn't need a deep dark secret or hidden reason to wait tables.
Sam
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I used to have an exhibitionist fetish (guess I still do!) and I used to post nudes of myself (without face) on different NSFW forums online. It made me feel sexy knowing how excited guys were getting over my body :) Soon enough, I started getting private messages from guys asking to buy custom photos, videos, and panties. I was going to university full time, and making pics/vids and selling panties in my spare time, and realized that guys apparently pay a LOT for custom made porn!
Eventually this all led to camming - I can't remember exactly what made me take the leap into camming and showing my face and letting it all hang out, but I think the promise of "easy money" definitely helped. I made a ton of mistakes my first couple months - signed up with a terrible studio, didn't know what the hell I was doing in free chat, only logged on when I felt like it, etc. Finally discovered SW and now I treat camming like an actual job and I'm so much better at hustling and understanding sexuality and kinks :)
I still have fun on cam and I still get off knowing how excited I make these guys, but money is my main motivator now, after realizing how quickly I can pay off my debts and start investing the rest. I still have my degree from uni, after all, and I want to eventually spend more time on finding a job in that field too. (I still think I would cam on the side, but not 40 hours a week like I try to now)
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I have been fired in 2002 of my vanilla job ...newly divorced,with a little son, living into my parents house,broken heart, broken life,broken dreams , broken pockets , not being able to buy my son a damn thing , 35 yo and dependent on my retired parents . I have been struggling for two months to find a job ,going to countless job interviews, into my domain ,just to hear the " we will call you back " and that to never happend . One day i bought again a "jobs newspapper " and saw a videochat studio's announce hiring models -i have had no clue what videochat means , i didnt know a word in english beside "hi , how are you " but i have been so disperate for a job that i went to that interview.They took me and the adventure began . It has been the "ifriends " time , they had that rule, that every new model to videochat for a month into the "International-no nude" cathegory . The studio manager asked me to stay for a couple of days with a "no nude" model and see what is she doing ,then they left me alone . The "no nude " cathegory , speaking no english yet needing so much the money that into the first week i made it to $100 , my money . Dont ask me how , i even have no clue how but, then i realised that ,when you really want to do something , you CAN . After 8 months of working for that studio, they robbed us , took all of our monies and i decided to try to work from home . 2016, speaking and spelling some decent and fluent english, still selling good , someday banking, someday sucking but this is life . We are having here a saying , into an aproximate translation : " Every kick into the ass is a step forwards " :)
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I started because I'm an exhibitionist, but being married with 2 kids makes having sex in public less than a good idea these days. I quit because I'm lazy and was only doing it for fun. I'm back because my husband got laid off....and I think the stress must be showing because I have shit for traffic today.
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I started camming because I realized that if I was going to get sexually harassed all the time everywhere I go, I might as well make a living off of it and enjoy the attention. Now perverts can catcall me all they want, they can stare, they can be lewd and show me their dicks...as long as they got Benjamin's, I love all of it.
Other than the money, other reasons I love being a Camscort is the creativity, the freedom to say whatever the fuck I want to whoever, (so what if they are the CEO of a Fortune 500 company, on cam, I'm the boss), and the stage to perform whatever skill I want to exhibit whether that's deep throating or singing with a ukulele.
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http://womenontopp.com/index.php/201...-entrepreneur/
Seems pretty much the reason why I cam. The call of the entrepreneur spirit lives deep down in my bones.
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I'm a giant sloot with daddy issues ::)
but all seriousness the mother fucking money. I read what some girls can make and I was like hmm maybe I can try.
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I just wanna say, Welcome Back! I remember you. :)
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Originally Posted by
Lola4u
I have been fired in 2002 of my vanilla job ...newly divorced,with a little son, living into my parents house,broken heart, broken life,broken dreams , broken pockets , not being able to buy my son a damn thing , 35 yo and dependent on my retired parents . I have been struggling for two months to find a job ,going to countless job interviews, into my domain ,just to hear the " we will call you back " and that to never happend . One day i bought again a "jobs newspapper " and saw a videochat studio's announce hiring models -i have had no clue what videochat means , i didnt know a word in english beside "hi , how are you " but i have been so disperate for a job that i went to that interview.They took me and the adventure began . It has been the "ifriends " time , they had that rule, that every new model to videochat for a month into the "International-no nude" cathegory . The studio manager asked me to stay for a couple of days with a "no nude" model and see what is she doing ,then they left me alone . The "no nude " cathegory , speaking no english yet needing so much the money that into the first week i made it to $100 , my money . Dont ask me how , i even have no clue how but, then i realised that ,when you really want to do something , you CAN . After 8 months of working for that studio, they robbed us , took all of our monies and i decided to try to work from home . 2016, speaking and spelling some decent and fluent english, still selling good , someday banking, someday sucking but this is life . We are having here a saying , into an aproximate translation : " Every kick into the ass is a step forwards " :)
Wow, very inspirational, thank YOU!
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I started camming because I am an attention whore but we're all whores in some ways. Some are just more honest than others.
Now I am a PAID whore so that makes me WHOREGEOUS!
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Marina Starr
LOL I read a line recently that cracked me up. Do you know what whores do in their off time? Count their money.
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And laugh our ways to the bank!
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Sam38g
LOL I read a line recently that cracked me up. Do you know what whores do in their off time? Count their money.
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Moneyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy.
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Often times quote Mae West on here, but now inspired to quote Liberace... :)
What you said hurt me very much. I cried all the way to the bank.
Liberace Liberace
You know that bank I used to cry all the way to? I bought it.
Liberace Liberace
"I didn't get dressed like this to go unnoticed."
Nobody will believe in you unless you believe in yourself.
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I had just gotten a job at Best Buy at the time, was living with my dad, but my license was suspended and I had to pay $500 to get it reinstated and I knew I couldn't make that money off of the crap 20 hrs at my vanilla job, so I did an internet search, signed up with ImLive, made the $500 and quit when I moved out... But then when I lost a job a couple years later, I went back to it and it's sort of been my thing since then, on and off when my vanilla job just isn't cutting it. Right now I'm attempting to go full time but finding it difficult, probably since I've only ever been on and off. But in reality, the reason I went to this full time is because I have severe agoraphobia, social and general anxiety, and bi-polar and going to a vanilla job everyday is so difficult for me because I end up losing my job over some days not being able to go into work, so this is a job where I make the schedule and if I'm having an off day, don't have to work, which is best for me.
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Diamond Dust
Camming is fun, camming is freedom. I only have to answer to myself.
^this.
Plus, not having to leave the house/put pants on in order to make money.
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Thank you so much girls :) this is helping me so much. Keep it coming!!!
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I wanted to work from home :)
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I've always wanted to be independent to the absolute largest degree possible. Having worked a few dead-end normal jobs, I knew they weren't worth it in terms of what they gave me. They took so much of my time and so much of my mental energy and I was still poor as shit and too tired to do any of the stuff I actually care about. I can come off as intelligent and educated if I try but the truth is I dropped out of high school twice so I don't really have the chance of a "normal" career that pays more than a pittance, even if I wanted one. An old friend mentioned she started camming and was making good money so that put the idea into the back of my head and then I dated another cam performer/escort who turned me on to some sites to get started. And I guess I did. It has its ups and downs for me, mainly downs recently, but it's still interesting enough that I'd rather do this than any other job at the moment.
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I absolutely hated my last job, which was serving at a restaurant. I've also always wanted to work from home. So when I had enough of my shit ass job, I looked on Craigslist for work at home jobs and came across an ad where a studio was advertising "cam modeling". I researched camming for a good two or three months and then finally quit my shit job and only did camming.
Best decision ever.
Even though there are tons of days where traffic is excruciating slow, it's still worth it for me because I can stay home and not have to worry about leaving the house for a specific amount of time. Yay!
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Money, freedom to travel when I want, plus I'm a kinky mother fucker and it was just an additional way to get my kink on. I sucked at it so bad when i first started though. Now I'm kicking ass and I'm so glad I decided to just jump in and do it.
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It was a twisty and fun road with a number of influences that led me to camming. Basically it seemed like a great solution to my ambitions and responsibilities and still is. It's been an awesome segue from porn - which is what I started to do, but I made it complicated by needing to handpick male talent, direct production, regulate distribution and research everything - and I feel free to produce as often as I want without relying on other talent/producers, having to deal with wackass marketing/distribution situations or fussing with childcare rearrangements. It's my exploration of freedom and power that led me to camming. Truthfully, my development of freedom and power has led me to a bunch of stuff...
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Cashh. Recently my vanilla biz has started grossing £80k so now I just cam for dailypay and supplementary income for goodies!