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    Default Ever noticed how working for yourself makes you rich and fulla time

    Just had to rant a minute.

    I've noticed that because of my job (specifically my brother) people will call and the first thing he says is ..."so what are you doing today besides working?"

    besides working??! well gee besides that I guess my day is free?
    Who needs to work anyway right?

    It's almost like he thinks cuz I work for myself I don't need to work lol

    And to make it even more ironic he calls to see if I'll skip work so that I can watch his kids,so he can go find....WORK
    although this isn't the first time

    It always starts out like that,doing anything but working today? Can you take us to the store

    Doing anything but working today can you watch the kids?
    Doing anything but working today can you take us to the dr

    Fuck man...If I had any other job these things wouldn't occur I feel. Who the hell expects you to skip work with any other job

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    Default Re: Ever noticed how working for yourself makes you rich and fulla time

    just brush it off.
    I get people who know what I do telling me " so what have u done today"?
    bleah.

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    It happens with EVERY work from home job, and it sucks - such a huge setback for small businesses and freelancers. Until I put my foot down and told people "I work from x am to x pm and expect that time to respected" I was always treated as last resort babysitting and couldn't even work vanilla because the kids aren't well versed in just amusing themselves for more than uh... 2 seconds. The schedule (which was BS by the way, I often worked more or at non traditional hours) helped me drive the point home of "look, I don't prance around the house in jammies working whenever, I put in 8 hours like everyone else."

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    Default Re: Ever noticed how working for yourself makes you rich and fulla time

    I hear this day in and day out from friends, family, etc...

    "When are you going to get a real job?"

    "Did you do anything today?"

    "You didn't do anything today - All you did was sit in-front of a computer."

    "Lets go hangout, I know you're home!"

    The holy grail of all that I hate: "Why didn't you clean the house/finish the laundry/cook my dinner, you're home all day while I'm out working!" (Bugs me the most, No one pays me to play maid for you!!)

    My mother constantly, "You could get such and such job, they're hiring...$9/hr!" Haha, no.







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    Default Re: Ever noticed how working for yourself makes you rich and fulla time

    Well since you are not working a REAL job, how about helping us buy our kids Christmas? I mean seriously? WTF?
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    Default Re: Ever noticed how working for yourself makes you rich and fulla time

    Quote Originally Posted by sweetgapeach View Post
    Well since you are not working a REAL job, how about helping us buy our kids Christmas? I mean seriously? WTF?
    That doesn't make any sense to me. Trying to find the logic in that statement makes my head hurt. Fake jobs do not pay real money and therefore you have nothing to spend on frivolous things like "Christmas presents".

    I'd tell her to shove it. She can afford to buy her kids whatever their fickle hearts desire.

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    Default Re: Ever noticed how working for yourself makes you rich and fulla time

    Yea.

    I do ignore it that wasn't really the point of my thread. I'm just saying the way some people think amuses me.

    I don't get degraded like it's not a real job or anything. Kinda the opposite really.

    Instead they just think I'm rich and can skip out of it whenever I want to because I work for myself.


    Like I don't have a boss so I must be able to pick up and leave whenever I want hehe.
    Which is true! I know this...just annoying people would expect you to do so.

    I can't wait for him to get a job so I can call him and be like...dude sorry I know your working but can you just take the rest of the day off I kinda need a babysitter.

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    This was actually one of the contributing factors towards deciding to spend most of 'retirement' way south of the border. The other reason of course was legal avoidance of X amount of US taxes on my investment income !

    But before I moved way south, since I was no longer 'officially' working as a travelling dancer anymore, family members were trying to pull all of the above ... 'free' babysitter on short / zero notice ... expecting me to pick up groceries / prescriptions / kids ... taking other people's cars in for repairs while they borrow my nice car to get to their 'real' job ... 4-6-8 people gathering at my house for dinner since I have the 'time' to cook from scratch ( using groceries from MY garden, fridge and freezer of course ) ...

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    Quote Originally Posted by SybilVain View Post
    It happens with EVERY work from home job, and it sucks - such a huge setback for small businesses and freelancers. Until I put my foot down and told people "I work from x am to x pm and expect that time to respected" I was always treated as last resort babysitting and couldn't even work vanilla because the kids aren't well versed in just amusing themselves for more than uh... 2 seconds. The schedule (which was BS by the way, I often worked more or at non traditional hours) helped me drive the point home of "look, I don't prance around the house in jammies working whenever, I put in 8 hours like everyone else."
    This is very true.

    I worked from home for a medical transcription company before the business went under. It was the #3 MT company in the US, serving many major hospitals and I was promoted to a supervisory position within a few years. I had 40 people I supervised, worked 50 hours at least and most of the time more.

    I still got no respect from family and some "friends". I ended up having to install a lock on my office door and putting up a DND sign to get anything done! I put a vm message up that I can not be reached during work hours. Some of my so-called friends and family actually laughed at this, even though I was making many times what they made at their shitty jobs and *should* have gotten at least some respect I feel for doing a difficult and complicated job well enough to be promoted.

    I've since dropped a lot of these people from my life.
    The few people who were intelligent enough to know how hard I actually was working and respect that have remained.


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    Ugh yes! All my friends use to think I was rich and could just do whatever because I am at home all the time.

    Also I swear to fucking god if I hear one person ask me about when I am going to get a real job...I am going to shove my hand and everything else I can get my hands on so far up their ass until they get anal prolapse!


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    Agree with this! Today I asked my fiance why HE doesn't cam, and he was like ''Because I don't have the time! What do YOU do all day? You have the time to put in hours". I'm like ''yeah.....bc I'm WORKING and making atleast 500-1000 a week.....so damn right that's what I do!''

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    Default Re: Ever noticed how working for yourself makes you rich and fulla time

    I started doing independent contract work a year before starting camming (now I do both) to escape my crappy office job and have some hope of getting out of debt eventually. Now I make 5 times as much money, and my family still asks when I'm going to get a real job and sends me links to online postings for shitty job openings.

    It's like others have said on here, you don't have a real job unless you're toiling away like a peon for a shitty wage.

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    I don't think they'd ever understand, really... I had the same issue when I was writing and my mom was always bitching around saying I was sitting on a chair ALL day doing nothing.

    Now I think I'm lucky that I have such a comprehensive boyfriend who understand the effort I made camming. He nows I get tired after looking "adorable" for hours while camming because all my muscles are in tension while dancing and even sitting there looking cute.

    We need to understand that they rest will never understand, lol, and just make ourselves clear with the ones that are importants and affect us directly.

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    Yes, that is one of the downsides to working at home. People think you have all kinds of free time. You can always work "later" lol
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    Yeah my friends are like this. They think I just spend my days rolling around in piles of money and don't actually have to put any work in.

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    Oh, just because I raise a 16 month at home AND webcam during naptimes and RIGHT at 7 when she goes to bed doesn't mean I have a job. It means I also need to do dishes, laundry, and have lots and lots of real life kinky sex. lol I know how yall feel.

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    I know exactly how you feel!

    I have another job part time in the tattoo industry, and there is one co-worker who is ALWAYS asking me to cover her counter shifts. And when I say I'm working that day, she makes a big deal about how "but you choose your hours, right? So you can just work whenever, its not like it matters. You can cover me." How about NO, BITCH!?!?!

    I've even tried sitting down and explaining to her (through a clenched jaw) that I have to go on set times because a) I have told customers I will be on and I don't want to lose customers by never being around, b) If I am on at irregular times, I won't have my regular customers on, and I will make less money c) making less money & working less hours means lower placement, which means, shock horror, less money!! I covered her for three days, and tried to point out that that probably cost me a grand over the next couple months due to all the factors listed above...lower placement, lost regs, etc.

    She just thinks that its "easy" and "not work" and its just basically free time. And that even if I DO lose $100, or $400, I'll just make that back tomorrow, right? Snarl
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    Quote Originally Posted by ManyRoses View Post
    I know exactly how you feel!

    I have another job part time in the tattoo industry, and there is one co-worker who is ALWAYS asking me to cover her counter shifts. And when I say I'm working that day, she makes a big deal about how "but you choose your hours, right? So you can just work whenever, its not like it matters. You can cover me." How about NO, BITCH!?!?!

    I've even tried sitting down and explaining to her (through a clenched jaw) that I have to go on set times because a) I have told customers I will be on and I don't want to lose customers by never being around, b) If I am on at irregular times, I won't have my regular customers on, and I will make less money c) making less money & working less hours means lower placement, which means, shock horror, less money!! I covered her for three days, and tried to point out that that probably cost me a grand over the next couple months due to all the factors listed above...lower placement, lost regs, etc.

    She just thinks that its "easy" and "not work" and its just basically free time. And that even if I DO lose $100, or $400, I'll just make that back tomorrow, right? Snarl
    Maybe you can agree to cover for her if she compensates you for that $400 you probably lost!

    I hate how people will try to take advantage. ugh!


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    I just switched phone companies and have a new number. I only gave it out to a few people who do not bug the fuck out of me all day. I really really hate it when people call me during the day and they know I am working. Such a huge pet peeve of mine. And some of those people actually think I am trying to be rude because I will not take off work to go do shit for or with them. That really pisses me off. Anyway OP I think a lot of us have that problem. I am determined to ignore anyone who does not treat my work time and my job serious as they expect me to treat theirs.
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    Default Re: Ever noticed how working for yourself makes you rich and fulla time

    I have the same problem. Now I put a note on my door that says "I work from home. Please respect that and call me before you come over!"

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    Same problem here! Friends call me any time of the day to chat and are offended when I tell them I can't because I'm working. I work for myself so I obviously can choose my hours. As for being rich, this was my favourite ever:
    - Why do you let your family work?
    - ?????
    - Well, you're in the adult industry! If I were as rich as you, I wouldn't let my family work.

    (as absurd as it sounds, it happened...)

    Yeah, ok...I wish I was as rich as you imagine me to be!

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    my sister knows that i work from home, but she doesnt know exactly what i do ,my brother is more understeanding and he does know, but one time he was speaking with her and told her (just god knows why) how much i make... the point is shes allways talking like "im doing easy money because im at home"
    She got very fat in the last year and i told her to come with me to excersise cause i can make her look very good in 60 days, i love working out and she said "no, i dont want, when i come home im very tired, youre lucky , u can do that because u work AT HOME" she sound like if i dont work at all.
    And im thinking to tell her what i do cause isnt like i dont work for it, i regulary work everyday mond-fri 5-8 hours and literally put my vagina to work. So isnt fair if she has frustrations with her look, her income and the way she looks justify it all "cause i got it easier" .
    that simply isnt true, because besides my 5-8 hours camming im a social networking freak and im allways advertising myself outside what i could call "working hours"

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    I must be the luckiest camgirl in the world. My friends are very understanding. Maybe it is because I have explained to them my time is worth 'a buck a minute.'

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    Hey peach. Maybe you can invite your sister to work with you on cam - since it is so easy - It takes alot of self discipline to work for your self in any industry People with follow the herd mentality just never get it

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    "can we go grocery shopping?" people (friends, family) expecting me to give them rides to the grocery store and spend the hour or so pushing around a cart. I swear before I moved to the suburbs I would get this question almost daily from people I know. No, I don't go to No Frills 7 days a week.

    I am the only one that drives amongst my friends/family. Now that I don't live downtown they don't bother me as much.



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