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    I'm curious as to how long everyone has been camming and even in the adult industry in general. Also, if you don't mind sharing what what prompted you to get into the adult industry. I'll start.....

    Camming for 4 monthes and I got into it because we fell on hard times and neither myself of fiancé could find work or atleast not anything over minimum wage and I'll admit I'm lazy and just can't bring myself to work for that. Anyways, my fiancé would browse CL for jobs and would always bring joke with me about the camming ads in which I would respond, no fucking way! I had never used a dildo or any sex toy before camming so you can call me a bit of a prude (that's all changed very much in the past 4 monthes...I've found my inner slutt!). So long story short one day I decided to give it a go, not to sound full of myself but i know im attractive and thought i could earn well doing it and we were desperate for income so I took the plunge signing up for flirt4free through a studio however I am a research nut so I found stripper web before I logged on for the first time and singer up for cams and sm on my own.....and that's how I evolved as a camgirl, what about you?

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    I got started doing happy ending massages after i lost my vanilla job as a legit massage therapist then a year after that my business took a dive and I started escorting for two years then after my cousin found my ad on backpage a few weeks ago I stopped escorting and now I live with him trying to get the camming to be successful.

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    Its been 12 years now since I entered the industry...I can barely remember life before it now lol and pretty sure Ill always be in the industry, in some form or another. The few times I focus on something else, I get really down and feel like something major is missing out of my life, so I delve back in a feel all happy again. So even though I burn out super fast, that I have so many options and can bounce around in different aspects of the industry keeps me interested.

    I feel like Ive told this story about 3 times in the past week alone but I got started when going through a divorce, I was doing a search for ex revenge stories to make myself feel better, this led to that, I found out about domination, that fit my mood, so I set up an acct on yahoo just to find some subbies to take out my angst on online, my very first subbie offered to pay me, delved right into the world of financial domination, and a month later we met up and I started with r/l domination.

    Did pro domination for a couple years, ended up dating that first guy, and we were in a power exchange relationship, so I did a mix of lifestyle/ pro domme/online financial domme while we were together. During that time, one of my online subs told me about NF, and asked if Id sign up so that he could pay to talk to me. So I started doing that too plus started selling vids on C4S, and for awhile there did product sales. After my breakup, I started doing a mix of domme and phone sex, then also started doing domination on cam on NF. Kept NF cam domme related, but saw the income potential in straight up vanilla erotic cam, so signed up for all the major cam sites to do that plus set up websites for indy work.

    A couple years ago added escorting to the mix which is how I make the majority of my money now. Every so often, I go back to cam, or to video, or to phone, depending on my mood, but from all the sites Ive joined throughout the years, I still make residual income even when I do nothing at all. In between all of that, have done erotic webdesign...now only do web design for myself but recently started offering photo retouching services. Very interested to see what Im doing 12yrs from now lol, Ill still be around in one way or another...the industry is in my blood now.
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    on & off almost 13 years. OMFG
    Started dancing in a go-go club when I was 18. Then I went on the road as a feature, working in Toronto. I was Miss Nude Great plains once, took 2nd place in Deja Vu Pole Olympics and auditioned for cirque de soleil (fail) while I was in canada. I also went to a few BYOB nude places in the midwest which were very lucrative but you literally had to be there from 4pm to 4am and pay $300 stage fee plus 25% of all dances. Hated travelling so I came back home to another go-go club (tiny bikinis) and a friend and I created a very successful stag/bachelor party company. After that I switched to a topless gentlemens club and stayed there for 4 years. I quit when I had my babies and tried to go back but baby daddy was a dick about it. After I put him out I started camming and have been working on it ever since. Nearly 2 years now.
    Adult industry is the only work I've known besides the occasional waitressing and bartending gig here and there.

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    When I was 18 (4 yrs ago) I hated every shitty job teenagers could get. I've always been good w/ computers & the internet as well as a very sexual person. I stumbled across MFC when looking at pix of hot girls online lol and realized these girls were actually at their own homes turning on their webcams and pulling in real money. I tried it and loved it, never looked back. Just recently gotten really into clips and am trying to upgrade my set up so I can make even better, more professional looking ones.

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    8 years, or thereabouts. Not sure if you can count gogo dancing - I never really did, but it would add an extra year or two to my tally!

    I was gogo dancing (non nude, just VERY scantily clad!) in clubs from the age of 18 - but I never really considered it adult work.

    I started stripping at 20, after taking a pole dancing class where the instructor was a dancer. We got on amazingly, and she told me I was really good and should audition. I did, and after a few months, quit my day job! I worked as a dancer for a few years in London, then briefly quit for a guy who didn't like it (and boy, was THAT a mistake!!)

    After I moved to Canada when that relationship crapped out, I tried working random vanilla jobs for a while - waitress, back to offices, barista...but just got SO sick of being utterly broke. I went back to dancing in the clubs, and also did some private party dancing with a girl I met who had done it for years.

    In the past few years I tried a bunch of different things - still stripping (and working as a body piercer and apprenticing as a tattoo artist) I did a lot of adult industry promo stuff, worked sex expos, and got into fetish and alternative nude modelling - but found it all just too much like hard work.

    I was getting really burned out at the clubs, so I started to supplement my income with camming, and then eventually got bored of piercing, and quit that too - now I just cam and blog, and am starting to write erotica....and eventually would like to write full time. But when I say eventually, I mean way down the road. I will happily stay in this industry until I am in my 50s!
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    Will be 3 years for me this December. I've only done web camming though.

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    I got into non nude camming before I was 18 and was really stupid... it was more like a chatroulette type thing back then tho. No nakedness for money so don't worry! lol But I don't count that....

    So officially 8 years. I started my pay site back in 2004 and it ended up being super successful, I was so proud! My highest check in a single week from my pay site was $4993... those were the good ol days let me tell you!!! So mad it didn't reach 5k! LOL! That was back when pay sites were GOOOOOD. Now, not so much. I quit shooting content for my website when I got pregnant with my twins... wish I would have kept going on it because I was unaware of the pregnancy fetish at the time!

    After the twins were born I got into camming in the pay per minute sense - did lots of cam shows for my members on my pay site but they got them as part of the membership - started on webcams.com for almost 2 years then went to MFC for a year, then finally SM. Been on SM for almost 2 years now. So camming full time about 5 years now! (With a break for baby #3 in there)

    I got into the adult industry because I was approached about doing a pay site since I already was getting into the light non nude camming world as mentioned above... and I already am really good with webdesign and all of that on my own so I thought, hell no I'll do it on my own and keep all the money!!! So I did!

    Kind of the same for camming, another pay site owner (male) suggested I get on cam and he would help me set that all up. Again I thought, hell no I'll set it up on my own but thanks for the idea! And I did.
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    Since 1987 - before some of you were born - I feel old - lol

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    2 Years. I started off full nude web cam model doing cum shows. Hated it. Im all for being horny and orgasming sure I love it, but i hate penetration, hate fingers.. when i masturbate on private i use a hitatchi and dont make any noise... its so boring to watch... therefore I HATED fake fake fake cum shows that I did everyday forthe first few months. I also realised I hate men and they are mostly complete assholes lol. I regret doing the cumshows because they are all over the internet now. I remove them whenever they pop up but its shit waiting a week for people to reply to dmca notices and wondering if they will or not. I will never get naked again. I don't know what the future holds for me but I want those nudey videos to vanish.. they are hideous and so not me. Other than that, I love my job.

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    I've been camming off and on for about 3 years and have been selling content for about 2. Basically, as soon as I turned 18, haha.




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    i was one of the first girls to sign up when IFriends began offering the first adult webcam hosting in 1998. Prior to that, I operated my own streaming web server as part of a pay website I started in 1996. And I started 'stripping' in 1994.


    Since 1987 - before some of you were born - I feel old - lol
    I'm totally with you that feeling old on the inside sucks !!!

    And yup you're right that some of the girls now just starting to cam weren't born yet when I started working in the adult entertainment business either !!!

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    5 years now )))))

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    I started with doing naked modelling and a low key solo video 3 years ago, and I have cammed for a few weeks in april and now try to pick it up a little bit more serious...

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    Quote Originally Posted by Nikki_Fox View Post
    Since 1987 - before some of you were born - I feel old - lol
    Side note - but when I was working as a body piercer, I realized that most of my piercings were older than most of my customers. So yeah - I know the feeling of being "old"...sucks! Just think of it as wise? LOL
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    OMG fucking 20 years as of next year, it does not feel like that. not at all

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    It's just more fun than anything else. Who wants to do anything else? Not meee
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    I'm impressed with how long alot of you have been doing this! Sometimes when I feel really burnt out I think my god I could not do this for more than a year or two - but at the same time the $$ is there and I don't know that I could ever go back to slaving for min wage.

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    for me its been all versions of AI Work, there is so many alleys to work in this biz. I love all of them.
    Quote Originally Posted by italianstarcamgirl View Post
    I'm impressed with how long alot of you have been doing this! Sometimes when I feel really burnt out I think my god I could not do this for more than a year or two - but at the same time the $$ is there and I don't know that I could ever go back to slaving for min wage.

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    Quote Originally Posted by goreantx View Post
    It's just more fun than anything else. Who wants to do anything else? Not meee
    This this this! LoL I always say, I know Im going to be in the industry in one way or another forever.
    Even if I go from getting paid to take it off, to guys begging to pay me to put my clothes back on
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    Quote Originally Posted by Nikki_Fox View Post
    Since 1987 - before some of you were born - I feel old - lol
    I was born in 87....

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    Quote Originally Posted by BlkSharpie View Post
    This this this! LoL I always say, I know Im going to be in the industry in one way or another forever.
    Even if I go from getting paid to take it off, to guys begging to pay me to put my clothes back on
    LOL! Or maybe just making that transition into the car-crash-viewing side of things....sometimes I think that I'm going to cam at 90, because you KNOW that there would be so many guys who would pay just to be grossed out by my wrinkly, tattooed ass dildoing through the arthritis! And just THINK how incredible my brand and placement would be by then!!!
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    Yup!!!! Im all in LMFAO!

    (gawd, Im really cracking up and then had the thought, lord, how will I ever find a guy to put up with me hahahaha!)
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    I started stripping back in 05, briefly worked as a webcam girl back in 08 and danced. Not dancing at all at the moment and working on becoming full time with independent camming.

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    I started in 2005 on Niteflirt as a phone operator, then eventually webcam. When I started getting requests for videos, and my BF at the time was like "you should TOTALLY do porn..." we researched the BBW girls out at the time, and found there weren't a lot of bbw's online. So, I applied for a website and took some pics and videos and within a week I was live. I've since opened my solo website, had a successful CLips store, maintained my Niteflirt account and on EVERY flippin site imaginable lol. I love being independent, self employed and in charge of my own success. <3

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