
Originally Posted by
Melonie
before you feel too 'guilty' about earning $30+ per hour by camming, keep in mind that ...
- with a vanilla job you would be building a work history and seniority benefits. With camming, you're creating a big 'blank' in terms of work history you want to tell future vanilla employers about.
- with a vanilla job you would be building 'references' that could help you regarding future career advancement opportunities. With camming, you're building a 'paper trail' as well as an online 'library' containing any number of 'adult' images of yourself, which could hurt your future vanilla career opportunities.
- with a vanilla job, you could potentially keep working for 40+ years until retirement age. With camming, after some number of years, you're most likely going to face a situation of being too 'old' to continue to be an effective webcam earner ... but still being 20 years short of being eligible for retirement benefits.
Bottom line is that dancing and camming 'seem' like great earnings opportunities when you're 20. But they both extract a 'price' ( lost opportunity cost, actually ) when you're 40. To equal that out, it's necessary to put aside a fair amount of your high earnings during those 'productive' years to make up for the 'disadvantages' you will face between the point where you retire from dancing or camming and the point when you are eligible to receive retirement benefits. So from that viewpoint, between additional self-employment taxes and setting money aside to make up for the 'disadvantages' to come later, that $30+ per hour actually winds up being more like a $15 per hour vanilla job.
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