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    I am a bit of a worrier so bare with me! I haven't been in the industry that long just coming up 18 months. A large chunk of my money comes from text chat which worries me as will people really pay huge amounts per text forever?! The rest comes from camming on a couple of sites. I am working on regs and hopefully now I'm consistent will build my brand and look into clips etc. I'm also trying to get some PSO work on NF and TTM to spread my risk if you like but I have had a huge case of too many eggs before so just trying to get a schedule and camming going again for now.

    I don't have ambitions to be anything else I have bills to pay and enjoy the freedom this gives me to work from home among commitments of family etc. Okay every model has different goals but how many others are in this for the longer term and feel comfortable with that. I am older probably than a lot of girls and not wanting to earn huge amounts just a comfortable income I guess I just worry how long it's going to last?

    Do a lot of us have other plans and should I have one? Does everyone burn out?

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    I'm in my mid 20 and just started full time camming. Never had a 'real' job after university because I just don't want to. My goal is to work full time 10-15 years, buy a house save enough money then retire.

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    My plans include becoming an adult content writer and litetotica writer. I also want to build a blog empowering women in the sex industry and wherever. I'd rather do PSO work and write so I can build various streams of money to pay off my bills and make a comfortable living for myself. I'm also getting into sugar dating and findom work which involves a lot of research.



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    Horny, you and I share a lot of the same interests and frustrations when it comes to finding ourselves and making it in this industry.



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    Im 39
    I have been talking with my daughter who is on her way to college about what I want to be when I grow up
    I will need to go back to community college to freshen up my business courses and just give me clarity of how I want to handle my future. I need to get out of my realm to further myself or I will just sit here and not move one lick, cam until im in the grave. not gonna happen
    I love cam, I love my fans I dont see letting it go fully, ever. I love being a fetish that morphs into other things.

    I want to own a coffee shop. I really do. I want to bake goods, serve coffee and teas with a bohemian feel. I can hire a cpl workers and have a quaint mother/daughter shop (she'll be traveling but shes my BFF! and know if I ever need backup, shes my girl to call) I might not get rich but I will not want for anything if its ran properly.

    Everything has its up and downs

    i use to have a little nail salon and could fall back into the business but I know all about that. Its another gig fulfilling a certain type of people and depend solely on myself to get the job done.

    Future planning is essential with everyone, if its 1 month to a lifetime plan, it is needed
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    If things work out, I should be able to afford a little house within 5 years! That is what I'm working towards... Squirreling away most of my earnings. I want to get out of this rental trap for good

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    I plan to be in this industry for 10 more years at least, but I am aggressively paying down the limited debt that I do have, and after that I will continue to save that money because I have an exit plan business, but it has a high up-front capital cost so I'll need to have a lot squirreled away. I think it is smart to have a transition plan, at least when you are 3-5 years from retiring from the adult entertainment industry. As much as there are successful women camming, filming, doing PSO, etc in their 50s, I am pretty sure that I won't want to. I love this biz right now, but I know that I will want out down the line, so I am planning for that.

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    Camming is great but its time for me to move on to something else.

    I did my semester of college at the same time I found my affiliate marketing program. Getting ready to travel next week for my company convention and I am more excited about building my internet business more then ever.

    So for me it's going to be all about setting up my digital products -ebooks, full online course, and coaching programs. Probably thinking of making a coaching course for sex workers looking to build an online business outside of sex work.

    Stepping into the world of becoming a professional internet marketer and building my network marketing business so many people I am meeting who are making money from the internet and are not getting naked for it.

    Things are definitely scaling up for me.
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    Nina Hartley is my role model - would love to be like her when I'm older: sex-positive, feminist, and involved in lots of projects.

    and as I get the clips/camming going better, have time to write more Kindle books (I've written a few, would like to write more. they were not sex work-related).

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    My goal is to always be busy doing something, anything that is creative.
    I know from firsthand experience, that when someone stops, they just deteriorate.
    My aunt and the woman who lives in my house are both in their 70's. Both have pretty much given up on living.
    No friends, family hates them, and all they do is sit in front of the TV from morning till night. They never go anywhere. They are both healthy, so they're more than capable. Both have a negative view on everything and are just plain grumpy.
    To see them like this is very inspirational to me, because I want to be the opposite.
    As far as camming goes, I'll do it until something else catches my interest.
    Life's interesting with its twists and turns. I've already had many, many chapters.
    Looking forward to what's around the bend.

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    I'm hoping to stay in the adult industry for a while and make enough clips so that it becomes a passive income. After that I don't have to upload and work that often. When it comes to that I'll combine it with a vanilla-business
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    Real estate investing.. hoping to buy my first investment this year, if not early part of next year.. will continue to cam until it's no longer profitable for me to do so .. I want to do multifamily rentals and flip some houses and see what transpires from there. This is my 14th year camming.. not much other experience doing anything else as a job that would net me a good income except some sort of sales.

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    Quote Originally Posted by minniesoporno View Post
    Camming is great but its time for me to move on to something else.

    I did my semester of college at the same time I found my affiliate marketing program. Getting ready to travel next week for my company convention and I am more excited about building my internet business more then ever.

    So for me it's going to be all about setting up my digital products -ebooks, full online course, and coaching programs. Probably thinking of making a coaching course for sex workers looking to build an online business outside of sex work.

    Stepping into the world of becoming a professional internet marketer and building my network marketing business so many people I am meeting who are making money from the internet and are not getting naked for it.

    Things are definitely scaling up for me.
    I have been looking at your videos in the blog area. Marketing is a HUGE thing that a lot of people in the sex industry do not understand. I train girls to do phone sex work and a lot of them who think you just hit the button and calls come in are often dissapointed. It is not a get rich quick job but it is the BEST job I have ever had.

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    I literally made my 'motivation board' with my family yesterday laying out exactly what I want within the next few years (materialistically speaking) and it is such a help when I feel like camming is kicking my arse I've set the board up to be in direct line of sight and when I start to wane I just glance up and think only 3 more hours let's do this. Must learn some accountability as I tend to slack off if it's slow or I get bored.

    Mostly what I want is a new laptop/professional lighting (goal already met as of this week) for camming, my new car I'm picking up in September, to travel to some lovely places while camming to keep the income flowing and chasing my favourite singer around the world on his tour lol and a quaint little cottage to settle down and marry my boyfriend and make babies in. Also about £50,000 is needed for all this and to have some savings it's a tall order but I'm grinding away to reach these goals like all of us. I'm on track so far and I plan on being a cam girl for many many more years to come yet, I would hate to go back to a job where I was working for someone else *shudders*.
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    I got into camming because of one really big driving force and that's to save enough money, around 50k so I can get back into the fashion industry and manufacturer a bunch of my designs. To be able to have a team of sales representatives so this time I can focus solely on designing. To attend tradeshows and have the right brand exposure. To also work with a reputable PR boutique as well. I am very grateful for camming because unlike the current vanilla job I also work, I am in charge of my income, meaning with hard work and dedication, I can raise my hourly tenfold unlike these .25 an hour a raise I get a year from my vanilla job.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Horny View Post
    Do a lot of us have other plans and should I have one? Does everyone burn out?
    I've been in the adult industry in one form or another for 10 years, and I don't think I'll want to set it aside completely for as long as I have a sex drive.

    My main joys in life are making art, learning new things, and being with my family & friends. Adult jobs have usually left me ample time for these things, whereas vanilla jobs have always wanted all of me, all the time.

    Burnout is a real issue, and important to keep an eye on. I don't think it's inevitable if one takes ample breaks, makes sure to have interests outside of work, and doesn't spend all day every day thinking about work. Taking your attention off work and directing it fully at something else is a crucial key to adult industry longevity. (I believe that involves logging off social media and SW, but that's a whole other issue.)

    I did burn out last summer, at about this time of year, actually, when it grew really slow, and I just ground out more and more hours in freechat instead of trying new approaches. Having come back from that, I feel fairly in control of dos and don'ts of healthy working practices.

    So yeah, not much for long-term plans here, except to save for retirement and keep improving at my job even though it's part-time.


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    Quote Originally Posted by DancesWithSloths View Post

    Burnout is a real issue, and important to keep an eye on. I don't think it's inevitable if one takes ample breaks, makes sure to have interests outside of work, and doesn't spend all day every day thinking about work. Taking your attention off work and directing it fully at something else is a crucial key to adult industry longevity. (I believe that involves logging off social media and SW, but that's a whole other issue.)
    THIS! Whenever I talk to a girl who is in the adult industry I always say " a work week is 5 days" take time off. You would not hire someone and treat them like that why would you do that to yourself.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Natalie Sloan View Post
    I got into camming because of one really big driving force and that's to save enough money, around 50k so I can get back into the fashion industry and manufacturer a bunch of my designs.
    I pray that one of those designs is a jumpsuit that lets You pee without having to take the entire thing off.
    If someone came up with this, I would probably keep them in business by purchasing the entire lot!

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    I don't mean to thread jack but what site do you use to do texting?

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    My long term plan is to pay for my college education with as little debt as possible. I'm in my early 20s and I'm ready to finish my Bachelors. I also want to be able to afford my own place to stay without roommates soon or prepare to move in with my SO. Those are my big future goals. I have smaller goals of saving up for material things I want (a laptop, other electronics, and such), but that's about it for now.

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    My long term plans in this industry:

    *Make 1000 per day as pso.
    *Make 4000 per week selling texting,email, and kik packages.
    *Make 500-1500 every weekend as a part-time non-nude cam model. (I will always do camming part-time)
    *Get 10 sugar daddies at one time.
    *Make 3500 per month as virtual escort in Second Life.
    * Write 30 different erotica novellas each year.
    * Start to create my Magnum Opus as a sex worker at the age 36.
    * Just get married to West African oilman
    * Finish sex work by 39

    Vanilla dreams:

    * Buy a good condo.
    * Start to working as luxury real estate agent/real estate paralegal in 2017.
    * Sell 10 homes per year.
    * Invest in real estate, gold stocks, sliver stocks, wine, and other luxury goods.
    * Write about 15 different sweet romance novellas.
    * work as real estate paralegal under good real estate attorney remotely.
    * Pay off all student loans by my 35th birthday. I am 3/4 the way there.
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    I want to buy a house and decorate it. I want two cats and two dogs in it. I would love to decorate it awesome and have marble bathroom and separate shower in it ( either all white or white and gold or white blue and gold)
    I want to help rescue animals whether is on my own or helping financially.
    I want to buy an apartment or two and rent them out as passive income.
    Don't want relationship just want to be alone with my animals and read and watch tv in the evenings and take baths in marble bathtub.

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    My ultimate goal would be for me to be able to buy my mom a house, the house that she lost some years back. She's worked so hard as a single mom and did her best to raise my siblings and I. She keeps a picture of it on her fridge and it breaks my heart knowing that I can't afford it just yet. My long term goal/plan is just to be successful , to keep fighting , thriving and most importantly a nest egg. I don't want to be 50+ with nothing to show for. I'll be 30 in March and already making small life changes as it's crucial to my future. I hope all you ladies reach your goals and beyond!

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    My goal is to be out of camming this year. I loved it but I think its time for me to work on my goal of having my own small business. Then hopefully get a house.

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    I'd love to get enough money saved to put down a deposit on a house. After that I'd also like to set up my own business (not in the adult industry) but just not sure what that would be yet! Got plenty of time to figure it out though, doubt I'll have enough saved for another 4/5 years minimum!!

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