A "normal" job

[Crazydidi]

im realizing that for a lot of cam girls, mfc is their full time job and for me it has become my only source of income.
Do you guys have other jobs, "normal" jobs? If you dont would you consider going back to one?

My first job was at 18 I started working in massage parlors so I made a lot of money, now I started on mfc and honestly I may sound lazy but I cant see myself working 40-45h shifts for minimum wage...

 

[AshaSnow]

After graduating college with my $45k Marketing degree I worked as a barista making $10/hr. That includes tips. As much as I loved the job, I couldn't go back to it. Camming changed every possibility I was looking at in my life, and I wasn't really digging the idea of working in an office down the line anyway.

 

[ScarlettLeigh]

I used to work in retail selling high end women's wear.

 

[Evvie]

I enjoy many work environments. I especially thrive in high energy environments (behind the scenes working on a film set, for example) or work that I enjoy and I can just sit down and get through (I have before in my life created graphics or built websites for eight or nine hours without a break, and only stopping because I was so exhausted my reading comprehension had fallen to the point where I couldn't understand written words.

I would absolutely love to have a job like that again - that is, a job I am skilled at and love doing. I enjoy camming but it's hard for me to find the structure in it that I need.

I don't really have a problem with authority, co-workers, or anything like that, so I think I would be perfectly happy in a normal job.

However, the one thing I really do like about camming is the huge amounts of flexibility. I think it's quite conducive to my lifestyle .

 

[Rileyster]

I've worked in a grocery store, retail, and a restaurant. I help my bf off and on with his business, and I do have a part time job currently in merchandise and some farming stuff just so I can get out of the house a few times a week for a few hours during the day. It's really convenient because my boss lets me pick which days and times as long as I'm there at least 3 times a week lol.

Once I get my degree, I'll be starting my career, but it's a high possibility I'll keep camming around until a year or 2 after I find a job.

 

[Tristyn]

Let's see: before this I have done retail, food service, point of sales, and reception. I have considered getting a part-time "fun" job just to get out of the house for a few hours a week (and to get an employee discount on something I really like/buy a lot of), but.. it's very hard to see myself working for minimum wage again in general-- too much work, very little gain.

I'm also a full-time student, so it's not like I have much time for another job anyway. My courses are online right now, but starting in September or January that's going to change, so I suppose that will satisfy my must-get-out-of-the-house itch.

I have no idea what I'll do after I finish my degree(s). I might pay off my loans by camming, but eventually I'd like to at least try doing something in my field (psychology / social work) for a while, lol.

 

[Anonymous]

I never did a lot of working, I was always pretty school-focused. Nonetheless, I've had two jobs and I would absolutely die if I had to go back to them.

First one was a rose farm. We had 12 acres of rose bushes. My job was to water them all. And because it was summer in my state, it got up to 118F one day. That was the day I passed out with no warning. I did not come back. Fuck that.

Second one was... Target. Cashier. People are right cunts to retail or any service industry workers. At first I was really worried about being rude to the customer or whatever, that they'd tell my manager... And once, a fucking bitch DID. Because I didn't say, "Hi how are you" to her. I mean, we had pleasant conversation during the whole process, but she fucking told my manager that I didn't greet her properly. REALLY? REEEEEEEEALLY? Is my half-ass'd hello really that detrimental to your day? If it is, you need to do some prioritizing.
So after that stupid incident happened, I stopped caring. Make mean jokes to the customers' faces. I did however love the hipsters with senses of humor. I would ask them "so what's the deal, did daddy not love you enough?" and most of the time I got funny, light-hearted responses. This one fuckin' couple got all butthurt. The girl, "No.. how about, we're adults and this is who we are.." Yeah okay. That's the grown up version of "IT'S NOT A PHASE MOM THIS IS ME OKAY /cry".

... It just occurred to me that I come off as a tad bitter.
I am.

 

[Diana Blake]

I'm actually an LPN. I decided to go back to school for my PharmD after I realized that there are only two types of nurses that last longer than a year. The ones that care so much they don't have time for anything else and the ones that become completely desensitized. One night I had a patient die, she was DNR so there was nothing I could do. I was feeling terrible about it because I'd just been talking to her family 9hrs before when my shift started and before I could say or do anything my CN goes "Well, I guess she won't be hitting her fucking call button every fifteen fucking minutes now, will she?"

WTF, bitch? I quit and while I haven't met the nursing staff at the hospitals here...I really don't think I'd go back to it unless I really had to.

 

[Crazydidi]

Let's see: before this I have done retail, food service, point of sales, and reception. I have considered getting a part-time "fun" job just to get out of the house for a few hours a week (and to get an employee discount on something I really like/buy a lot of), but.. it's very hard to see myself working for minimum wage again in general-- too much work, very little gain.

I'm also a full-time student, so it's not like I have much time for another job anyway. My courses are online right now, but starting in September or January that's going to change, so I suppose that will satisfy my must-get-out-of-the-house itch.

I have no idea what I'll do after I finish my degree(s). I might pay off my loans by camming, but eventually I'd like to at least try doing something in my field (psychology / social work) for a while, lol.

exactly what I want to do to, im starting school in September also so like you said I wont really have time for a normal full time job anyways so caming is perfect for me. 4 days of school and cam time on week ends.

 

[Crazydidi]

I'm actually an LPN. I decided to go back to school for my PharmD after I realized that there are only two types of nurses that last longer than a year. The ones that care so much they don't have time for anything else and the ones that become completely desensitized. One night I had a patient die, she was DNR so there was nothing I could do. I was feeling terrible about it because I'd just been talking to her family 9hrs before when my shift started and before I could say or do anything my CN goes "Well, I guess she won't be hitting her fucking call button every fifteen fucking minutes now, will she?"

WTF, bitch? I quit and while I haven't met the nursing staff at the hospitals here...I really don't think I'd go back to it unless I really had to.

aouch... i cant understand how some people can be so cold. I couldn't do it eight er.

 

[LilyMarie]

After graduating from high school, I had 3 jobs besides camming. Those were all just little things so that I could make some money before going to university.

At the age of 19, I wanted to become a screenwriter. So I did an internship in the props department of a TV series production for 2 months in order to get to know some stuff about the industry. Made 500 € per month, worked 8-10 hours per day. lol.
At least now I know what I don't want to be when I grow up: a prop master

Then in the summer of 2010, I worked at a company that packaged CDs and DVDs and distributed them among media stores. Suuuper lame job, but I met someone important there so it's all good :3

In the spring/summer of 2011, I worked at a call center that does surveys. I made money per completed interview, not per hour, which was very frustrating even though I was pretty successful. I could never make more than 12 € per hour, and that was already more than most made.

In August '11, I started camming. For fun, in the first place, I would have N E V E R assumed I would make actual money with it :shock: But then I did, and I made way, way more than I had made everywhere else, so it seemed ridiculous to keep going to the call center. So I quit there in September.

 

[Paulie Walnuts]

I was feeling terrible about it because I'd just been talking to her family 9hrs before when my shift started and before I could say or do anything my CN goes "Well, I guess she won't be hitting her fucking call button every fifteen fucking minutes now, will she?"

WTF, bitch? I quit and while I haven't met the nursing staff at the hospitals here...I really don't think I'd go back to it unless I really had to.

I worked in the office of a slaughterhouse for a while, the idea of the whole operation really bothered me but the operation was top notch and the owners made sure it was as clean and untraumatic for the livestock as possible.... a very rare thing in that industry.

However, the thing that made me quit wasnt the business, it was the people and how I saw it change them from crying on their first few days to smiling and enjoying the job. They would become desensitized to it so fast, and so completely after a short while they would be cracking jokes about a botched kill or a crippled animal in the line. It made my guts cramp to see someone who a week before was bawling their eyes out in the bathroom to turn into.... that.
I had grave concerns about how that translated to life outside the plant for these people. It had contaminate their interpersonal relationships.

Needless to say... I'm a fair weather vegetarian. If I'm hungry I'll eat the meat, if I'm sure of where it came from I'll eat it, but left to my own daily eating habits (restaurants) I pretty much avoid anything that had a pulse before it hit my plate, I can imagine where it came from. I do eat meat/sausage/bacon but my personal supply is from people I know and livestock I've seen happy & healthy. Or, it's wild game.... you can't get any more free and happy than that.

I just bought a pair of goats the other day ( I hate my property where I have to groom/mow/bushwhack it) and the guy who delivered them was a nice guy, I said "well its good you delivered them so you can see they will have a nice life and I wont eat em" (he sold them as pet goats, they are child tame and tie trained... like big needy puppies) he said, in front of this little tiny girl petting the goats "hey eat em if you like, they are just goats"
The little girl looked horrified. He thought it was funny when she got all teary eyed.

I showed the kid all the property they were gonna live on with other critters and she cheered up.

This is what happens to people, they lose all empathy for the livestock and even their own kids.

Be cautious of what line of work you get into. It'll kill your soul.

 

[Crazydidi]

I was feeling terrible about it because I'd just been talking to her family 9hrs before when my shift started and before I could say or do anything my CN goes "Well, I guess she won't be hitting her fucking call button every fifteen fucking minutes now, will she?"

WTF, bitch? I quit and while I haven't met the nursing staff at the hospitals here...I really don't think I'd go back to it unless I really had to.

I worked in the office of a slaughterhouse for a while, the idea of the whole operation really bothered me but the operation was top notch and the owners made sure it was as clean and untraumatic for the livestock as possible.... a very rare thing in that industry.

However, the thing that made me quit wasnt the business, it was the people and how I saw it change them from crying on their first few days to smiling and enjoying the job. They would become desensitized to it so fast, and so completely after a short while they would be cracking jokes about a botched kill or a crippled animal in the line. It made my guts cramp to see someone who a week before was bawling their eyes out in the bathroom to turn into.... that.
I had grave concerns about how that translated to life outside the plant for these people. It had contaminate their interpersonal relationships.

Needless to say... I'm a fair weather vegetarian. If I'm hungry I'll eat the meat, if I'm sure of where it came from I'll eat it, but left to my own daily eating habits (restaurants) I pretty much avoid anything that had a pulse before it hit my plate, I can imagine where it came from. I do eat meat/sausage/bacon but my personal supply is from people I know and livestock I've seen happy & healthy. Or, it's wild game.... you can't get any more free and happy than that.

I just bought a pair of goats the other day ( I hate my property where I have to groom/mow/bushwhack it) and the guy who delivered them was a nice guy, I said "well its good you delivered them so you can see they will have a nice life and I wont eat em" (he sold them as pet goats, they are child tame and tie trained... like big needy puppies) he said, in front of this little tiny girl petting the goats "hey eat em if you like, they are just goats"
The little girl looked horrified. He thought it was funny when she got all teary eyed.

I showed the kid all the property they were gonna live on with other critters and she cheered up.

This is what happens to people, they lose all empathy for the livestock and even their own kids.

Be cautious of what line of work you get into. It'll kill your soul.

i was in a totally different line of work but I can agree with that last phrase, I had to quit my last job because it was making me sick, sick and depressed. I started to get really pissed at people for acting the way they do. So I knew I had to quit, but anyways thats a totally different story!

 

[PlayboyMegan]

After being a personal assistant to a celebrity, I will NEVER work for anyone again. I will ALWAYS be my own boss. Fuck that.

 

[Crazydidi]

After being a personal assistant to a celebrity, I will NEVER work for anyone again. I will ALWAYS be my own boss. Fuck that.

I think we all can agree on that one

 

[LovinLeanne]

I run a women,s lingerie/ adult novelty store. would NEVER give that up ...But I also make at least a full time minimum wage amount on the side with caming a lil bit

 

[Crazydidi]

I run a women,s lingerie/ adult novelty store. would NEVER give that up ...But I also make at least a full time minimum wage amount on the side with caming a lil bit

oh i like that!

 

[Countessa]

My partner and I run a small architecture practice together. So I work from home and just cam when I feel like it and draft when I feel like that. It's nice having variety!

 

[LadyLuna]

My first job was cleaning fish tanks in my brother's pet store at 16, until just before my 21st birthday. I gradually gained other tasks (mostly caring for animals or dealing with merchandise), but only learned the cash register in the last month of it under my Mom, cause my brother didn't trust me.

My next job was a cashier at Target, between my 21st birthday and the start of the school year. I was too nice, and so always ended up taking too much time on each customer. And of course, no one ever gives good reviews. So I left feeling like I wasn't fit to be a cashier.

I then worked as an at-risk tutor for a couple weeks, after I graduated and before the end of the public school year. Followed by four weeks as a summer camp counselor at a day-camp for brownies, with the oldest age-group. Followed by a month or two as a waitress in a 4-star steakhouse that ended when I was told that being a waitress just wasn't for me. (I think it's because I'm not good at memorization and know shit-all about alcohol.)

Then I found work as a clerk at a gas station. In that town, it was actually kinda fun. Most of the customers were understanding. The only real problem I had was that the assistant-manager scared the shit out of me, but I rarely had to work with her. I added being a long-term substitute and at-risk tutor onto that, until June the year after I graduated.

Then I moved. I found another job as a clerk at a gas station, and worked that for a year and half before the recession took it. The customers at this one were not as understanding. They all seemed to think they knew my duties better than I did. My manager was pleased with me however. I started to feel my mind going to pieces over the level of idiocy I was exposed to on a daily basis during the winter, but that cleared up by the summer, before I lost it.

I worked for a month or so at Burger King, but was never given enough hours or the training I needed. The other employees didn't like me, and didn't care that I'd get in trouble if they weren't doing things properly, so I felt no problems in explaining that I couldn't very well know they were out of burgers if they never put the empty ones down, and with them grabbing burgers from all the bins, they'd run out of all of them at once and I couldn't possibly keep up with that.

I found MFC, and never looked back.

The only thing I could see me doing is accounting. But maybe not. I'm not altogether sure about that.

 

[LiciousLily]

I'm a part time make-up artist/intern for Christian Dior at the moment. I only have a cosmetology license. It is a really fun job and it helps break down a little bit of my tax liability.

I also just dropped out of college. My degree was in computer engineering, but I sucked at it. Hah! My passion is in entertainment and beauty. I'm moving to NY or LA next year (I am trying to do it with OPM- Other People's Money--aka, suck up to the higher account executives, hehehe).

Anyway, I always want to live a more non-traditional lifestyle. I want to bounce around to potential entertainment gigs, perhaps dabble in some porn (or vanilla commercials ). . . and doing make-up and hair. The good thing about relocating to a big city is the networking you can do there is unreal! But I have a very big feeling I am always going to supplement by lifestyle by working in the adult industry. At least when I am in my 20's.

 

[GoddessAiren]

I dropped out of high school to go to hair school and I worked in salons for about 6 years. Porn pays better and there's no ban button in real life.

 

[KellyShea]

I work as a real estate research assistant and I am a full time college student. I also race rally cars. Camming is just a part of my daily routine and I love it

 

[BombChele]

When I started camming I had another job, one I really hated and it stressed me out. I quit that job after a while and focused only on camming. At first it worked out, but then me just working from home and relying soley on how much I made camming was becoming too stressful, too.

So right now I'm trying to find a job outside the home that fits into what I really want to do, and still cam without it being the only source of income. That was I'm not too stressed and my camming will improve!

 

[VeronicaChaos]

I'll never have a normal job. I don't do normal. I can't do normal. I just plain hate normal.

I won't cam forever, but I will always be hustling for myself, by myself.

 

[NicoleRiley]

I was working 2 jobs 7 days a week before I started camming. A few weeks into camming I quit my waitressing job. I'm still a manager at my Monday-Friday job, but I have given notice and have asked for them to find someone else for September.

I don't know if I'll ever want to go back to a "normal" job. I love deciding how much or little I would like to work.

 

[SimplySara]

I was in Radio Broadcasting!! It was alot of fun! I didnt even go to school for it and near the end I was able to fill in for virtually anybody in the whole station sometimes working 16 days straight. As soon as a full time position came up I applied for it but didnt get the position because I was "too valuable" as part time.. So i said fuck you all and quit. A couple months later I came across Myfreecams And the rest is history haha.

 

[SatanJonez]

I'll never have a normal job. I don't do normal. I can't do normal. I just plain hate normal.

I won't cam forever, but I will always be hustling for myself, by myself.

This. I've had one normal job and got myself fired (looking back I knew what I was doing so meh).

 

[nancy_raygun]

Sometimes I sell my artwork...sometimes...

I'm hoping to turn selling my art/commissions into more of an actual job soon. If I can start following the anime kids around from convention to convention, I could make it an actual job. Until then, I stick with camming. I love it though. I think I will do camming until... I just can't.

 

[KoryMinx]

I don't think I could EVER go back to retail. EVER EVER EVER!

 

[Sarah Sparxxx]

Right now this is my full time job, I'm working my way through College so I need a flexible schedule. There are nights it's frustrating on MFC but I've been fortunate enough to never have a night logging out with no tips...sometimes only 20 tokens for the entire night but it's something :thumbleft: I've been a cam girl for about 2 months so I'm not expecting miracle money right away. Any suggestions from other models are always appreciated.

im realizing that for a lot of cam girls, mfc is their full time job and for me it has become my only source of income.
Do you guys have other jobs, "normal" jobs? If you dont would you consider going back to one?

My first job was at 18 I started working in massage parlors so I made a lot of money, now I started on mfc and honestly I may sound lazy but I cant see myself working 40-45h shifts for minimum wage...