A couple weeks. I'd thought about stripping for a looong time, but I knew I had too much social anxiety for it. At some point I became aware of camming, and then at some point later I got sick of my job and decided I wanted to be a cam girl. I'd never had anything against sex workers, I wasn't/ am not planning on getting a job sex work would affect, and I was at a point where I could be reasonably responsible about it in regards to finances and safety. Basically I quit my shit vanilla job, researched camming for a couple weeks, and then got online.