Transferable Skills

[Darthcan]

So a general question for all the ladies and men with decent experience in a camgirl/guy role (1 year+ ? please specify your experience level if comfortable).

What skills that you either (1) had prior to cam work but used it to your advantage or (2) learning on the job offer the most portability and value transfer to completely different jobs/industries? I realize the breadth of responses will be wide but I think its an interesting topic of discussion.

Cheers!

 

[MsSpectre]

I'm just starting out on my clip store, but I am definitely finding that the last two years I spent making clips of me and my friends' online gaming antics has put me ahead of the curve when it comes to making polished clips.

I tried MFC for a couple days recently and didn't care for it, but I spent a lot of time customizing the profile. Once I figured out how the templates worked, I had enough accumulated HTML/CSS skills to get it in line with the rest of my social media theming. A few guys even complimented me on it a few times as well, though for the writing, not the code. I've done a lot of casual writing over the years too so there's that.

 

[Kinky_Casey]

I have a lot of experience in graphic design and doing HTML/CSS which helped immensely. I do all my graphics and layout shit, from creating my own list of videos with tip buttons to making ads for 25% off sales.

I have a lot of experience in kink, so I came to MFC with toys, sexy pictures, and hot stories from all my kinky exploits.

Things I gained from camming....promoting/marketing/advertising. I'm still learning that but it's invaluable to learn how to promote yourself, whether it's your naked body or your vanilla career.

 

[EmiliaSong]

Acting! I do a lot of role plays, so my background in theater, especially improv, helps. I took a year off from camming to do door-to-door fundraising, and that definitely helped me with raising my rates and standing by them.

As for what I've learned, I've taught myself quite a bit about graphic design cause I'm obsessive about making my bios pretty. Super basic film skills and modeling, too. I've also become a lot more interested in sexology, do we'll see where that takes me.

 

[Ann_Sulu]

doing HTML/CSS which helped immensely

Ugh I wish I got on coding before camming. I stumbled through HTML and CSS for quite a bit.

Being excessively organised helps.

Spreadsheets...learn how to use them if you don't know already. Thankfully as a daughter of an engineer this was already second nature for me. I use them for everything. Amounts I've earned, clip categories, what my highest earning shows are, amount of time I'm on cam every day, taxes. Pretty much you name it, and I likely have a spreadsheet for it.

I've had friends who've worked in sex shops. They helped me learn what things to/not to use.

Two jobs before camming had me in advertising, so that helped me figure out things in regards to how to properly do sales and such.

I took up way too many languages growing up, and they've been useful whether for explaining things to folks who don't know English (when I happen to know their language of course). I've been asked quite a few times to speak to members in their native tongue in paid chat as well, so that definitely helps.

 

[HiGirlsRHot]

I posted this a couple of years ago about transferable skills, I think it is still applicable today.

If I was camgirl, my resume for the job would look something like this. The stuff in brackets is just an explanation.

Self-Employed Internet contractor.

• Designed and executed marketing campaigns to drive paying customers to my storefront on an international web-based sales-of-services platform. [I’d call a camsite an ebay of services]
• Increased monthly sales by X% in N months [your beginning camming income compared to your peak income.]
• Top 1% in sales for Y months on website [If you made top 250 you are in the top 1% of MFC sales]
• Made extensive use of social networks, including twitter, instagram, tumblr [whatever you used] to reach new customers and drive traffic. Reached a peak of X,000 twitter followers [or whatever your most impressive social network stat is].
• Customized my storefront using HTML and CSS [If applicable] including creating graphics.... [add a blurb about whatever art or multimedia].
• Developed promotions, customer acquisitions and retention programs [raffles, games, and clubs respectfully].
• Provided email and chat-based customer support.
• Designed, executed, and sold X number of premium support service on both web and mobile platforms (friendslist, snapchat, KIK etc.)

There are actually a lot of valuable business skills you pick up camming and I'd definitely highlight them on a resume. People do get fired for lying on a resume and this is 100% truthful, if deliberately vague as to what you sell at your storefront.

Now what you say at interview is up to you, but the purpose of the resume is to get an interview.