How many of you have day jobs?

What kind of jobs were you doing? Must be hard to go from working for yourself to a 9-5.

Whatever they let me do: grinded cast iron, assembled Nissans, bartended, baked bread, etc. It’s all fucking shit, beats me how people do that as a career :/

Since 1999 porn is my only job, no other income source. Lately I've been looking into different volunteering opportunities to replace my time on GFY. The only negativity in my life I experience is on GFY so I'm looking to replenish that with something more my style, giving back & nourishing others. I somewhat naively thought that posting facts, current happenings & answering tech/knowledge threads on GFY was giving back to the community but I was mistaken; GFY has become a black hole.

What do you do in porn?

Did you look at my profile before asking?

I just quit a very popular auto plant. Top rate 35 (cad) assembling cars. Couldn't handle it anymore with my business working. Can't believe I quit to be honest that was a second home to me! (10 hr shifts at times)

Now I have. Must be hard to make a living as a content producer these days with all the tubes around...

I've worked odd jobs from time to time but I've almost always either 100% worked for myself or worked as a independent contractor for another company on a per-job or performance basis only. I simply can not do the "work by the hour, work your way up grind"..

The longest single job I ever worked as a employee was 3 years. The only reason I kept that job that long was because it was a 3x12hr work week. I worked 3 days a week had 4 days off and have 5 weeks worth off time off each of those 3 years.

When I was traveling, I didn't like eating up my savings so I'd often pick up random temp jobs and worked at some pretty cool places but I was always able to pick my job vs needing one so that made it a bit nicer.

As far as working for myself, I've done a lot of different things.. Starting in high school I started a lawn service that I bought my 1st home with at the age of 21. I had a floor cleaning company.. I had a used car dealership. Did adult & mainstream affiliate sites. Dabbed with webdesign, even went to school for 3d animation at one point. I have a ebay/Amazon business that I run now and I've driven tractor trailers..

I couldn't imagine doing the same thing everyday for a entire career.. I have no clue how people do it..

Nice sig

You’ve been doing retail arbitrage as well, right? How’s that working out for you?

Quit my last real job November of 1998 and have worked for myself since. I took a couple years off from this business around 2010 and made money buying storage units and selling the stuff in them but hurt myself (no too mention it is back breaking work) and decided to come back. I still had all my domains etc.

Over time I have built free sites, galleries, AVS etc. These days I do a lot of writing for different companies and have a few projects myself that I am working on that are starting to pick up some steam.

I re-edited my post a bit, I hit post too early.. Amazon is fucking awesome if you can source the right products. I don't necessarily do retail arbitrage because that usually revolves around buying new products & selling new if you go by what most people consider it..

My problem with selling new stuff is Amazon has a lot of fees and the profit margin is really tight on most things. I prefer to buy used items and flip those because the profits are much bigger and I don't have to tie up as much money in product.

Amazon is insane if you manage to get the buy box for new product but it's a lot of competition and even if you find a honeypot someone else will find it too.

Overall though I tend to stick to ebay even though it has it's issues. I sell a lot of used clothing on ebay. I don't really like ebay or clothing in general but my average buy price on a item is $5 and my average sell price is $25 and I charge shipping so the profit is much better than most items on Amazon. It's also very easy to source high quality clothing if you live in the right area.

I don't solely focus on clothing but it's the bulk of my inventory.


As for more recent stuff I haven't started yet, but I'm looking at doing youtube vids. If you pick the right niches for informational videos you can end up with a endless amount of people looking up those vids and you don't need a ton of videos. It's kinda like a gallery getting a good SE listing..

I have been working full time in porn since 2000.

Outside of porn, my wife and I run a bricks and mortar business, and I have a second small business that is part time. I also just invested money into a pizza restaurant and will be one of the owners.

What are you doing in porn these days? Affiliate shit or something else? I've looked to get back in from time to time, but quite honestly in today's era there is no trust for me in affiliate programs. It seems you are just waiting to get screwed these days.

Back in the day affiliates had power by numbers, if a program was outted doing shitty stuff everyone dropped them, but seems today they can get away with anything.