i wait for the day that my mum is smart enough to put my company name in google (damn 2257 :disgust ) - until then she thinks i do something "with internet". :winkwink:

i think its a bit different if you sit in front of a computer selling porn or run a production company with "real" people getting fucked. same problem applies to potential girlfriends

Mainstream

I'm also afraid because I'm such a bad liar! I get afraid when I'm bending the truth, I don't feel confident. I feel like they can see through me and tell that I'm not being honest, plus my voice gets shaky when people are being really persistent.

How do I bend the truth while being comfortable and not shaky? I'm a bad liar.

LOL baddog I use this exact approach all the time. never fails :thumbsup:1orglaugh

I make sex with computers

online marketing.

herbals

That is a perfect mix right there. You can talk about adsense and things like that too.

it depends who I am talking to, my bank thinks I sell stuff off ebay. each time I go in there I laugh especially when I see others in there with checks from ccbill or verotel.

my family all know what I do they wish I would stop, but it's not up to them. and depending on where I am and how I feel I straight out and tell them I work in porn. otherwise I say customer service stuff.

I thought about doing that, but then I thought about how it might draw some unwanted attention which would weigh more than the coolness factor.

i tell them i am a web developer and that i do search engine marketing, which i do, and they say for what? and i say for anything.
then i make a joke that i work for some adult companies right now cuz theres lots of money there. they laugh.

people are not as scared of us as you may think. matter of fact, many of us are far less dangerous to society than many of the teachers, cops, school bus drivers, and counselors that i've seen get rolled up on to catch a predator.

:2 cents:

aint that the sad truth brother.

yep, they even caught a rabbi on one of the shows. when i start off a relationship with anyone now i tell them what i do and i fell so much better and free and happy around them because i know they accept me. the vast majority of them don't give a shit and they ask me questions all the time because they are fascinated by Internet porn. there's such a stigma, and to "know" someone who is on the inside of it is interesting to them. this week i met a celebrity, a female from a very very popular blockbuster movie about a year ago, maybe a year and a half, and i told her point blank what i do, and she goes "oh cool." and proceeded to ask me intuitive questions that you wouldn't think people would ask that aren't familiar with our biz. i am still talking to her, if she cared, she would have killed me off right there being that she is hot as sin and she has tons and tons of friends and guys around her. i'm telling you, people just don't care like they think they do.

now, let me throw this disclaimer out there. if i ended up hooking up with a girl and had to tell her parents what i do, i'm taking baddogs approach all the way to the bank because i can rattle that shit off until you get a headache, no problem.

LOLLL.

How do you see what checks they have. Are they just standing in front oif you and not covering their checks? Personally if I HAD to go inside the bank I always turn my checks upside down, not cause I'm embarrassed but because I get angry when people look at my stuff, I don't like anyone looking at my stuff.

Yea they flash them around in line, I have a good eye I know most of the adult site check logos from a mile away. I keep my cheques in my purse til the moment I get up to the teller.

One time a guy was in line and dropped a 50 and he swore he had it, til someone ahead of him told it was on the floor. or even when I am in line and the people in front are at the cash and the cashier gives them the wrong change.

maybe it has something to do with working in a strip club for a while of being on edge of counting my money fast and knowing exactly where every bill is.

and it only works with canadian bills.

Adult content, and mainstream photography

What niches in mainstream? I don't know where to start. I only know porn. I'm a very bad liar because I get nervous easily, just in general, I just have a nervous/anxious personality and when I'm lying it's even worse.

Even my dad knows what's up, you would think an old man 65 years old would know nothing about the internet but he's always on it and also very internet savvy and knows everything, very hard to bullshit. I tried to bullshit but I know he knows I'm bullshitting. He even asked me if I "spam" like do spam email.. I was like "ummm no, that's illegal. there's a diff between opt-in and spam and the government has new strict regulations concerning that etc"

I don't think my dad would care tho, he's very liberal. He lives in amsterdam, and now that he's visiting me in the U.S he's asking me if there's porn on my tv, if i get porn channels, cause apparently they used to get adult channels and holland for free and he's telling me how they show everything in holland on tv and he told me how he went to a strip club when he was 18 and in college here in the U.S lol so he's not uptight. I still feel like I have to lie though cause I don't feel that comfortable.

I actually feel kind of uncomfortable with my dad being too open and liberal, it's kind of scary! too much information!!

Webmaster/clerk at library.

Well.....most of our friends have seen me getting fucked in the ass on the internet or on dvd....so not much to explain there.....however, my parents have never found out, actually none of my family knows.....however, i'm sure they will at some point....that oughta be an interesting even! LOL!

tia

I usually just say I slang porn but it really does matter whos asking. Most people smile when they hear that its PORN. LOL

My mom knows, for the rest of the family and friends, I own an export company (that is true as well).

Me too. Web design / Graphic design....but thats really what I do....lol

Me too. Web design / Graphic design....but thats really what I do.

"International Audiotex Facilitator":1orglaugh

There's a lot of thought and practice into bsing people in here...

I tell people I run adult oriented businesses and websites... They laugh, I laugh, they buy my drinks...

sell traffic....but really that is what I do, adult or not I dont care

Mechanial Engineering - electics and lpg.

"I am a web consultant and programmer."

"OH COOL, what sites do you work on."

"None of my own (lie), I freelance my work to various companies."

then if they are genuinely interested I will explain about my recent SEM client, and I may casually mention that I've worked on adult sites. This usually leads to more questions about my family and friends :P