What did you do before this biz?
 

I wrote about video games and tech as a journalist, still do some stuff on occasion.

I also spent 7 years in a band, suffered through 3 major label record deals, and toured, recorded, and marketed myself to death--or at least the point where I wanted to try something where I didn't want to heavily rely on other people in a day to day sense.

You think models are tough to deal with? Try musicians.

Sponsors are evasive? Try getting paid by a record label.

Still though, I do miss travelling... I think I need to hit the road on a content shooting spree across the country.

I'm still in school (Univerisity). The biz thing is just because I enjoy doing it, and it makes me some beer money :D

wandered the woods!

Human Resources...I fired and hired people for a large corporation! :Graucho

home video 7 years, local wireless internet provider

that's pretty cool actually. i'm sure you're grateful for the experience. most bands suffer through zero record contracts and zero tours :winkwink: what band was this?

programmer...still doing it :thumbsup

Ahhh.. Human Resources.

I remember working at a large dot-com and getting called in to HR one day...

I was told I was doing my work too effectively and my co-workers thought I wasn't part of the team because I didn't live at the office. They stayed until 8pm normally and I was a senior position and out the door between 5 and 5:30pm.

Never mind that they goofed off all day and had no place to go at night... meanwhile, I had a girlfriend and a life to go home to.

That was my motivation to make "to do" lists and tackle my work ASAP each morning. I got most of it done before noon on an average day...

Meanwhile, they would play LAN games and bullshit, then complain that they were swamped with work all the time...

Once I learned to look busy and start complaining all the time, no one said anything...

Granted, our division got shut down 2 months later, right after I returned from a $5k vacation to Disneyworld.

We had a huge post like this before.

My funniest gig was managing a zipper manufacturing plant in downtown LA. We produced 200,000 zippers per week for mostly dress manufacturers.

About 50 workers in the plant. All wetbacks. It was quite an experience. And every zipper had to be tested for quality assurance. Which meant the girls had to open and close each one by hand.

I loved the sounds all the machinery made continuously. Making zippers is a pretty cool process when you watch it start to finish.

God, I sound like such a nerd on this post. YIPES! Exit stage left.....

My band was never famous, not even obscure in any cool way.

We got a lot of MP3 hype and earned a spot on one national television show sharing a stage with Eminem, Dr. Dre, and 98 Degrees. It was the first episode and the show got canned within a year, but a few million saw it...

In fact, our record deals were proof that a record deal is no guarantee of any success. In fact, we never even got to cut a major label album in between dealing with all the bs.

All the releases were self-funded at the time and a major struggle--same with touring.

There were many cool aspects and great life experiences.

The most applicable thing I learned is that the music business is 90% business. I treated it as such and did okay, probably better than most.

I took the same approach to this adult website thing. Like bands, a lot of sites are interchangeable, the key is the marketing and your biz approach.

AFKF was that show called Farmclub?

yep...

aflex wins this mornings Hercule Poirot award.

worked at a grocery store until I got fired for something I didnt do. Still in college.

My time at a dot-com prepared me for a lot of this...

I used to surf porn and shop online when I was done with my work and trying to look busy.

Searched for a will to live.

Then I found porn... :)

I owned a sex shop

Scale's for around 35 years, still do a little Scale work for 1 Truck Scale Mfg. in California. Some process control software, do online maint, sell some of it every once in awhile

Telephone psychic

Harrr!:1orglaugh :1orglaugh

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:Graucho