Business Thread: Who actually does online to support themselves and their family?
 

Who here works online (adult or other) to support themselves financially, without following another line of "real world" work?

If you quit your real world job for your online biz, when did you feel comfortable making the switch?

Let's hear it. :thumbsup

Uh, of course. I started out of college, so I never had a "real world" to quit.

Fulltime here ;)

yep...always have

I am and have been full online for a long ass time.
I do however have offline income investments now though, rentals and the like. My fiance has also started an offline business, though all of its income is left in the business itself.

I have not had a real offline job that I ever had to quit. For awhile I had opened up and ran a hobby shop, other than that not much of anything. Some minor jobs as a teen doing assorted things cause I was bored.

Used to be almost full online but several bad decisions and a 'shift in the winds' later I'm around half/half now.

Fulltime since '99.


And a job + online for nearly 2 years before that.

who else would hire me...?

Would hope most are doing this full time and making a biz of it - tho ya sometimes wonder :) (Else they are just clogging the place up)

Been online since 95-96 and decades in adult before that time.

What may be a given to you, probably isn't the same for others.

For me, it's the same thing. I am on the verge to finishing graduate school, but because my online business is keeping me on my toes and I know that I won't actually need the degree to begin with, I am really struggling to actually get my shit together and finish the degree.

Obviously, having a stable 9-5 has its perks, but the independence from being self-employed is a freedom that entirely priceless.

I just have to look at my parents, who, at 64 and 55, are totally worn down and still bitch and bicker about their work environment, day in, day out. Don't want to be there, ever.

:upsidedow

I am sure that you have plenty of strong qualifications that would make you a valuable asset to many companies. Hypothetically, of course. :winkwink:

Hypothetically, don't doubt the Shemp would be a valuable asset :winkwink:

I could, but I also have a 28 hour/week job that keeps me busy 4 days a week. I repair pc's, build them etc. It's nice though, I can work on my online work while I do that also so it isn't too bad.

We have had massive layoffs in the automotive engineering/design car biz here in the Detroit area. So for me it wasn't a matter of choice.
It's a whole new world now, you can forget about your lifetime employment and fat pension working for corporations. Our jobs have been shipped out of country to the lowest bidder.
Been employed online for the last 3 1/2 yrs. as my only income. I don't think I could go back to the cubicle farm if the opportunity presented itself.

Let me rephrase that:

Shemp is a valuable asset, regardless whether he'd be looking for a job or not. :error

I'm self-supported.
WG

Whatever, you're Gbot's bitch and we all know it.:upsidedow

fulltime almost 5 yrs now

I voted aye, though I also have a brick-and-mortar mortgage business, among other ventures in environmental and importing, so it wasn't entirely honest.

Googlebot's my bitch and don't forget that!
WG

Summer of 2001
Was getting severely harassed at work and I had been working on the side in adult for a month and made just under $200. So I figured its a start and there must be more, and I quit my job. Couldnt handle being talked down to anymore by some cunt-face who probably masturbates feverishly in his off work hours and picks on me for fun.

Full time!

Lots of work with the program and making good money promoting it to!
Adult Innovators.com

Aye

Of course, some dickhead has to come in an spoil a perfectly good thread by plugging his fucking ref codes. Get lost. :321GFY

I make my money in this business but I don't rely soley online to get clients, and prospects. I actually market like a brick and morter company.

Aye. I make enough to support quite a few families ...

Online 100%. I would never-ever work in the "real" world. I only regret I discovered it only 2 yrs ago.

thats top secret ;)

100% of my income comes from online and always has since the beginning of 99.

full-time since the beginning.

Nice, keep them coming. I'm quite surprised that there isn't more part-timers here.