You all should remember the "Ask An Escort" thread from a while ago, and we hoped that it would be a first in a series of threads that shed some light on somewhat atypical career paths. If you haven't read it, please do yourself the benefit of heading over to the All Star forum and doing so. (HERE) Along those same lines, a new member has joined us here at the TiB who also has the somewhat less than average job of Cam Girl. That's right, she runs a web cam out of her house, and puts on shows over the Internet. Her name is AmberS9109, and she's quite happily and eagerly agreed to opening herself up (no pun intended) to your questions. I will say that I recently ran across the site she works on (oh, those lovely 3am-and-bored internet trips), and was immediately captivated by what I saw. Not so much with the naked chicks and stuff, but with the raw people-watching experience. The level of fucked-up-ed-ness on that site, from both the cam models, and the "people" in their chat rooms, was mind boggling, and like any good train wreck, I could not look away. The models seem to run the gamut from the very well-adjusted and making shit-loads of cash, to the meth-addicted single mother shoving a gourd up her ass for the equivalent of a $0.25 tip. Parts of it were incredibly entertaining, some parts of it were incredibly unsettling, and some parts made me throw up a bit in my mouth. All in all I thought it was one of the best reality shows featuring the human animal I've ever seen. And with that, feel free to ask Amber anything you like.
Hello all! I can't wait to hear from you. As Nettdata said, I'm open to any questions you have. I don't get easily offended, but you can challenge that if you'd like. Anyway, on with the questions. This should be fun!
Alright I'll be the first to ask some questions. 1. How did you get into this whole thing? 2. Whats the strangest thing anyone has ever asked you to do?
Thanks for the questions! Well, I was surfing porn one day. Yes, I'm one of "those" girls. I came across a cam site, and thought it looked sufficiently interesting. I started chatting with some of the girls, and they said it's legit and that they get paid well. Two weeks later I went out and bought a webcam, with my boyfriend's permission, of course. The strangest thing someone has asked me to do is penis humiliation. I was taken to a private show for about 10 minutes, just to laugh at his penis while he was on webcam, calling it small, etc. It was good money but I felt pretty awkward, to be honest.
Hi Amber! So how much do girls actually make doing this? What's the range? What do you make (if you don't mind saying)? Who would make more money: a super hot girl who didn't do anything weird, or a somewhat hot girl who would do aaanything? (Also, was Nettdata the penis humiliation guy? I mean, he does have a race car...)
Amber, do you have any plans for the future, career-wise? It's not like you can put this on a resume or make a run in city politics. How long do you plan on doing this? Wouldn't it get boring after awhile? Thanks for doing this, this thread ought to make for an entertaining weekend.
It depends completely on their performance. For example, if a girl would sit there, completely clothed, showing no skin at all, I'd assume she would make little to nothing. Depending, of course, on if someone tips her purely for good conversation. There is a minimum payout of $25, but there is no maximum payout. I've met girls on the site who make $8k per night. I'm not going to give you an exact quote on my payments. I'll just say that I make enough to get my bills paid, and a little extra money for myself, which is what I'm mainly looking to do. To be honest, probably a somewhat hot girl who would do ANYTHING. I've seen mediocre looking girls who make thousands of dollars because they use hammers as dildos, and I've even seen a model stick a dildo to a Chucky doll (Chucky from the Child's Play movies) and have sex with it... Haha, he isn't that lucky.
I'll honestly say that I'm definitely going to be doing this for a long time. Not until I'm like 50 or anything, but for a good length of time. I've never enjoyed a job so much, and I think I'm lucky to have a job where I get to play with myself & meet tons of new people every day, and get paid for it. Definitely not. My customers & the other cam girls don't let it get boring. Everyone's so fun and amazing to chat with. My favorite part of the day is logging on to see who I'll meet! It's my pleasure.
What kind of hours do you work? I'm sure it's fairly flexible, what's the boss gonna do? Fire you for fucking off? What do you do about the really creepy fuckers that have to show up? Take the money and ban their IP address? What are some examples of crazy shit that you've been asked to do, but didn't because it would be too yucky.
I usually work around 4-5 hours per night, sometimes less, depending on how late it is or what I have going on that night. I can honestly say, that the boss of the site doesn't give a shit about barely anything as long as he gets more members and more money every day. Usually the creepy fuckers don't have any money, so I don't worry about them. But I make it known that if I'm not comfortable with doing something, I won't do it, and then they don't tip. I'm not going to take their money and just give them nothing in return. I've only been working there going on three months, so it hasn't been too crazy. I've been asked to do a pee & poop show in private, but would definitely NEVER do it, so I posted a list of "Don'ts" on my cam girl profile on the site. Other than that, there hasn't really been any crazy stuff. Yet.
In my ever-expanding role as Chater's pimp, I give you Amber's profile page: <a class="postlink" href="http://profiles.myfreecams.com/NaughtyAmberX" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;">http://profiles.myfreecams.com/NaughtyAmberX</a> Oh, and Chater... your web-cam is in the mail.
1. Have you ever connected with someone you know? (I know this is unlikely, but someone had to ask) 2. So how does the payment work? Does your boss take a flat rate for the time the customer uses the service and then you keep tips? Does your boss take commission on tips? 3. How does your boyfriend feel about this?
I actually have an ex who uses the site. He's been in private shows with me before, and has seen me do some public shows. It's a long explanation, sort of, but here goes. Members buy tokens. Every token for me is equal to $.05, but is $.10, I believe, for the member to buy. So, the site pretty much takes half, then I get half of whatever they decide to tip me. For example, if I'm tipped 20 tokens, I get $1.00, the site boss gets $2.00. He wasn't exactly happy with the idea at first. But now that he sees that it's harmless, and that I'm enjoying what I'm doing, he's fine with it.
Why not create your own website and keep all the money? There has to be someone on this board who could help. Does your family know what you do? Any friends 'accidentally' find you online?
If I could find someone willing to help me with that, I'd totally do it. It would be awesome. Everyone knows what I do. I've talked about it on Facebook. I'm not shy, and I don't have any shame because of it. If they're not happy with me doing something that I enjoy, then it's their problem. Nope, but I've gotten a couple of them to sign up!
You seem to enjoy what you are doing and are comfortable with it, but there has to be a line somewhere in what people request...care to elaborate on what kind of stuff is too far? Oh, and thanks for doing this.
A lot of people ask for anal, which I'm not comfortable with at all. It hurts, and I'm not going to put myself through physical pain just to get money. Fisting fits in this category, too. As I said before, poop & pee shows, I'd never do. That's too far. Sticking anything besides my fingers and my toys in my vagina is also too far. I've been asked to fuck a soda bottle, which would never happen. I'm sure there's more, but none that I can think of at this point in time.
To add to everyone who has said so already, thanks for doing this. You mentioned that your interaction with the other cam-girls helps you keep from getting bored. How often do you actually communicate with others like yourself? Do yall just talk about your trade with each other, hoping to learn things to maximize your earnings? Give us a run down on what those conversations are like.
I talk to most of my cam girl friends every day. I'm an active member on one of their forums, where other cam girls also hang out, so we talk about our days, what we're stressed about, and other random things. We keep our shows on the down low, most of the time. We don't like sharing too many ideas, because it's considered disrespectful among other cam girls to have someone "steal" your idea. Well we've become very close with each other. Unfortunately there are no cam girls from the state that I'm in, so I can't do cam shows with them, but a lot of them discuss getting together for doing a girl/girl show together. We discuss our boyfriends. Our other jobs besides camming (if we have one). We talk about a lot of things. Just like normal people.