Comments on: Some Practical Advice for Getting Out of The Adult Industry https://mikesouth.com/julie-meadows/some-practical-advice-for-getting-out-of-the-adult-industry-2966/ The institute for the advance study of insensitivity and pornography Fri, 20 Nov 2009 06:06:14 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.7.2 By: MikeSouth1226 https://mikesouth.com/julie-meadows/some-practical-advice-for-getting-out-of-the-adult-industry-2966/#comment-2346 Fri, 20 Nov 2009 06:06:14 +0000 http://www.mikesouth.com/julie-meadows/some-practical-advice-for-getting-out-of-the-adult-industry-2966/#comment-2346 [New Post] Some Practical Advice for Getting Out of The Adult Industry – via @twitoaster http://www.mikesouth.com/julie-meadows/s…

]]> By: juliemeadows https://mikesouth.com/julie-meadows/some-practical-advice-for-getting-out-of-the-adult-industry-2966/#comment-2166 Wed, 14 Oct 2009 04:25:14 +0000 http://www.mikesouth.com/julie-meadows/some-practical-advice-for-getting-out-of-the-adult-industry-2966/#comment-2166 Thank you, Tony! 🙂

]]> By: tony https://mikesouth.com/julie-meadows/some-practical-advice-for-getting-out-of-the-adult-industry-2966/#comment-2165 Tue, 13 Oct 2009 16:17:07 +0000 http://www.mikesouth.com/julie-meadows/some-practical-advice-for-getting-out-of-the-adult-industry-2966/#comment-2165 I really enjoy reading your writing and my name really is Tony.:)

]]> By: juliemeadows https://mikesouth.com/julie-meadows/some-practical-advice-for-getting-out-of-the-adult-industry-2966/#comment-2164 Tue, 13 Oct 2009 05:46:16 +0000 http://www.mikesouth.com/julie-meadows/some-practical-advice-for-getting-out-of-the-adult-industry-2966/#comment-2164 Very cool. I put quotation marks around everyone’s “names” in the commenting area. I know it’s usually not a person’s real name. 🙂

You have to be 100% about what you want. It’s good to know exactly what that is, but most people do not know. I’m sure you and your wife will make a decision and excel. That’s all it takes, really. Knowing you will excel. I whispered to my man tonight what we will do. I know it. It’s good to know, and then make it happen. 🙂

]]> By: tony https://mikesouth.com/julie-meadows/some-practical-advice-for-getting-out-of-the-adult-industry-2966/#comment-2162 Tue, 13 Oct 2009 03:30:31 +0000 http://www.mikesouth.com/julie-meadows/some-practical-advice-for-getting-out-of-the-adult-industry-2966/#comment-2162 My wife situation is different because all her years in adult she has worked for herself. The only content she shoots is for her sites. Her main site had its 9 yrs anniversary in June. And we love working together and will continue to work for ourselves just do something different. We have five years to figure it out and work on the plan. I left jobs just walked away and it was painful when I made a plan it was much easier. Also I learned in my 45 yrs the world doesnt have to black or white, gray works much better. I saw the quotes around Tony lol we are very real ask Mike I interned under him for a year to learn to shoot video and consider him family.

]]> By: juliemeadows https://mikesouth.com/julie-meadows/some-practical-advice-for-getting-out-of-the-adult-industry-2966/#comment-2151 Fri, 09 Oct 2009 01:42:46 +0000 http://www.mikesouth.com/julie-meadows/some-practical-advice-for-getting-out-of-the-adult-industry-2966/#comment-2151 That is very true. It is definitely a status symbol to wear designer clothes, shoes, accessories. I read a book years ago about how to audition (for theatre, movies, commercials, etc…) and there was actually a section about how it is important to be crazy in order to get into entertainment, and how you must prepare for the games of buying all the latest and most expensive things to really brand yourself as successful because people will critique you by what you have and don’t have. I thought it was hysterical. Thank goodness people like Paul Newman have existed in the world to prove you don’t have to play those games to be fabulous and fascinating – R.I.P.

Thank you, monicaf and thank you, backspace.

]]> By: monicaf https://mikesouth.com/julie-meadows/some-practical-advice-for-getting-out-of-the-adult-industry-2966/#comment-2150 Thu, 08 Oct 2009 18:21:46 +0000 http://www.mikesouth.com/julie-meadows/some-practical-advice-for-getting-out-of-the-adult-industry-2966/#comment-2150 I don’t think you missed anything at all in this article. You touched on some very solid points and wrote this piece from a very realistic perspective.
I especially like the section of your article of which you touch on “downsizing”. It’s so easy to get caught up in the “I must have a designer purse and matching shoes” cycle – especially here in LA – primarily due to your other adult industry “peers” almost encouraging it.

]]> By: backspace https://mikesouth.com/julie-meadows/some-practical-advice-for-getting-out-of-the-adult-industry-2966/#comment-2149 Thu, 08 Oct 2009 05:38:29 +0000 http://www.mikesouth.com/julie-meadows/some-practical-advice-for-getting-out-of-the-adult-industry-2966/#comment-2149 great post ms meadows!

]]> By: juliemeadows https://mikesouth.com/julie-meadows/some-practical-advice-for-getting-out-of-the-adult-industry-2966/#comment-2148 Thu, 08 Oct 2009 05:33:10 +0000 http://www.mikesouth.com/julie-meadows/some-practical-advice-for-getting-out-of-the-adult-industry-2966/#comment-2148 In an ideal world, right?

I’d love to hear the different stories there are from people who have gotten out of the industry. I hope “tony’s” wife makes an easy transition, but I have a friend who built super computers for a well-known company who had a very hard time transitioning into a job that wasn’t too very far from what he’d been doing, but it was different enough that it took several months for a company to finally take him on. He went from working for the military to making printers… again, not a huge difference, but he still encountered problems. I don’t think major life changes are easy. Me, I will always be one of those people who does something for a little while and then has to do something else. In five years I’ll be doing it all over again just to see if I can. Damn gypsy!

]]> By: Toby https://mikesouth.com/julie-meadows/some-practical-advice-for-getting-out-of-the-adult-industry-2966/#comment-2147 Thu, 08 Oct 2009 03:16:06 +0000 http://www.mikesouth.com/julie-meadows/some-practical-advice-for-getting-out-of-the-adult-industry-2966/#comment-2147 “]So basically, as soon as you get into the industry start saving for when you want to get out?”

Yes, that would be the smart play. But I think we all know far too many that have gotten into the business because of the immediate cash aspect.

Earn it today, spend it tomorrow. If it wasn’t already spent yesterday.

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