After the work has gone.....

[Mike]

OK your making big cash, as a photo model, maby doing porn films too.

2 to 3 jobs a week. Easy cash, making ?1000 plus a week. You are 22 having fun.

Your now 35, still getting some jobs, you do not charge as much. Lots of new young girls out there. You still have some fans. You are lucky to make ?200 a week. You think that if you worked at Asda astacking shelves you would get more cash. You have to put up with insults on message boards such as '"give it up your past it".

Your pics are now on most free websites, so no one is interested in shooting you.

So what do you do now?

It would be interesting to know what girls do when the work starts to drie up.

How do you go for job interviews? "Hi, I'm ******, sorry no qualifications, and no experience, except I was a porn star for 10 years"....

[jj]

Is this what is known as a rhetorical question?
And do you spend a lot of time on your own?

[Mike]

I think its an interesting question.

Many times people say on this board "what has happened to....", or "does ------- still model"?

Its like footballers, many are only footballers untill say 30, then thats it.

Its what do you do afterwards.

[jj]

I imagine they get married/shacked up/have babies, and live happily ever after.
When the work dries up, it's either that or re-train for another career.......

[One Eyed Jack]

I've never heard of a former model on the skids because the work dried up. I believe in most cases models who have entered this profession have found it to be a quicker route to getting somewhere better in their lives than stuck in a 9 to 5 job Monday to Friday which was what they were probably trying to avoid in the first place if they took the route of modelling as a vocation in the first place.

More often than not, if a girl is smart, she can make a living or find a suitable career based on this notoriety that working 10 years in a normal job could not provide and if she had a good job in the first place, I doubt she would jeopardise her career to go into porn anyway.

More often than not it ends up like JJ says and if the girl has hit the skids, its usually down to her choice in partner that dictates this.

[Roger]

A lot of the glamour models I've worked with seem to have university degrees so the "sorry no qualifications" doesn't apply.
200 a week for stacking shelves at Asda? In your dreams.

[Matt]

Good point, Roger. It's a bit rude to presume that there's nothing more to performers then their performance. And even if there is, so what? Qualifications are the single biggest overrated waste of time I've ever, erm, wasted my time with. They are, in and of themselves, useless and only poeple who study one of the few moderately useful professions will ever use what they study. More important is a good heart and a dirty mind. Throw in a little creativity and intiuitive, and you pockets will never empty, my friend.

[buttsie]

Alas most of the population have a good heart & a bad mind but they just don't know it

Bad being dinstinctly different from dirty

Ho HUm

cheers
B....OZ

[jj]

...and don't forget that we are rapidly approaching the point at which those lacking some sort of tertiary qualifiaction are in the minority, thereby further devaluing an already debased currency.

[buttsie]

Do to much study and you can become over qualified

Which would you prefer when going for a job and getting knocked back

a:you were our second choice
b:I'm afraid we think you would become bored with this repetitive work as you are over qualified

No substitute for learning on the job so what you have learned in theory can be put into practice straight away before you forget it

cheers
B....OZ