How many of you ...

[RyanLanane]

Have struggled through serious adversity in this business ?

Did you find it easy to overcome the barriers.. or difficult but manageable? Or did you give up and move on to another arena or sub sector ?

Nick's post earlier got me thinking about that... This could be in real life or just on the internet, any businesses you have had. Hell some life experiences that aren't even work related might fit here.

[sarettah]

Originally Posted by RyanLanane

Have struggled through serious adversity in this business ?

Did you find it easy to overcome the barriers.. or difficult but manageable? Or did you give up and move on to another arena or sub sector ?

Nick's post earlier got me thinking about that... This could be in real life or just on the internet, any businesses you have had. Hell some life experiences that aren't even work related might fit here.

I have in this life been to the very bottom several times.

[Red]

I've been up and down so many times I should have "Duncan" tattooed on my ass.

[MorganGrayson]

Originally Posted by Red

I've been up and down so many times I should have "Duncan" tattooed on my ass.

First, that's going to get points.
Second, I'd pay for a pic of that!

I've never been "up" on a lot of people's scales, but I've been "way up" on my own scale. I've also been so far down it was...words fail. The fallback is and always was my personal life. This business is an addendum to that, not the driving force.

Since it's you asking, Ryan, I'll admit that I'm one of those people from Nick's other post - the "through illness have no other choice" people. I can't go flip burgers, I couldn't even be a greeter at Walmart. The jobs in the "real world" that I once held I can no longer physically do. Luckily, I *can* build pornsites and convert a sponsor or two to add to the "family pot." Even more luckily, I'm married and my husband is the primary wage earner. There was a time in this business when I made more than he did at his job, and he was ecstatic. He wanted a t-shirt that said "My Wife Makes More Money Than I Do and I Laugh All The Way To The Bank!"

In this incarnation, I may be making what most of you would consider "chump change," but it's chump change that's allowing me to go nuts buying holiday gifts.

That's enough for the day at hand.