I left porn about 2 months ago, and I still don't get why is so hard to get a decent job outside of fantasy land. No, it's not what you think, I didn't have sex for a living, I was just in the other side of the camera as a production coordinator. When you work for a production company that produces porn movies, everything is different. High budgets fly left and right, there's always money to buy anything you need to make it happen, and the best of all, everybody is very open minded. No one will judge you no matter how weird you think, not only about sex, about everything... You can tell in the middle of an office your wildest dream, that nobody will get scared of what you're saying. I miss that.
Salaries in porn are incredibly high compared to a regular office job. Let's say you are an administrative assitant. Yes, porn offices have normal places where people work, other than the sex part. Next time you're watching a porn movie, think about it how many people took to make that happen? A lot. Anyway, a regular office job will go from 32000 to 38000 a year. That's a lot more than a regular office assistant will make. The higher the position gets, the higher the salary. Producers will make around 60k, office managers will make 60 to 70k; and it keeps going. Crazy money, crazy extras, trips, parties, events, you name it. It's like leaving in a movie where whores, drug dealers, models and normal people will hang out all together in a big, crazy, disfunctional family.
But you can also get tired of it. And that was my case. I got tired of being around empty people all the time. And now I miss it of course because I am writing about it.
It was just until I started looking a new job untill I realize the good part of being in a porn company. Now I see what it was, but hey since I got tired of it, I had to leave before it was too late for me. Now, I know is not going to be easy for me. I also know I can't go back to Fantasy Land. I believe if you want it, you'll get it. In the meantime, I'll just keep swimming.
