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Originally Posted by The Porn Nerd
While I understand your perspective - anyone who had previous success may find it impossible to ever forget 'the good old days' - this is still looking backwards and using the psychological rule of comparison to make yourself feel bad. I'd rather look forward and compare my success NOW to how shitty my life was pre-Adult.  |
I understand your thinking there and that you're trying to be optimistic.
But...I have a friend who owns a multi-million dollar app building company:
One Solution Apps. And his company is now working hand in hand with
Seattle Cloud using their platform.
I've been doing some work with them on the side making money.
At first I wouldn't do it. But they were after me pretty hard. And they finally got me by asking me a simple question: "Robbie, is the adult industry growing or shrinking?"
They already knew that answer. And as I'm sitting there with my friend that owns the company and a couple of other guys worth north of 100 million each...I had to answer truthfully..."No, it's not growing anymore".
And that's when I knew I needed to work with them.
And "no", I didn't go to work for them. But "yes", I'm doing some work with them because the money is flowing in that industry exactly the way it used to flow in the adult industry.
So no...I don't look at it as pining for the "good old days", I look at it as: A healthy industry pays well for talented people. I'm not making the money I should be in this industry. Yeah, I make a lot. But it's still not what it should be because the value of porn is now devalued.
Yeah, I'm like you in that I try to stay optimistic. Every day I get up and think: "Today I'm gonna kick ass"
But I also have to think about the future.
Unless things change in a huge way, the deck is stacked against us for the future (talking actual selling of porn). In terms of real growth and making money, it's just not there at the moment.