Born into it!
My Dad shot & sold 8mm stag loops on cini film. People were always knocking the door at all hours, and furtively stuffing money into dads hands.
He made so much money from it, he had to find a way to explain it, so he opened a laundrette / laundromat which was a cash buisness to cover the influx in money.
Video came along and I earnt pocket money putting 12 blank tapes into machines and then hitting record on them and play on the master - No monitor was involved, so I never saw the tapes, but I knew what was going on...
By the time I was 16 (Legal Age in the UK) I was well aware of the score and was helping out with the sales etc, but just after my 18th birthday, I decided to go it alone and began shooting my own movies, on VHS, and duplicating on Dads equipment.
I made sales via newspaper adverts and a mailing list. Monety was good - I bought my own house & equipment. A few years later, internet arrived, and I was advertising my VHS tapes online.
Then the penny dropped... And I was off to the races!
Moved to the USA in late 99 early 2000 with my then wife (an award winning pornstar) and we were laughing - Retired fully from shooting in 2013 set for life!
Then i decided to spend all my money on food, and i spent the lot which is why i am a fat fuck what cunt a4d nuffin...
