What skills from previous jobs do you bring to the porn table?

[SilentKnight]

Over the years I've had a mish-mash of various jobs - all of which taught me different skill sets that (when combined) were invaluable when I finally started my own company.

Through the mid/late 80s and early 90s I worked in the print/graphics industry in Toronto at half a dozen different printing/press shops. I learned about pre-press paste-up, typesetting, design, layout, cameras & darkrooms, film stripping...the works. At one point I ran the entire camera dept. for Canada's second-largest advertising agency during my college co-op work-term. It was fascinating work at the time - going through the gradual transition from analog to digital in the industry...using new state-of-the-art computer technology to do things that previously had been done analog/manual.

I shifted gears to media/video production and landed a short stint as a camera operator/video editor with Director's Film Co. in Toronto - doing TV commercial casting calls. That led me to taking a job as a video editor for Canada's largest adult video retail distributor - and hence the adult industry introduction.

But it wasn't until I started my own production company that I finally got to utilize all the combined skills and experience under one umbrella. In a roundabout way I'd been putting all the pieces together over the years - without knowing the final outcome and goal.

What a long, strange trip its been.

So I'm curious what skills everyone's acquired from previous jobs that became invaluable to you in the porn industry.

[pornmasta]

good masturbation skills

[SilentKnight]

Originally Posted by pornmasta

good masturbation skills

[TeenCat]

design and alcoholism here

[MiamiBoyz]

Expert cocksucking skills finely honed in college.

[lagwagon]

[seksi]

Obviously professional network, systems administration, web programming and software QA experience is useful to have, but work in television (was for my school district in high school, and we had a tv magnet program, so two years of instruction in tv proceeded that) has been huge, at least since we seem to have overcome the Acacia media copyright trolling that threatened adult internet video.

Political campaign, pr & press for protests, while largely unpaid, led to development of press contacts lists, understanding formats and what journos want out events, press releases, etc.

Humanitarian disaster relief work, and hotel hospitality have helped in understanding both security and hospitality, feeding and calming crowds of irritable and injured people on the move and far from home - that's useful when attending these big shows, I suppose :P

[wehateporn]

Programming and IT

[SilentKnight]

Originally Posted by seksi

Humanitarian disaster relief work, and hotel hospitality have helped in understanding both security and hospitality, feeding and calming crowds of irritable and injured people on the move and far from home - that's useful when attending these big shows, I suppose :P

That's one way of lookin' at it, sure.

[gnawledge]

The only thing that brought me was I couldn't make a dollar mainstream. Skill set from other jobs is none -- complete opposite spectrum. I guess past jobs made me stubborn and refusal to quit mentality.

[pornmasta]

[CPA-Rush]

hobbies ++++

[Focus]

Originally Posted by lagwagon

Damn, i would hire him in a heartbeat.

[CurrentlySober]

I.T. whit a silent 'sh'...

[woj]

Originally Posted by lagwagon

[LAJ]

Writing, speaking, networking, sales, PR and event production skills. Did all of that in the mainstream in the 90s before coming to adult in 2000.

[izombie]

Worked in a University IT Department for over 25 years, did mostly desktop support and some prgramming here and there. Got a bachelors in MIS and a masters in IT, lost my job a couple of years ago and now perusing my life's dream as a filth merchant.

[xXXtesy10]

milk goat best of village

[the Shemp]

"Shemp, I need a CV with all your adult experience, don't need your other exp."

i got that message from an adult job agency .. i thought it was pretty funny...

[xXXtesy10]

Originally Posted by MiamiBoyz

Expert cocksucking skills finely honed in college.

forgot number mma bouts and expert conversion weights: grams, ounce, 8baller

[SilentKnight]

Originally Posted by the Shemp

"Shemp, I need a CV with all your adult experience, don't need your other exp."

i got that message from an adult job agency .. i thought it was pretty funny...

Someone from the agency obviously didn't know the difference between a CV and a resume.

[billywatson]

Being an ex-middle school teacher helps me handle with the mentality of most of Porn Valley.

[kittykatt]

Originally Posted by SilentKnight

for me 3 years customer service rep at a riser management company, Waitressing, Sales at AT&T, private math tutoring, and 6 months entertainment industry

[michael.kickass]

hahaha, awesome. I'd hire him.

[yuu.design]

photography and design

[John-ACWM]

Originally Posted by pornmasta

good masturbation skills

[XXXtrailers]

sales and marketing

[Tekkno]

My lack of social skills

[MediaGuy]

Appropriate use of the English language and regular hygiene.

:D

[RTP]

Hiring. It's easy to post a job somewhere and wait but it takes a certain skill level to convince someone passive to explore a new job. On the other side of the fence it's difficult to determine if a person will the right fit for a team and match in terms of not only qualifications but intangibles such as if they won't get the shit kicked out of them for being an asshole etc. So far so good, transitioning that side into the business...we've hunted down some senior people for jobs like Development Managers and even Directors

Also how to deal with whores.