Does everyone in your family know you work in the adult industry?

[docholly]

well at various times, my daughter etc have had to deal with inlaws, mostly very uptight prudish jamaicans.. --it's that uk influence--

but as the primary income producer likewise they couldn't stop working to 'entertain' so they became 'on-line customer service' agents, who had to work in privacy.

depending on how your living facilities are set up, if she has a special room set aside, etc.. and you dont want to come clean on this particular visit..then just sit him down and say, 'i telecommute but because the camera, microphone pick up every noise, i must have total silence in the room' then hang a sign on the room--meeting in session.

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[Useless]

Everyone who asks me what I do knows what I do. I think that some aunts and cousins think I've been unemployed for the last three years, which is fine with me. My wife's parents don't know, at least I don't think that they know. Maybe they do... My wife's stepmother is a holy-roller and I just don't want to deal with her. I don't avoid telling someone due to embarassment. I'm not embarassed at all. It's just a matter of feeding people something they have the ability to digest.

[Wenchy]

Originally Posted by Useless Warrior

I don't avoid telling someone due to embarassment. I'm not embarassed at all. It's just a matter of feeding people something they have the ability to digest.

Couldn't have said it better, UW. My parents and my brothers know and really act like they could care less. Come to think of it, I don't think my youngest brother's wife knows, but then I don't like her anyway and couldn't give a blue fuck what she thinks. My sister... I'm not sure; I haven't told her but if she knows it's no big wiggle to me.

Extended family is another story entirely. My dad's dad is kind of an asshole (and I say that in a loving way) and the grief I'd get from him would be more along the lines of "why do you work at home instead of out in the real world like a normal person?"... just not worth it. I think the porn part of it would be so "distasteful" to him that he'd try to skirt the issue as much as possible, which is pretty much they way he always does things. I'm not close to the rest of dad's family... they don't know me or what I do.

My mom's side of the family lives pretty much in the bible belt... see UW's quoted statement above as an explanation for their lack of knowledge.

My son knows and is showing a great deal of curiosity about and interest in writing HTML, using FTP, how servers work, etc. A couple more years and I may have a built in partner.

I suppose if the neighbors ask I'll tell 'em, but at this point it's not an issue.

Good luck Jugg... I wouldn't trade places with you for all the tea in China

[juggernaut]

Originally Posted by docholly

well at various times, my daughter etc have had to deal with inlaws, mostly very uptight prudish jamaicans.. --it's that uk influence--

but as the primary income producer likewise they couldn't stop working to 'entertain' so they became 'on-line customer service' agents, who had to work in privacy.

depending on how your living facilities are set up, if she has a special room set aside, etc.. and you dont want to come clean on this particular visit..then just sit him down and say, 'i telecommute but because the camera, microphone pick up every noise, i must have total silence in the room' then hang a sign on the room--meeting in session.

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Very very good advice. It wont work tho as the house we live in is a 1 bedroom condo with a loft so its kind of all open space and only 1k worth of it. I think what I'm going to have my wife do is tell him before he comes here. She roughly has till August and I think that would be plenty of time to iron this all out. Besides they are 6k miles away and that should make things just a little easier or at least make my wife feel safer in that they cant or wont be able to yell at her face. I have sat with her dad a few times and really got the impression that a inteligent man that he is will be able to understand the business side of it. I also think he will respect it. I know they would not have any problems with this if she was not working the site. IE she was helping more in the business side of things. Im sure my screwed up brain will figure out something. Heck if it comes down to it. Ill call the bro and borrow the cash for the two months needed to cover us. At least this way we can tell them she only does the business end of it. Let them think we are successful webmasters. Wait are we? I once heard that getting a pay site up and running and receiving one sale is called successful lol.