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There's nothing better than watching people casually ask what you do.... and you answer them truthfully.
...especially when I'm at a bar and I've had some drinks too. There's my Friday night, right there.
...oh, and an ever better combination is to be at the bar, and it is a guy hitting on me... and then answer them truthfully. It typically knocks them completely off their move, and they end up going away.
Steve
"The truth is hard to swallow" - Karen Finley
Sometimes i'm straight forward about it (like desslock after a few drinks, haha), but for the most part I start gradually and go from there...
i'll start with "internet marketing" or "internet media"...
but i think most of the people i meet are pervs, cuz their mind automatically goes to... "Oh, Porn?" to which i giggle and say yes. :cheekymonkey:
I'm usually upfront unless I'm talking to someone who I need to be concerned about a bad reaction, like the person at the bank dealing with my account, or someone preparing food for me. Sometimes I'll say, "I'm in the adult industry", depending on who I'm talking to, and sometimes I'll just say "I work in porn". One time I was having brunch with friends when actress Sally Kirkland randomly sat down at our table (only in Hollywood does this kind of thing happen to people). She thought my friend was her masseur. Anyway, she stuck around and had a nice conversation with us and when I told her I worked in the "adult industry" she happily shouted out, "Oh, you work in PORN! How exiting". LOL!
If you live in LA, you can just say "I'm in the entertainment industry" and people will leave you alone. That's because everyone uses that line REGARDLESS of what industry they really work in. People just accept that line and move on.
I've got a lot of lines depending on who's asking.
"I sit in a cloth covered box for eight hours a day."
"I work at the Internet."
"I'm in ecommerce."
"I work for eXtremeRestraints.com"
"I sell sex toys and BDSM gear. You know, leather restraints, steel shackles, rubber horse penises, etc..."
Also of course, "I'm in the adult industry?"
I learn the most about people when I tell them that I work at eXtremeRestraints.com, because I learn a lot about them whey they say things like "Oh, I get your newsletter."
The crowd I hang out with tends to introduce me as Sex Toy James, so I don't often pussyfoot around it. Anyway, I love my job.
My family all knows what I do for a living and they are cool with it. My 17 year old brother wants in on the "action" (AFTER he turns 18 in June of course!) and my mom is a member of our website! She's been a flame dame since before I was born and she use to steal all my porn because, as she puts it, the guys in gay porn are hotter to watch! For "outsiders", I am the Director of Marketing for an Internet site. If said correctly, it can be the end all of the discussion, unless I care to divulge more and then I leave the sentence open at the end for them to ask for further details!
lol our bank manager is also a member of cbl :) helps no end of red tape cutting :)
so is my mortgage broker that i have used forever..
but yeah i usually just say website design and leave it at that, til i know them
Like others I start with "internet marketing" and follow up with examples of mainstream affiliate programs I've plugged. I haven't told them about the porn yet.
Tell them you build model airplanes mostly....unless they let you out...lol
Seriously though, coming from an Italian family with a grandmother who seems to live in church,I myself have to sometimes be creative in answering that question without outright bullshitting the person that's asking.
Tell whomever this applies to that you work as an adviser in the entertainment industry. From what I gather, that's what you do anyway being council, and it shouldn't need to be answered in detail because our business is broad enough in definition to directly answer the question without seeming evasive by simply stating you're an adviser in entertainment.