For some, grad school is a time to learn, research and develop necessary skills. For others, grad school is simply a layover to life. For me, however, grad school is the perfect excuse to do porn in the off season in effort to allay the raping cost of tuition. I’ll be the first to admit that I’m an ivy-league sell-out. I want the name; I want the education; I want the connections. And now, I’m going to have to pay for it.
How the fuck does anyone expect to live after taking out a mortgage for a piece of paper and a little bit of pride? It’s so tempting. But now I realize (and I may or may not be kidding) that doing adult films in the summer is the only way to handle it.
Has anyone else done this? I’m curious. Because I know people have.
I've never understood that. Why is porn legal and prostitution isn't? In both cases you take money for sex. imho they both should be legal and people should be able to do as they please.
But to the larger point, what should be a crime is that education spending is so low and the cost for a decent school is so high that a person needs to consider selling themselves to pay for it.
yeah, i know, and i'm considering it. maybe if i wrote them and told them that they would offer me a pity scholarship. a get-out-of-porn free card or something. something!
i find it an interesting coincidence that "the RAPING cost of tuition" is used in the description for the topic of using porn to make it thru the debt...
easterbunny - are you a female? If so, then you may be able to pay your way thru an Ivy by doing porn. If not, then your options would be limited to state universities or even technical/trade schools.
I'm surprised mdler hasn't posted on this thread yet...
what do you mean by "doing porn"? if you are planning to perform sex acts on film yourself then i'm not even sure that you would make enough to significantly impact the cost of your ivy league education. on the other hand if you are planning to start your own porn company then you might profit enough to actually pay for the education...although probably not on a part time/summer basis.
personally, this sounds like a terrible idea and if you are really so concerned about the costs then you would probably be much better off finding a school with a more affordable price tag for your budget.
omg.. if i could do porn to pay for school i would in a heartbeat. i cant find a way not to be in debt 80,000dollars when im done. how is anyone supposed to pay that?!?!?!? let alone, buy a house, a car, raise a family, eat, etc etc
good idea easter bunny. if you got the goods to make some $$ in porn.. do it!
gay porn pays better than straight / some holes pay better than others.
it's really not glamorous.
distribution/production is where the money is.
also, the valley is more accessable to sci-arc, and tampa isn't near anything. you could overnight to montreal, and check out some sweet architecture while you're there (you could film @ habitat! - yay archiporn)
tumbleweed's onto the benefactor kick. it's definitely a safer career move, and probably a lot more fun (jetset to london? why not!)
Comedic intentions of the post aside, is this metaphoric for the mindset of the young architects? I must pay for more "education" by any means possible? Do you people realize your futures are being stunted by the very educations your seeking in higher degrees? They do not differentiate you in the marketplace , they do not magicaly bestow on you magical design talent and I would argue hardly improve your earning potential unlike other profesions. In fact, they limit your future earnings by starting you in debt and robbing you of the equity you'll need to buy into a firm later. Your fucking yourselves because some presumptuous professors think you need to spend 2 years at 35K each playing with software that will be obsolete in 2 years.
There is a real crisis of educated idiots entering this field at the worst time possible. Fee % of total project cost is down, vendors are increasingly taking on more detailed design roles on large projects while the bread and butter small to mid sized residential and commercial projects are increasingly being done by design / build contractors. The next generation comming in thinks a 2500 sft home addition requires a structural engineer and MEP consultant. Thats how bad its gotten - architects cant specify a simple furnace, air conditioning system or do a framing plan anymore. Ask yourself - if I was the client how much would this person be worth? I can draw a fucking house or cut one out the magazine and give it to competant builder.
Go ahead and do your porn - get used to sucking cock for money, you'll be doing a long time in this profesion.
granted that porn "stars" may make good money...but it seems naïve to me to assume that someone could show up in for a few months each summer and score a windfall. porn industry is just as cutthroat as any other with its own set of dues to pay and obstacles to hurdle. more likely that easter bunny will be quickly used & dumped by the industry with minimum financial gain...and an embarrassing catalog of pictures...if not veneral disease. how delightful!
if you are serious, I can put you in touch with some people in the porn business. One of my clients is one of the top porn lawyers in LA if you want me to talk to him
I have not done anything that qualifies as actual porn. But, if anyone doesn't want to admit me, fund me, or hire me because of my creation of and appearance in erotic imagery... that's a GOOD thing. It weeds out all the people I don't want to interact with on a regular basis because they'll censor/oppress me. (I am, in fact, one of those empowered feminists who doesn't do drugs.) That tactic doesn't answer the irritation of assholes who randomly confront you & try to make you feel bad/guilty for doing it, but it's best to ignore those.
I would probably do porn:
a) if it were possible to sustain a living wage in porn by sleeping only with people I find desirable independently of financial compensation, but as I understand it, that is not the case. And...
b) if I were more comfortable with my physical appearance. But I'm not. Not like I hate myself or anything, but do I want someone staring at my closeups in HD on a 48" flat panel? No.
If you do it, I don't think you should try to keep it a secret (even if you don't invest in the corresponding business cards). Just assume that people WILL find out, no matter your discretion - because many of the people who would refuse to hire or marry you because of your affiliation with the industry probably found out about the affiliation by downloading your videos ;) If you're open about it, no one can use it against you, because there's no secret to expose.
easterbunny, i think you gotto post some pics of yours so we can decide if your new 'venture' will, ahem, stand the test.
by the way, there IS serious money to be made in porn, IF you make it a 20 hour-per-week job, at the least. I know of a couple of porn stars, who drive real expensive cars and live in very high-rent houses.
doing porn to pay for Ivy M.arch?
For some, grad school is a time to learn, research and develop necessary skills. For others, grad school is simply a layover to life. For me, however, grad school is the perfect excuse to do porn in the off season in effort to allay the raping cost of tuition. I’ll be the first to admit that I’m an ivy-league sell-out. I want the name; I want the education; I want the connections. And now, I’m going to have to pay for it.
How the fuck does anyone expect to live after taking out a mortgage for a piece of paper and a little bit of pride? It’s so tempting. But now I realize (and I may or may not be kidding) that doing adult films in the summer is the only way to handle it.
Has anyone else done this? I’m curious. Because I know people have.
Yes.
invite me please
ill do porn to pay for a grad degree
maybe we can start our own studio.
Frank's Cherry
Frank Lloyd Tight
Adolf Loose
Fumihiko Maki Whoopee
Mayline my gayline
I'm not too good at this. any others?
LOL!!!!! those are good easterbunny!!
2 girls 1 t-square
Why porn? The Eliot Spitzer types pay more, of course your vagina (or penis I guess?) has to be 'magic'.
it's illegal. i want to go to grad school not prison.
if elliot had paid to make a movie, he'd still have a job.
isn't this a fucked up country? you can't even pay a hooker for a little love.
I've never understood that. Why is porn legal and prostitution isn't? In both cases you take money for sex. imho they both should be legal and people should be able to do as they please.
But to the larger point, what should be a crime is that education spending is so low and the cost for a decent school is so high that a person needs to consider selling themselves to pay for it.
yeah, i know, and i'm considering it. maybe if i wrote them and told them that they would offer me a pity scholarship. a get-out-of-porn free card or something. something!
pics?
not that there is any difference between what you're thinking about to pay for school and how you get paid by a client...
measurements?
you know i hate soft core, full on pene...
way to raise the bar. see u on redtube.
i'm dead certain part time porn stars make more money than architects. and then there's that whole spiel about architects being whores anyway.
i find it an interesting coincidence that "the RAPING cost of tuition" is used in the description for the topic of using porn to make it thru the debt...
no coincidence there.
easterbunny - are you a female? If so, then you may be able to pay your way thru an Ivy by doing porn. If not, then your options would be limited to state universities or even technical/trade schools.
I'm surprised mdler hasn't posted on this thread yet...
you can do gay porn...
Whilst considering this option, I was disappointed to see the name Johnny Depth was already taken....I wanted that name....
ahahaha, that's a good one.
what do you mean by "doing porn"? if you are planning to perform sex acts on film yourself then i'm not even sure that you would make enough to significantly impact the cost of your ivy league education. on the other hand if you are planning to start your own porn company then you might profit enough to actually pay for the education...although probably not on a part time/summer basis.
personally, this sounds like a terrible idea and if you are really so concerned about the costs then you would probably be much better off finding a school with a more affordable price tag for your budget.
Puddles, you can be such a killjoy sometimes.
As far as names, don't forget:
Mies van der Ho
Rimjob Kool-ass
Phillip's Johnson
Robert A.M. Sturdy
puddles, you severely underestimate the amount of money that porn pays
omg.. if i could do porn to pay for school i would in a heartbeat. i cant find a way not to be in debt 80,000dollars when im done. how is anyone supposed to pay that?!?!?!? let alone, buy a house, a car, raise a family, eat, etc etc
good idea easter bunny. if you got the goods to make some $$ in porn.. do it!
which is worse, doing porn or finding a generous benefactor?
i recommend not going that route. but...
gay porn pays better than straight / some holes pay better than others.
it's really not glamorous.
distribution/production is where the money is.
also, the valley is more accessable to sci-arc, and tampa isn't near anything. you could overnight to montreal, and check out some sweet architecture while you're there (you could film @ habitat! - yay archiporn)
tumbleweed's onto the benefactor kick. it's definitely a safer career move, and probably a lot more fun (jetset to london? why not!)
Comedic intentions of the post aside, is this metaphoric for the mindset of the young architects? I must pay for more "education" by any means possible? Do you people realize your futures are being stunted by the very educations your seeking in higher degrees? They do not differentiate you in the marketplace , they do not magicaly bestow on you magical design talent and I would argue hardly improve your earning potential unlike other profesions. In fact, they limit your future earnings by starting you in debt and robbing you of the equity you'll need to buy into a firm later. Your fucking yourselves because some presumptuous professors think you need to spend 2 years at 35K each playing with software that will be obsolete in 2 years.
There is a real crisis of educated idiots entering this field at the worst time possible. Fee % of total project cost is down, vendors are increasingly taking on more detailed design roles on large projects while the bread and butter small to mid sized residential and commercial projects are increasingly being done by design / build contractors. The next generation comming in thinks a 2500 sft home addition requires a structural engineer and MEP consultant. Thats how bad its gotten - architects cant specify a simple furnace, air conditioning system or do a framing plan anymore. Ask yourself - if I was the client how much would this person be worth? I can draw a fucking house or cut one out the magazine and give it to competant builder.
Go ahead and do your porn - get used to sucking cock for money, you'll be doing a long time in this profesion.
yea, but it might help him/her learn the in-and-outs of the business...
granted that porn "stars" may make good money...but it seems naïve to me to assume that someone could show up in for a few months each summer and score a windfall. porn industry is just as cutthroat as any other with its own set of dues to pay and obstacles to hurdle. more likely that easter bunny will be quickly used & dumped by the industry with minimum financial gain...and an embarrassing catalog of pictures...if not veneral disease. how delightful!
it's safe to say this is a tongue-in-cheek thread.
easterbunny - you could always spice up your M.Arch application portfolio with some of your "film work". Talk about a portfolio that would stand out!
MArch from the School of Hard Cocks?
just print one out and save yourself the humiliation
unless your a feminist with the right perspective on empowerment who doesn't do drugs
easterbunny
if you are serious, I can put you in touch with some people in the porn business. One of my clients is one of the top porn lawyers in LA if you want me to talk to him
I'll Do Porn to Support my INCOME TAX HABIT!
there isn't any money in porn (in the performing side), you might as well try and find a sugar daddy/momma fo sum rent.
I have not done anything that qualifies as actual porn. But, if anyone doesn't want to admit me, fund me, or hire me because of my creation of and appearance in erotic imagery... that's a GOOD thing. It weeds out all the people I don't want to interact with on a regular basis because they'll censor/oppress me. (I am, in fact, one of those empowered feminists who doesn't do drugs.) That tactic doesn't answer the irritation of assholes who randomly confront you & try to make you feel bad/guilty for doing it, but it's best to ignore those.
I would probably do porn:
a) if it were possible to sustain a living wage in porn by sleeping only with people I find desirable independently of financial compensation, but as I understand it, that is not the case. And...
b) if I were more comfortable with my physical appearance. But I'm not. Not like I hate myself or anything, but do I want someone staring at my closeups in HD on a 48" flat panel? No.
If you do it, I don't think you should try to keep it a secret (even if you don't invest in the corresponding business cards). Just assume that people WILL find out, no matter your discretion - because many of the people who would refuse to hire or marry you because of your affiliation with the industry probably found out about the affiliation by downloading your videos ;) If you're open about it, no one can use it against you, because there's no secret to expose.
easterbunny, i think you gotto post some pics of yours so we can decide if your new 'venture' will, ahem, stand the test.
by the way, there IS serious money to be made in porn, IF you make it a 20 hour-per-week job, at the least. I know of a couple of porn stars, who drive real expensive cars and live in very high-rent houses.
Gay porn is where the money is at if you're a dude
Porn is legal and prostitution is not the same way that boxing is legal and fighting is not. Just read about Larry Flynt's cases.
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