With the dot-com downturn and the impending Hollywood strike where are employees in these industries turning to for jobs? Turns out, adult entertainment is looking for a few good people. Porno is an industry that is never really affected by economic downturns, other sorts of downturns tend to affect it a little bit more, but Viagra tends to help that problem.
latimes.com - While Hollywood may be looking to strike and the dot-coms are laying off people left and right, there is a place where workers in these industries can find employment, as long as they don´t mind hearing talk about anal-sex. That´s right, the porno industry is hiring, and while other companies are doing badly porno continues to do well. Sex sells, apparently even when people don´t have any money.
Working for porno companies generally entails a lower wage for Hollywood production people as filming T&A all day is generally considered a perk. Pay can be competitive for dot-com workers though, as looking at porno on the Internet is just a fact of life for most 20 something males.
According to the article, "for many Hollywood veterans, working in porn is just another day on the set." Usually the day doesn´t include filming and lighting anal orgies and gangbangs, or working with a Sony Handicam in strange positions, but hey a paycheck is a paycheck!
One former dot-com employee that works for porno producer Vivid "now spends eight hours a day digitally covering up female nipples for the company´s front-page." Now that´s something to put on the resume! Of course we all know that that translates into "excellent Photoshop editing skills."
It´s heartening to know that if civilization breaks down and the economy hits rock bottom that porno will survive and thrive as a refuge for those needing to make rent. If the VCR had been invented earlier perhaps the Great Depression might never have happened.