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Jazmen Jafar had her whole life planned out for her. 

Her parents, immigrants from Iran, had strict academic expectations for Jazmen. After all, she graduated college summa cum laude with a 4.0 GPA. After that, she did so well on the LSAT that she received a full-tuition scholarship to a first-tier law school. 

Jazmen went on to pass the bar exam on her first attempt and was hired during her very first interview. She was now a promising young associate whose quick wit and warm personality impressed her senior attorneys, clients, and the greater legal community around her.

A long and successful legal career was well within Jazmen Jafar’s reach. 

Except it was not what she wanted. 

“Although I enjoyed law school, I always knew I didn’t want to be a traditional attorney stuck in an office my whole life,” says Jazmen. “In law school, everybody else was so excited to graduate, and I was dreading it. I kept thinking my life would be over as soon as school ended, and I had to start working long hours and worrying about meeting my billable requirements day-to-day. Many people may not know this, but lawyers are amongst some of the unhappiest professionals. They have much higher rates of depression, anxiety, and substance abuse issues. I knew it was not a lifestyle conducive to my happiness.”

Fortunately, Jazmen Jafar discovered OnlyFans while she was studying for the bar exam. While she didn’t jump into doing it full-time, it did open her eyes to the possibility of taking her life in a different direction.

“At first, I just wanted to make a little extra money while preparing for the bar,” says Jazmen. “But then I started making good money on it pretty quickly, and it was the first time that I had done something that went against the path my parents had mapped out for me. It felt amazing.”

Jazmen maintained her online hustle while working at her law firm.

“I’d be in the office for most of the week, and then when I went home and on the weekends, I’d be filming,” shares Jazmen. “It was like living a double life, and an exhausting one at that. I had no social life. Eventually, it became tough to do both.”

With that, Jazmen faced a difficult choice: continue down a path that made her miserable to please her parents and society or do something that made her happy and face the disappointment of everyone around her. 

Jazmen Jafar made the brave choice and decided to do what made her happy. 

“I could have taken the safe route and let other people’s opinions dictate my life, but I took the leap of faith and decided to live my life in accordance with my values and happiness,” says Jazmen. “I left my law firm and decided to focus on my online adult career.”

Jazmen’s leap of faith, despite her parents’ initial strong reaction against it, has already worked wonders for her well-being. 

Not only is she among OnlyFans’ top 0.1% creators, making exponentially more money than she was as an attorney, but she finally feels free. 

“Other people might think I traded a solid career for something short-lived,” says Jazmen. “But when I had a long and stable future ahead of me, I hated the future. It is only now that the future is full of uncertainty that I am excited for what’s to come. I knew that if I didn’t take this risk, I would be sitting at a desk in five years wondering: what if?”