We're hardly all going to say, 'Well, der, I'm right stupid, me', are we? Plus, there are other forms of intelligence besides academic qualifications (I know some people with PhDs who can barely boil an egg or hold an engaging conversation).

I have a life sciences degrees, worked professionally for 25 years, was made redundant, starting whoring and now combine a little with freelancing in my old profession.

Those who choose this work do so because they realise they can make the same amount of money as someone who has spent almost half their life training for a job and only reaping the rewards after 10+ years.

Except that those will be able to 1) Put this on the CV and able to tell other people about and be respected for it, and 2) they’ll be able to make that money or more when they’re 50,60+ etc. Sex work will be forever disrespected sorry to say.

Hmm I’m with Miffy here, I think your use of language is a bit under handed especially for the nature of what this site is.
I don’t have any specific qualifications but iv never had a problem getting a ‘mainstream’ job in the past and iv done mainstream and escorting at the same time, iv now decided that it’s much more worth my while to focus on escorting as a full time job for now. I have everything set up as a business and I treat it as such, plus, I think sex workers are in fact very savvy and sharp minded which you have to be in order to be successful in this line of work. It’s not for the faint hearted and we’ve all got many a qualities that don’t need years of education in order to succeed in this field.

Being educated and intelligent are two very different things. The latter, particularly emotional intelligence has always served me very well, particularly as an escort.