i was having a similar conversation with another escort recently as she was saying its used to be easy to maek 500 700 a day and be finnished by 6pm and now its crap but to be honest its no point in looking back and remembering what you used to make its pointless its will only drive you nuts you have to think about what you can do right now to make it busier for you working differently, different places ect and just plod on like the rest of us
I think you're really right, Paris, and you're inspirational too.
Because I hate to sound cheesy and like "every cloud has a silver lining guys! Chins up!" because I experience stress daily thinking about my future and how to get the career I want (the recession affecting every industry, of course) and how to make ends meet when I can't do so much escorting in the near future - but the recession can be hugely inspirational and motivating if you think about it positively. At the same time as being scary and annoying and all that, too.
I mean, it's definitely motivating me to downsize and cut costs as much as possible while simultaneously pushing me towards thinking about as many alternative methods of income as I can think up. It's certainly stopping me from being all, "Oh, darling, I couldn't possibly get out of bed for less than ?300 per hour, let alone have a minimum wage civvy job!" (of course it's fine not to want to be a wage-slave, but if you're making the choice to only work in one way, I do think you need to accept the repercussions of that choice i.e. relying 100% on earnings from sex work which are unreliable and not what they used to be, etc) - I'm now far more interested in long-term employment opportunities in certain fields, and various methods of freelance/independent work that I can do in my spare hours, than I was when I first started escorting. I do really value the freedom escorting provides and will sorely miss it when I finally give it up, so I do understand not wanting to stop. But escorting + a recession = the perfect opportunity to dream up some alternative business ideas,
if you are feeling like you'd like to earn more money!
You've got extra free time due to fewer bookings, reading and researching online is a perfect task to fit in between clients, and you're still covering the basic costs because sex work is still one of the best-paying jobs around. You can do literally anything you want because you have the freedom to dedicate 1 full day per week, or two half days per week, or whatever you can manage, to dreaming up all sorts of ideas and plans to achieve your life goals. Volunteering, studying, work placements, freelancing, contract work (and touring here could be considered another sort of business, still within sex work, but it works quite differently so certainly counts as an alternative to waiting around for local bookings) - you can really do almost anything around escorting. So whatever plan you can think of, you can make work. Recession be damned, really, because sure, you might have to start smaller and grow slower but who cares about that? There's less competition out there in the business world at the moment, in a way, and you'll have an edge because you'll still have a part-time income higher than many people's full-time salaries. That's money to live off while you dedicate hours to your project, or money to invest into your project, or money to spend treating yourself to a nice meal after working your bum off all week.
Just to say quickly that I'm not directing this at anyone in particular, just discussing generally, and although I'm obviously super-enthusiastic about doing all sorts of different work as well as sex work I don't think anyone else ought to feel that way necessarily. But if you're feeling bored because of having fewer clients, or feeling financially worse-off and it's bugging you, there are SO MANY possibilities for solutions to these problems! If you invest your free time into study, or volunteering/work placements, or literally starting a new business from scratch, you could end up better off before the recession even ends - and you could end up really raking in some serious cash in the next boom (if the whole world doesn't completely collapse permanently, ahem). Either way, you're not bored and you're not limiting your income, so it's fairly win-win.
I have a few things I'd love to do if I ever have time, including learning how to make clothes (and lingerie!) so that I can design lovely things and sell them online; I've seen some existing small-but-growing businesses doing this and am really impressed with what they're doing. If I had any budget for buying clothes at the moment, I would use it all to support independent small British businesses producing stuff like this; my studying at the moment eats up every spare penny but there are still plenty of people out there buying nice stuff. And like Paris has mentioned elsewhere before, I use my travel plans as motivation to work harder and reach goals. I have volunteering plans and part-time work that I'd like to do, which will probably also involve work placements and lots of projects in my own time to prove my competence and skills, but this is also waiting til after I've finished studying.
Speaking of studying, there's a book I need to get back to right now
but I just think that it's a good idea to use slow times to really think about all the things in life that you'd like to do. It needn't be business/career stuff (as I said, that's my personal interest hence the bias in my post, but obviously any interests are completely valid and important) - you might want to write a book or learn to ride horses or watch lots of great films or make jewellery. Some interests take financial investment to develop - which you might not have at the moment due to the recession - but many don't and sometimes even the others can be developed for cheap or free if you have the extra time and energy to put into figuring out how. (So having extra time to read books/manuals and watch online tutorial vids could make up for not being able to attend an expensive jewellery-making course, for example.) And of course if you're fine just chilling til the recession ends - spending more time with friends & family is important, too! - then you don't need to worry about any of the other stuff anyway. But if you're bored, honestly, there is so much you could be doing!
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