I don’t consider people who started at a more mature age to be “late-starters”, after all there is no “on-time” to have started in this profession. As has been said multiple times ‘shelf-life’ doesn’t mean a lot/means next to nothing when it comes to clients or the amount of business one might get. I wasn’t at all implying that to have started at 40+ age meant that anyone had to compete (anymore than any aged escort/dw) and therefore it’s a downside to have started at 40+. Not at all.
My question came from a place of pure curiosity as to whether people who had started 40+ felt they’d maybe ‘missed out’ on the financial side, or whether they were glad they’d waited and lived a ‘civvie’ life and could experience both sides of the coin (so to speak).
I guess it was an empty question really, as no one can tell how things would have been had it been the other way around, had I waited til I was 40+ I can’t say how my life would has gone between now and then.
I was just interested in how people who had waited felt about doing so, and how those who had started at an earlier age, felt about doing that also.
Sorry if I caused any offence, really wasn’t my intention whatsoever.
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Eve I didn't read your question as negative in the slightest, just that you were interested whether anyone wished they had started doing this sooner than they had, that's all. I'm in my forties and started in my forties too, from a financial perspective yes, I could have started ten or twenty years earlier and i like to think I'd be much better off now! But also, I was shit with money actually until quite recently so it's quite possible I would be no better off and had wasted the opportunity to save / invest etc.

I often think that anyone who starts any working career in a highly paid job is putting pressure on themselves to keep that level of income. I'd rather have lower outgoings and be able to earn more and NOW I can do better things with my money. Also experience of working for other people means I probably appreciate this more than I might have done. So I'm not sure that I would have been any better off had I started younger, I was a lot less sensible then!

22/23 I think!!  Xxxx

Started at 26 and constantly wishing I woke up at least those two years earlier.  Thought the shelf life is typically around 35ish max and now pleasantly discovering that women continue working well into their 50s... So, I’m not gonna give it a finish line, just carry on until I’m edible hahaha 

Aged 48.  Quite mature in fact!

Late starter at 48 fairly recently, wish I started some years earlier, so far only part-time.

I was, let's see...52? & now 57? The main thing this job has taught me is how to spot a lie at 20 paces, & how I wish I'd had that for the last 40 years, smh.

I used to to believe *everything* ppl said & did & told me...yeah, yeah, I'm naive. I'm still naive, but much less so nowadays.

It's in the body language. I watch it all; eyes, hand movements, feet....hell, I can tell when a Walmart employee is lying to me now & I swear, it's a huge gift for me.

This job has also made me much better at standing up for myself & better (some would say too much😆)at confrontation. I used to run away from fights but now I'll meet them head on like a charging bull.

Just hate that it all came SO late in life. Better late than never tho.

I so identify with this! I was 47 when I started escorting.  I wish I knew what I've learnt about people's behaviour and how to stick up for myself years ago! I feel in this last 4 years I have grown so much as a person. 

I was 23 when I first ventured into it. I've stopped and returned a few times.
Now I do it full time.

I was 23 when I first ventured into it. I've stopped and returned a few times.
Now I do it full time.

Hi, how long have you been going full time and are you struggling?
I’m considering the same but scared shitless.