Author Topic: Your education (Read 11813 times)

MissFlint · « **Reply #30 on:** 14 June 2016, 10:55:23 pm »

I have a BA (hons) and a second degree in another subject. I do worry about what I'm going to put on my CV if I ever leave escorting. I can't exactly get references from clients!

Riverprice · « **Reply #31 on:** 14 June 2016, 11:32:41 pm »

I am university degree educated. Istarted whilst at college doing phone sex lines. But escorted during university xxx

Naughtyforty · « **Reply #32 on:** 14 June 2016, 11:37:17 pm »

Quote from: Shewolf on 14 June 2016, 09:14:50 pm

Yes, I don't think doing sex work is linked to amount of or ability to gain qualifications...I think it's cos women get into it to get more money then get hooked on the apparent ease of making it this way (even though I don't think it's easy at all really...it just takes up less of your precious time to make the same amount).

I left school, went to college HND and hated my job choice after a few years. then about 12 years ago I started retraining in a completly different field. I love my civvie job now but make ?12 an hour. Overtime is not paid at a higher rate. I work an 8 hour overtime shift and with tax, ni and a higher student loan payment get left with roughly 57. And a precious day off gone. Compared to one hour booking a week minus expenses! Its a no brainer. And if I get a few bookings I'm laughing.
But yeah its harder in a different way. Emotionally stressful, who is coming through the door? Dealing with tw.
Sometimes I wish I had started this fulltime 20 years ago. I've got loads of qualification's and a student loan bill that would still choke a horse! What would of been the better choice? I wonder

Caledonia · « **Reply #33 on:** 15 June 2016, 06:50:18 am »

From 10 to 16 I hardly went to school due to bullying, left after Standard Grades (which I did OK in but not brilliant).

Then started an access course at the local college when I was 20, but had to leave after 1 month due to personal circumstances.

Volunteered for a well known charity for 4 years.

I am now due to start a NQ in Business and then if pass that I might apply to do an HND.

I do believe my few years volunteering has helped me with dealing and interacting with clients and I probably would have struggled if I hadn't done it.

Lushblossom · « **Reply #34 on:** 15 June 2016, 06:57:54 am »

I have a degree. Plus a piano diploma (not that that's relevant!). I have also studied Legal Executive/Law for a while.

It used to bother me in the beginning that I had qualifications and was doing this sort of work. Now I am at peace with it. It helped to learn that many others had had a good education and it isn't just a job for those who lack qualifications etc.

That's why Saafe is such a great site as we get to hear about others.

MsDee · « **Reply #35 on:** 15 June 2016, 08:42:37 am »

I have my Bachelors in Psychology and I have a Bachelors in Greek and Roman Mythology the second due too me being bored while married for the first few years. I then went on to do my exams in Project Management and got licensed and worked for 10 years for a large pharmaceutical company, it was after a nervous breakdown and leaving my husband that I moved in with a friend who did this for a living.

She had a working house and I took to it like a duck to water, left my PM job after 2 months of doing this part time, it helped me to get stronger emotionally and I was happier within myself which in turn helped me to fall pregnant.

sultress000 · « **Reply #36 on:** 15 June 2016, 09:19:27 am »

I have a very good and desirable job in civvie world, degree level education. If I had to do it full time I would have a breakdown its so appallingly stressful and exhausting. This enables me to just about still enjoy the bits of my job I originally got into it for.
I feel so sorry for my colleagues.

emily11 · « **Reply #37 on:** 15 June 2016, 10:44:13 am »

Yep, I have my Bachelors and half my Masters. I stick with sex work though because a normal office job is just not something I can deal with long term. I need the flexibility/short hours.

TrashAzn · « **Reply #38 on:** 15 June 2016, 04:08:40 pm »

Done two years on a Bachelors degree one more to go. After that will see if I stay in education I'll probably keep working depending on schedule but I plan to quit when I'm done with University. All prostitutes I've met personally irl have been students there are quite a few of them and it makes sense due to high costs and debt plus the difficulty of getting a decent paying job and having spare time to work on studies.

Shewolf · « **Reply #39 on:** 15 June 2016, 05:22:15 pm »

Quote from: Lushblossom on 15 June 2016, 06:57:54 am

It used to bother me in the beginning that I had qualifications and was doing this sort of work. Now I am at peace with it. It helped to learn that many others had had a good education and it isn't just a job for those who lack qualifications etc.

I wouldn't feel ashamed in any way. I think the women on here, regardless of qualifications, are bloody clever cookies...as they have done the following:

'The whore is despised by the hypocritical world because she has made a realistic assessment of her assets and does not have to rely on fraud to make a living. In an area of human relations where fraud is regular practice between the sexes, her honesty is regarded with a mocking wonder'.
Cato the Younger (95-46 BCE)

katrina · « **Reply #40 on:** 15 June 2016, 09:56:34 pm »

Quote from: Shewolf on 15 June 2016, 05:22:15 pm

'The whore is despised by the hypocritical world because she has made a realistic assessment of her assets and does not have to rely on fraud to make a living. In an area of human relations where fraud is regular practice between the sexes, her honesty is regarded with a mocking wonder'.
Cato the Younger (95-46 BCE)

Excellent quote

Lushblossom · « **Reply #41 on:** 16 June 2016, 12:05:11 pm »

Yes we should all be applauded for having the bottle and nounce.

ghostworld · « **Reply #42 on:** 16 June 2016, 12:40:46 pm »

Quote from: Mirror on 14 June 2016, 08:37:35 pm

Quote from: Shewolf on 14 June 2016, 08:19:59 pm
I've got a degree, post grad degree and various other quals. Never really got me anywhere. Since starting escorting I have money in my purse for the first time in 20 years (single parent). That's UK society for you.

In my case it was a result of me losing my way during my degree, went in all guns blazing as mildly (couple of years older) mature student, motivated, by the end all I wanted to do was party, drink and take drugs. Hardly studied in final year, was more interested in the next party, didn't get myself onto any graduate schemes, took any old job locally, ended up in debt, drinking and partying more........

Sex work gave me time and space to pull up my socks, get into recovery and retrain. Now I don't want to get out of it, but I do have other passions and I've got to give them a chance. I'm also really proud to have turned my life around. For a while it wasn't looking very good.

Are you me?

UK-Milf · « **Reply #43 on:** 16 June 2016, 02:59:28 pm »

Quote from: CandyGirl on 14 June 2016, 04:49:03 pm

So are we all drop outs or are there ladies here with PhDs in rocket science

Yes,,, quite a few woman here have studied at PhD level, myself included and quite a few are what you term "drop outs",,,. I spent many years in academia before working in industry. We all have different reasons for coming to sex work. Like many woman here, I began sex work to support my children as a single parent. I needed to balance the books. A simple case of economic necessity. It was a choice. And is really the same choice a person existing in a totally unsatisfying minimum wage job also takes when she / he chooses sex work.

Over the years I've met many sex workers. In my experience there is little correlation between educational attainment and success as a sex worker. What is necessary is emotional intelligence. The sex workers I have met tend to have that by the bucket load. Some of the most considerate, well informed, intelligent and articulate sex workers I have met left school with very few qualifications. But they all have grown considerable emotional intelligence.

Shewolf · « **Reply #44 on:** 16 June 2016, 09:12:05 pm »

I agree with that. I think a good sex worker will be skilled in being (or appearing to be) mentally and physically 'present' for the client. That takes skill. They have to have very good communication skills.

See also the main SAAFE.info site for more Support And Advice For Escorts

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