Emily,
I don't wish to be rude but I have had this conversation with you already. I and others keep on trying to give you advice but you do not seem to take it on board.
I will be of no use to you with regards to long term advice as I have not long started out on this myself, I am still very much in the early days but I have tried with you all the same, I have failed, obviously, in helping you out as you do not appear to be listening to me you keep asking the same things over and over again.
I believe your at university Emily? I think you have mentioned it before? Would that be Swansea University and if so, what are you studying?
I am interested to know if you live with your parents as you are in Neath and most students at Uni stay in Sketty/Uplands area of Swansea in the bedsits/flats and house shares there. From Neath to Swansea Uni takes a train and 2 different bus routes, how do you cope with that?
If you are living with your parents how will you manage incalls? I seem to remember you do not drive so an agency is possibly your best option.
It is very much a hard slog starting up as an independent right now, people are getting careful with their cash. An agency could possibly find you more work than you could find yourself therefore making their fees seem more acceptable. You could try for block bookings and get a hotel room for a day?
I still feel though, if you are determined to do this and you have every right to no matter what my opinion on it is - my opinion is you should not be doing it, but, if your determined to, I strongly suggest you look into parlour work as you will easily get a train from Neath to Swansea and there is a good parlour right by the train station, at the least please go with an agency where you will have to check in with them before and after each booking. I think you perhaps need a lot of guidance, I would deeply worry about you being out there alone with no backup at all.
You need to watch your pronunciation and spelling and cut down on the 'text' talk as well, especially if your bloody determined to go down the independent route as you will have to word you website, nobody will do that for you, it is very difficult at times to understand what your trying to say as you have no structure to your sentences, it is very confusing for a person to read.
I am not trying to be horrible to you Emily, I am just slightly exasperated with you as time and again you have been offered advice and words of wisdom from others on here far more in the know than I am and time and again you have come back and asked the same things, it's as if you ignore what is said to you completely.
I am sorry but I will not buddy you as frankly, I do not think you should be doing this line of work until you mature a bit and I do not want to get in the situation where I am sat here worrying that you have not got back to me, knowing all the while, that everything I say to you, you either do not listen or ignore.
Please, again as I have said this before, give VERY CAREFUL consideration to what it is your wanting to do here as it's a tough world out there and you have got to have your wits about you in order to be safe, really Emily, I mean that.
Jo