Personally, it's a case of not having all my eggs in one basket. I had a professional career for many years and built up a lot of knowledge and expertise that I would not like to go to waste. But as a freelancer now, work is uncertain.

The same goes for the escort work - I think we all experience periods of feast and famine - so it's good not to be 100% reliant on it. Also, at the moment, I'm able to turn down work and only see a few clients each week, so that I enjoy the job. I think if I felt compelled to see more purely for financial reasons, I'd be in danger of becoming burned out and jaded. I guess I'm trying to play the long game.

I have another job outside escorting for a few reasons. Massive one is cover for family and friends who don' know- I'm close to my family and they would get very worried and suspicious about it. Second is so I don't have to do either full time- because escorting involves a lot of making yourself do stuff (working on your profile, emails, advertising, etc), if I'm not very well (I am disabled) it can be very hard to make myself do those things, whereas the three days a week I have to go into work I don't have a choice if I'm not well (and if I'm depressed then I usually feel a bit better for making myself go and do stuff, if that makes sense?).

I don't want to do this for the rest of my life, I'm doing it to help me get through postgraduate education, so I also can't really afford to have massive gaps of employment on my CV either.

I have a full time 40 hour a week job because escorting is far too unreliable where I live. Some weeks I can earn a small fortune from it, and other weeks I won't get any bookings.
I prefer having stability to know I can always pay my rent, bills, food and spending money. The extra money I make from escorting goes on savings or treats for myself