Author Topic: Increasing working hours at risk of Burnout? (Read 2553 times)

AngelEyes · « **on:** 19 October 2011, 08:54:19 am »

At the moment I am working two set days a week. These are regular Incall days and are advertised on AW and my website. I feel that just doing these two days is not generating enough income. I do get work and make money on a good day.

But, as is the nature of this business work is unpredictable so if I have a day where there are not so many clients I have just the one day to fall back on.

The reason for not doing more days is because firstly I personally do not like to see loads of clients in any given week or day as I like to offer a good service and feel like I can't do this if I run my service like I am a milking cow.

I am also very afraid of burnout and then having to take time out as I have overdone it. When I used to work in an agency before going Indie I worked many days in row(or nights rather) at ridiculous hours and it burnt me out.

I know I am Indie, and am my own boss, can set my own hours. Still afraid that many days in a row will have the same outcome. I also don't want to do more hours for the sake of it; but right now I really need more income if I am to have a hope in hell of surviving with outgoings and so on.

Please can someone give me some advice on this? How many days do you ladies do to make it viable? Oh and would doing more days necessarily generate more income anyway?

Lady_Lust_XXX · « **Reply #1 on:** 19 October 2011, 09:34:52 am »

Quote from: Lorissa Charles on 19 October 2011, 08:54:19 am

But, as is the nature of this business work is unpredictable so if I have a day where there are not so many clients I have just the one day to fall back on.

The reason for not doing more days is because firstly I personally do not like to see loads of clients in any given week or day as I like to offer a good service and feel like I can't do this if I run my service like I am a milking cow.

I am also very afraid of burnout and then having to take time out as I have overdone it. When I used to work in an agency before going Indie I worked many days in row(or nights rather) at ridiculous hours and it burnt me out.

I know I am Indie, and am my own boss, can set my own hours. Still afraid that many days in a row will have the same outcome. I also don't want to do more hours for the sake of it; but right now I really need more income if I am to have a hope in hell of surviving with outgoings and so on.

Please can someone give me some advice on this? How many days do you ladies do to make it viable? Oh and would doing more days necessarily generate more income anyway?

How long is a piece of string Lorissa?

Like you say the nature of the business makes it impossible to gauge just how busy we are going to be in any one day.

Because of the vast numbers of WG's nowadays it is not as easy to earn as much as we used to a few years ago.

Many years ago - and even nowadays while touring - it was possible to see 10/12 but in a normal days work at home this figure would be nigh on to impossible .............. unless working in a parlour. I'm talking about Indies.

There is no way anyone else can judge for yourself how often you should work. WG's who have an apartment and pay the rent for the said 7 days a week can work as often as they like without any extra expense but girls who work from hotels have the expense of the hotel on top of the daily expenses. There are so many swings and roundabouts.

Many girls work 7 days a week 24 hours a day and that would totally do my head in and i would most definitely burn out if i was to try and do these hours.

Hope you get some better help here. TC x

xw5 · « **Reply #2 on:** 19 October 2011, 10:32:08 am »

Yes, it depends on what the cost to you of doing another day would be, emotionally as well as financially.

Mellow · « **Reply #3 on:** 19 October 2011, 10:40:32 am »

Try one more day and see how it goes

midlands lady · « **Reply #4 on:** 19 October 2011, 11:03:31 am »

Hi hun,

I work 7 days a week with no set days and just see how it goes really. I've found over the years that putting aside certain days never really works as it's sods law you will get calls on the days you have off!!!
If I'm busy for say 3 days in a row, I take a day off to recover and then it's back on. I find this way I don't get burn out. It's a difficult market at the moment so I find I need to be as flexible as possible to make the income I like....but everyone is different:) Hope this is of use x

Lady_Lust_XXX · « **Reply #5 on:** 19 October 2011, 12:25:24 pm »

It can also depend how long you have been on sites like AW as after a year or so on AW things start to dry up.

Years ago you would be knocking them back ten a penny and still seeing 6/7/8 on every day that you were working - for me it was about 5/6 days a week then. I've cut my days down now for im getting older and want to spend more time with my family. But even on wanting to do that I still dont knock as much work as I used to ... it just aint coming in the same with the larger number of girls coming into the business thinking it is easy money - i wish. I've said it often ............ 3 yrs ago there was approx 300 registered escorts on AW in Scotland. Today when I updated there was 938 which is an increase of 300%+ ...................

So really there is no answer to your question unless you get accommodation you can work from - after all it may not be much more expensive than paying continually for hotels.

ParisB · « **Reply #6 on:** 19 October 2011, 12:39:41 pm »

totally depends on how much you want to earn and how long your prepared to work to earn it and at what cos that is to you but i would say that there are only a few ways to increase your business

increase the hours that you do by at probably at least two days
increase your rates so that you earn more per client
undercut everyone else in your area by droping your rates and do more clients this work for a bit untill everyone else drops there rates and then no one including yourself makes any money

as you mentioned as you only work two days if its quiet on one day you only have the other day to make it up where if your working all week you have the whole week to even it out
if i was working 2days i think i would find it to stressfull no knowing if im gonna make what i want at least working all week i dont really worry i would have to be a really crap hooker due to the fact that i have been around for a long time not to make what i want and more working 5 days a week

98 percent of the time the more your availble the more you will make that just the laws of average
if your only availble 2 days a week then it unlikely you will make as much as someone working 5 or 7 days a week

i tend to work min of 5 days mon -fri when at home and then every day when im touring 9am till 10pm occasionally later if i am booked and sometimes earlier as well my down time to relax are really when im at home working at when im touring

As others have said how long is a piece of string i tend to work pretty hard save my money for when i want to take time of and chill out or go on holiday

  I would find it a dam site harder working 9-5 somewhere in an office, than what i would do working at home say 10 - 8 every day seeing 3-4 clients a day or touring and seeing a more clients and would probably burn out quicker in the office job than in the normal job

  So if im working at home and not touring i would rather work 5-days mon - fri 11 -7 pm with weekends optional ( ie if someone calls and it fits in with my plans or its a regular client then i will go over to my flat and often find i can pick up extra booking while im there )

and how do you define burnout - its something ive never really encountered if im honest in fact im far more likely to feel exhausted and knackered if im not busy than if im quite or steady

if you have kids it might be worth doing what i use to do when my son was little - work pretty dam hard term time and then reduce the hours holidays
kids are allways off on bloody holidays so you find your only working sometime a max of say 6 -8 weeks before your off for 2 week or shorter days for two weeks

ParisB · « **Reply #7 on:** 19 October 2011, 12:46:34 pm »

oh god please, i remember those days, dont mention them you will make me cry. i was one of the first in my area to even have a website techi little geek that i am i could see the potential of them even back then

my friend and i had a website each from 2002/2003 and it was a licence to print money , like you say you could it was easy to double figures client wise and i dont even think adultwork was up then, just punternet and punterlink and a few other website

prices were higher, and loads more clients out there it was great untill 2007 /2008

Quote from: Lady_Lust_XXX on 19 October 2011, 12:25:24 pm

It can also depend how long you have been on sites like AW as after a year or so on AW things start to dry up.

Years ago you would be knocking them back ten a penny and still seeing 6/7/8 on every day that you were working - for me it was about 5/6 days a week then. I've cut my days down now for im getting older and want to spend more time with my family. But even on wanting to do that I still dont knock as much work as I used to ... it just aint coming in the same with the larger number of girls coming into the business thinking it is easy money - i wish. I've said it often ............ 3 yrs ago there was approx 300 registered escorts on AW in Scotland. Today when I updated there was 938 which is an increase of 300%+ ...................

So really there is no answer to your question unless you get accommodation you can work from - after all it may not be much more expensive than paying continually for hotels.

RR · « **Reply #8 on:** 21 October 2011, 09:15:00 am »

From my understanding, the recession pushed a lot of girls into this as a temporary measure. I was one of those girls, although like others the high (for me) amount of money and comfortable lifestyle swung it to a longer period for me. I worked full time, took bookings every day - but I'm not the kind of person who was seeing several clients a day. Its not my thing but more than that my persona is very Marmite like, both by nature and intentionally. Some days I could be insanely busy, tours were quite busy for a while, other days I could be totally dead to the point I'd panic over covering my living costs. It was THAT that made me burn out totally, not the actual nature of the work. I'm a bit of a control freak and the unstable income didn't sit well with me.

I quit, but I missed elements of my working life. I have a 'grown up' job now to do with my degree but I don't mind working part time whilst I'm single. It was touring I missed more - I enjoyed those deliciously hedonistic 3 day escapes than I did having to rush home post lecture to get ready in 20 minutes for a booking.

Guess it depends on your free time and incall availability - if you're paying to use hotels/apartments, I totally understand the reluctance to spend any more money if you don't know you'll make it back. If however, thats not a concern, then don't be afraid to spread it out a little more throughout the week. You can get burned out by the financial stress of self employment too.

ParisB · « **Reply #9 on:** 21 October 2011, 10:39:46 am »

i think your right lots of women who would have never in a million years went into this 3 years ago ( i still blame bell bloody de jour and billy piper which glamourise this combine it with loss of normal jobs and the credit crunch and there you have it
i like the highs and the lows though although i new what you mean by panicking and wonder if you will cover your cost thats why i dont do short tours as i find there to much room for a quiet day if you only there for 3 days where as if your touring for two weeks if you get the odd quite day it dont matter as much
and even though i save and save load i still worry so i hate to think what i would be like if i didnt have my savings

Quote from: RR on 21 October 2011, 09:15:00 am

From my understanding, the recession pushed a lot of girls into this as a temporary measure. I was one of those girls, although like others the high (for me) amount of money and comfortable lifestyle swung it to a longer period for me. I worked full time, took bookings every day - but I'm not the kind of person who was seeing several clients a day. Its not my thing but more than that my persona is very Marmite like, both by nature and intentionally. Some days I could be insanely busy, tours were quite busy for a while, other days I could be totally dead to the point I'd panic over covering my living costs. It was THAT that made me burn out totally, not the actual nature of the work. I'm a bit of a control freak and the unstable income didn't sit well with me.

I quit, but I missed elements of my working life. I have a 'grown up' job now to do with my degree but I don't mind working part time whilst I'm single. It was touring I missed more - I enjoyed those deliciously hedonistic 3 day escapes than I did having to rush home post lecture to get ready in 20 minutes for a booking.

Guess it depends on your free time and incall availability - if you're paying to use hotels/apartments, I totally understand the reluctance to spend any more money if you don't know you'll make it back. If however, thats not a concern, then don't be afraid to spread it out a little more throughout the week. You can get burned out by the financial stress of self employment too.

RR · « **Reply #10 on:** 21 October 2011, 12:45:51 pm »

Quote from: ParisB on 21 October 2011, 10:39:46 am

i think your right lots of women who would have never in a million years went into this 3 years ago ( i still blame bell bloody de jour and billy piper which glamourise this combine it with loss of normal jobs and the credit crunch and there you have it
i like the highs and the lows though although i new what you mean by panicking and wonder if you will cover your cost thats why i dont do short tours as i find there to much room for a quiet day if you only there for 3 days where as if your touring for two weeks if you get the odd quite day it dont matter as much
and even though i save and save load i still worry so i hate to think what i would be like if i didnt have my savings

I envy you being able to do the LONG tours, Paris! I'd be too nervous of losing financially. And drawing attention to myself as well. I do wonder how the industry will be when we inevitably come out of this slump, I mean I was one of those girls who would NEVER have considered it. Casual sex never bothered me (had plenty of it) but I had a fixation on the 'p' word and plus my old job in an office, I overlooked the red light district. So to me that was pay for play, watching the street girls. Obviously its nothing like that in reality but its not quite as glamorous as Billie Piper (you need to wash UNDER the skin too mate!!!) either. Saying that I actually get a kick/buzz out of escorting, but enough to keep it my dirty little part time activity. Wonder how many girls will be the same?

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