I am thinking of quitting my full time job to escort full time... Due to my "normal job", I am currently only able to escort on evenings and weekends but fitting work and escort bookings in is proving to be a pain... And tiring! I HATE my job, there is no real progression so I won't feel like I'm throwing away a career and I'm only on around £1300 a month. I feel like I'm wasting my life in a yet another dead end job that I have no interest in. My only concerns are the jump from a regular definate income to an irregular one. I'd also have to lie to my family. Have any of you girls made this jump and if so please tell me how you found it. I feel so stuck at the moment with what to do.

I found myself in your position a year ago. My daytime job was minimum wage, 4am starts and working under management that treated us like crap. I turned down bookings everyday to go into a workplace that was making me miserable.  It was risky but in the end I decided to take the gamble and quit the day job. It’s the best thing I ever did ! I’m now my own boss and can do the hours that I want to do and when I want to do them. I love the freedom it gives me. I worked out that it was only doing another couple of clients a week to cover my daytime wage and that would mean I wasn’t losing out. The downside is the gap on your CV and family and friends asking what you now do for work , which can be tricky. My working life maybe a bit limited due to my age but I feel I have enough regular clients to see me through for another few years yet and then I’ll re-evaluate my whole situation then but for now it’s the happiest I have ever been for many years. It’s a risk I know but maybe it’s a risk worth taking . Good luck with your decision :-) xx

I quit my job beginning of this year, I love my job but so much issues and challenges at work that really stress me out. Since I started full time I have more time for myself and can do me. Is like being an Entrepreneur and have to keep all records and save for the Raining day. I wish I had make this decision a long time ago but the uncertainty of this job just make you scared but to be honest it's good. I work 5 days a week and having the weekend to myself. So far its been good.
If you can take a career break for a while might be a good start to see how it is
With Brexit it's just creating Uncertainty to the economic in general.

If you are worried about what you woild tell your family or gaps on your CV set yourself up as self employed. You can do a short course in something your are vaguely interested in and build your 'empire' around that. I'd go for something you can do 'mobile' like a nail technician, spray tan, make up artist, massage therapist or  maybe something you could work from home like website designer  etc might be best to choose something that your family members wouldnt ask you to do for them though lol

This is good advice but bear in mind you will be full or part time self employed and that involves paying tax and claiming expenses. Realistic expenses will be very different for some of the above roles compared to escorting! Massage would undoubtedly be the closest in terms of the items you might need to be claiming for! Of course if you already escort part time then you'll be declaring your income anyway...

Thanks choc, you do have to earn over a certain amount before you have to pay tax bit I'm all for declaring as it covers those gaps and if you want to buy a house, car, save up, pay into a pension etc you need to have a declared income otherwise you will be earning money but not be able to do anything to future proof your life x

That doesn’t really make any sense. Telling a white lie to family and friends has nothing to do with what’s on your tax return.
You can have whatever you want on your tax return as long as it’s soley for your business. So if you want to do a nail course and claim it as an expense you can, not all business ventures create income or you can simply say you were going to become a nail technician but then it wasn’t really working out so you tried something else.

You could just say you’re working for angencies on temporary roles here and there.
As for a gap on CV, you can make up any old tosh. You were a paid blogger, YouTuber, dog breeder, eBay seller,  your own cleaning business etc, all self employed roles so it would be normal to have the gap.

You are right, I was getting a little confused between what someone 'tells' people and what they might 'actually' be doing in terms of being realistic and being able to claim for what they spend. Of course, tell people what you want! Chloe I've worked for other people and for myself and personally I'm much happier working for myself. But for me the perks of being my own boss outweigh the disadvantages, that's not the same for everybody and it depends on your personal situation.

As others have said you could in theory make the same money escorting as you are now but in less time, and then perhaps find something like a part time job you enjoy or even volunteering to put on your CV, you can tell others the volunteering is paid if you want to.

Gina G I'm not the tax police lol or HMRC but all income should be declared, both self employed and employed. There is a minimum you can earn without paying tax but a tax return still needs to be done for all self employed income. There are threads about it on here 

I couldn't agree more about having some money behind you and planning ahead. If you have a few months money saved you don't need to worry about your bills. Also you won't be tempted to do bookings you are not sure about or services you don't want to do.

If you don't have any money put aside it's worth thinking about. And also another skill, sideline etc can be exceptionally useful for many reasons!

You are right, I was getting a little confused

Gina G I'm not the tax police lol or HMRC but all income should be declared, both self employed and employed. There is a minimum you can earn without paying tax but a tax return still needs to be done for all self employed income. There are threads about it on here 

I'm a little confused on why you are saying this to me... where did I say anything about not filling in a tax return??
If you go back and re read what I actually said which was " I'm all for declaring"
I don't need to see threads on here about it as I have been self employed, paying tax and filling in tax returns for the last ten years. I also do payroll for my staff in my none sex work business

Edit: besides this thread has nothing to do with if she pays tax or not, what she tells her family and a cover story for giving up her job