I screen everyone on the phone for safety reasons (like we should all do), I don't ask for their occupation because a)that would be quite intrusive and b) their occupation has nothing to do with my safety. Nice people come from all walks of life: from builders to CEO's (although I do find from personal experience that these last group tend to be on the self-entitled side of the spectrum), the problem is that I do attract a certain "niche" (usually the office, the city crowd and the tourists). Most probably it's the way I market myself or the wording on my site, my rates or god knows what, but it certainly has been an issue lately. Unfortunately for me I don't get the builders and the key workers (and I say "unfortunately" because I really like these guys) but... they don;t call me
Pre-covid this was not a problem but with no tourism and everybody working from home my business has been hit more adversely than other ladies with a different business model. On the other hand I'm aware this pandemic has changed the economy, eg: my local bike store that was always empty nowadays has a long queu and have doubled their staff whereas the super busy italian restaurant around the corner is now doing pizza deliveries and have had to downsize their staff to a third. We (the people on this forum) as independent businesses have been affected in very different ways. I was just trying to point out how in my case have been affected. No need for putting down people.
I wasn't criticising Ana, I just couldn't work out why you were describing 'key workers' as if they were a big homogenous group when they're all so different. I would be completely stuffed without them money-wise and I just misunderstood your post
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It won't be your rates (I guarantee the scaffolders in the square mile will be taking home more than most of the wage slaves in the suits - a lot more) so I really don't know? I love a builder, meself
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And yes, my amount of time wasters has sky rocketed. I believe that's something we all have in common here independently of our business model. ![Huh? ???](https://saafe.info/main/Smileys/classic/huh.gif)
I'm getting loads of the spam texts from people with shitty rooms and apartments to let - I put my number back up on AW at the start of the week so I know that's it, but it's getting right on my tits. I would have thought the ones that were any good would be full given that the hotels are shut, so these must be the absolute dregs.