I grew up low class, and expected my life to be hard - only I didn’t process it as “hard”; it was just how life *was.* I was going to have to spend the rest of my life doing minimum-wage physically-hard labor, and then getting pregnant. That was the plan, but more importantly-
I worked hard jobs before I went into sex work. I spent a year at a factory on an assembly line with ~55hr work weeks. My first job was $7.25/hr.