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Aella
@Aella_Girl
One downside of sex work, especially online sex work, is getting 'trapped' in it. Sex work often allows people to flexibly make much more money for less work. If you want to quit, you have to go back to a much lower-paying job, with a ton of hours, and that can feel unacceptable.
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Aella
@Aella_Girl
So often people might be getting burned out or hate it or be suffering emotional damage, but then go - well, what's my other option? Work at a minimum wage job? For forty hours/week? Maybe they have a kid, or health issues, and so they don't feel they have a real option to leave.
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Justin Cohen
@trippdup
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@Aella_Girl
Curious framing. What quality makes it a "trap" and not "the best bad decision available?" To me, trap implies that they would have been better off never starting down that road in the first place. It doesn't sound like that's necessarily the case in this hypothetical.
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Aella
@Aella_Girl
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@trippdup
local minima? it's possible spending 5+ years in another profession will end up with total greater happiness than they're in now, but it's difficult to see over the hump.
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Keenan
@KeenanMiller7
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@Aella_Girl
Truck driving is the same way ... I work 140 hours a week ... but I also make 2500 to 3000 weekly . I’m going to have to learn a better trade to feel good about quitting this
Kevin
@Intrinsic29
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@Aella_Girl
If I were doing it, I think I would try to make as much as I could as quickly as I could then try to retire or at least get enough income to go to college fulltime. Haven't thought it through too deeply, though.
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@buttsexrespectr
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@Aella_Girl
This reminds me of "Helen of Troy does countertop dancing": "Get some self-respect and a day job. Right. And minimum wage, and varicose veins, just standing in one place for eight hours behind a glass counter bundled up to the neck, instead of naked as a meat sandwich."
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@EmFan96
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@Aella_Girl
What I find more interesting are the highly educated SW'ers that remain simply because their earning potential is so much greater despite stigma, etc.
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Dystopia Wizard
@DystopiaWizard
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@Aella_Girl
Isn't this true of basically any job? Is the concern that it's literally too good to willingly give up? I know we hedonically adapt our expectations, but this really does feel like a "good problem to have".
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