What's your average weekly pay on AW?

[Strawberryblonde]

Thank you for your response so far. It does help me think about things more!

A little backstory; I started cam roughly in October, however, haven't really focused on it 100% until these past few months. 3 months ago I worked my socks off, day and night, and managed to make roughly 12k credits or so (£8.5k after fees & AW deductions) in one month. The most I have made in one day is roughly around £1k. As I mentioned in my original post, I haven't failed to make at least £750 a week so far if I just work normal hours everyday. Mind, I also work during my periods.

The thing about my internship offer is that, if successful, I would be guaranteed a graduate job in accounting. I'd most likely have to work 9am until 6pm and would be very stressed. Maybe I could make more than I do on cam in the long-term (the starting salary is mid 20k and increases annually) and there is great opportunity for expansion, however, is the stress and working long hours at the office (with someone bossying you around) really worth it?

Should I take advantage of cam now, whilst I am young and my body still serves me, and once it no longer pays well or I am unhappy, then get a "normal" job, or should I just focus on my finance career now? I would still graduate with an Economics & Finance degree and I could fall on that to help me get a basic job, once I can no longer cam? But, I have also seen many women who are older who work on AW so I don't see why I would be limited by age in any way.

Similarly, my parents, my partner and close family know what I do and are supportive of me, which helps tonnes! Cam doesn't really affect me mentally and I only have a handful of trusting friends, therefore I am not worried about my reputation getting tarnished. I have tough skin anyway.

Is there a reason you stuck with cam and have you experienced working a normal job and switching from or back to cam? Please share if you have experience of both working and cam and which one you chose and why. Maybe I am being naive or blind-sighted...

I was an Escort until CV-19, I took up cam after trying to get back into my other skill freelance but it wasn't taking off. I have experienece of retraining and working, I didn't put the sex work down and there came a point at which it was impossible and unethical to continue with both. Being faced with 2 passions, only one which paid I put down the other work. Of course when CV-19 came along I wondered if I'd made the wrong decision, I put some effort in getting that back first but no avail although I've got myself into a position where taking on that type of work if it comes up is now possible.

Based on my experience I would say get the experience in the other job, I didn't use my degree because I finished uni with serious issues more interested in partying, drink and drugs. That degree did allow me to go into the retraining, but if I could go back I would use the degree. This doesn't mean I don't enjoy sex work, and it's taught me a lot about running a business, being self-employed, marketing etc and it's used some skills from the workplaces I have been in. The bigger the gap the more explaining or lying you may have to do, employers will discriminate I have had it done to me - even during retraining which was just tiring and pretty awful. Some of whom knew I had gone out of my way.

This isn't to say you can't have a career in cam, sex work and earn enough to retire on early - it's just life doesn't always work out as you plan. When I was your age I thought I'd have x,y,z by the time I was 30, at 30 I was in a very different situation.

Can be drink, drugs, partner or anything totally random.

If I could go back I would have taken a vocational qualification in accounting, probably AAT combined with a job then gone on to accountancy training. I'm very good with numbers, still can be - this was a strong point both at school then at uni the first time. Of course I might still have turned into problem drinker, in fact the signs were already there so can't predict!