I could write a pedantic reply but I won't. And we certainly don't need another thread where pooners tell SP what their lives are like and how much they make. So I offer you this.
1. Get a sex change
2. Go sell your new pussy
3. Come back in 3 years to PERB and write the honest truth about how things went.
Perhaps I wasn't clear in the post.
It is a business.
So I say to you:
1. Go start a busuness
2. Go sell tgat business
3. Come back in 3 years to PERB and write the honest truth about how things went
Lots if 'horror stories' from typical business owners too.
Most of the time I hear these sob stories about the SP industry its all chalked up to someone trying to make 300/hour without know how to make 300/hour.
This is what we here in the sob stories. And here is tge solution.
Oh someone tried to pimp me - call the police
Oh someone didn't want to pay - call the police
Oh someone got aggressive - call the police
Oh I got a stalker - call the police, use business phone, use business location.
I cant call the police - pay your escort license fee, then the police HAVE to respond.
Alot of these you could just hire a bouncer for and only call police for serious situations.
Oh the client was smelly/disgusting - refer client to your webpage with the visitor expectations section.
I can go on but what it comes down to is that this is a business. And business have expenses to run properly. So expenses eat away at that 300 pretty quickly. Which means you might only be net 40-60 per hour. Still higher than most jobs. So go work at an agency that already handles this stuff.
Now, if you put in the effort, you do lots of work yourself, you vet clients to save on bouncer, rent, other problems. Ya, you can rake in 10grand per month.
So not much sympathy here for people who want to make lots of money but dont even want to pick up a book and learn how.