How did you start escorting? Be honest!
Sorry if this thread has been done! Hard to find some threads by only typing in a few key words..
I'll start...
As we all know.. Cali sucks for dancing! I use to think making $250 was a GOOD night when I first started dancing. (Poor me :'() Then money just got worse & worse until I couldn't make house fee anymore. There would be 30+ girls every night in this tiny, tiny club. As I was crying in the bathroom one night, this girl walks in & tells me to come escort with her. She "works" with this guy (pimp/manager/whatever). My life changed forever! I never ever knew this world existed, even when I was dancing. I was so innocent. He ended up being my manager.. I would have to give him 40%. YES, I was young & naive.. broke & desperate. We used Humaniplex .. It's just like backpage to me. Why beautiful girls in Cali want to charge $200 saddens me. :-\ BUT I was once that girl.. because I knew no better and was taught no better. I left him after a few months and became independent. Only after he fucked up my great credit with a payday loan scam and threatened the hell out of me for wanting to leave. I made tons of money because I was cheap with a gfe menu :( I moved out of Cali and my eyes were opened! I doubled my rate and still made tons of money. Also, finding out girls were making 1k-2k a night at strip clubs I was aghast. I would say if you've never worked/moved outside your state, it's a must! You learn a lot.
What's your story? :)
Re: How did you start escorting? Be honest!
My story...well, I was in a long relationship, for almost 7 years. We broke up, and I was depressed. Once I figured that we probably weren't ever going to get back together, I started thinking, 'well, why not try and make a little more money however I want since I can do whatever I want to do from now on?' So, I began reading everything that I could find on the internet about escorting. I just had no idea where to begin, like how to get a client, where to post, what to say in an ad or even to a potential client. I started answering personals on craigslist and I would always get close to meeting someone and chicken out. I got scammed(for $30 and some prescription meds, haha, long story) by an 'escort agency' who I contacted at one point to try to get work. I got rejected by tons of agencies because I am kinda heavily tattooed, and then, finally, one 'agency' called me back and I got 'hired'.
It was a girlfriend and a boyfriend(he kind of had a pimp mentality), and they had me living there and taking calls. They would just come knock on my door and tell me when I had a call. We charged $200 and I would keep half for each call. I had no idea what was going on for like a month. But now, I'm independent. That's pretty much my story :)
Re: How did you start escorting? Be honest!
Im so glad you both were brave enough to leave. My story is very similar. I got fired for my home club where I was making tons of money because the GM was harassing me for more money and I told him no. I was devastated and all the other clubs in my city are horrible.
I had met a guy and it was all good and great at first. When I got fired I called him and told him I didn't not what I was going to do. He told me could help me make money and it turned into a pimp/boyfriend situation. I stayed with him for 8 months and was giving him 50%. Every time I left he would threaten me. I finally did and couldn't be happier
Re: How did you start escorting? Be honest!
I started out working in the Nevada brothels, mostly out of curiosity and a desire to make extra money. My husband and I were already swingers so infidelity wasn't an issue and we watched a documentary on Nevada prostitution and I thought, "I could do that." So I gave it a shot.
It didn't take me long to realize they took way too much of my money and I was sick of being away from my family so often so I found a great agency in Vegas. They took 25% of the base rate and nothing more and handled all calls and screening. I loved working for them. It was a bummer when they got busted.
Then I went independent. I managed to keep my best clients from the agency so that helped.
Re: How did you start escorting? Be honest!
I've been doing it for a while now but here goes. I actually started dancing at 17 illegally. I was young and dumb and loved money. The club I was working at was known as an extras club so of course I was doing that because I thought it was pretty much what you did.
Another girl at the club was an escort and she knew I was underage when I started but once I turned 18 she came up to me and asked if I'd ever thought of escorting. She knew I was doing extras in the club and told me I'd make better money OTC.
So she took me on a few calls and teamed me up with another girl and for the first couple months it was me and another girl always teaming up for a client. Overall I enjoyed it because I loved money so much. I had always been very sexual so that part was not a problem. I just wasn't crazy about being with certain guys but over time you learn to get over it.
Not long after I went solo and was pretty busy. Over the years I bounced from agency to agency but in my mid 20's I started going Indy because I had build up so much client base.