To take a job as a 'sexting' operative

[LegoInTheDyson]

I've been looking for jobs I can do from home that will fit around two small children. A quick Google search has come up with a couple of possibilities including sex line operative.

I can't talk dirty on demand without laughing my head off but they have vacancies for text operatives. Basically you log in, receive a text from someone wanting to chat to one of the fake personas advertised by the company, and reply in character. I could do that easily.

The company I found is called LiveLines UK, they'll pay 5p per text and 10p per picture message (pictures are of the persona, not me). The only issue is that they want a commitment of 20 hours a week so I'm trying to find a company who will let me do less than that to begin with so I can do it while the DCs are asleep or out.

DH isn't bothered by it he's even offered to help me with replies as it's impersonal, there's no actual physical contact, and it's an act. It suits me as it fits round the children and I can work in my pyjamas.

Is there anything I haven't considered? Anyone got any experience of this work?

It is below minimum wage, you're self employed.

It isn't a con.

You can't cut and paste it's actually pretty difficult trying to keep up an act when there's 20 other operatives texting as the same person.

That includes one night shift of 12-6am a week. That's the commitment they want for the phones and you text whilst you're between calls. They don't actually have people that just text.

A couple of companies do but one I know of won't even pay you anything if you don't send something like 5000 texts a week.

Evoke but they aren't recruiting at the moment I've heard.

Hi Guys,

I was just wondering if anyone had made money through Live Line

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Sounds like a mega laugh, go for it!

The auto-correct howlers would be priceless.

My mum works for a company where people ring and get their tarot cards read. For a while, she did text messaging as an add on. I would just like to make it clear that it was not sexting, it was tarot and psychic type stuff!! She was getting 10p per reply (her reply had to be 2 texts in length). She gave up very quickly because it just wasn't worth it. She wasn't getting loads of texts and it was very labour intensive. Think about doing some of the things that the other posters have suggested.

That's a 130 texts per hour just to reach the minimum wage!!!!!

From 2012 to 2015 in just a few posts...

i say give it a go and see how it pans out for you, some enjoy it and make money and others don't enjoy it and make next to nothing. i used to work on the chat lines many moons ago and i enjoyed it, mind you i worked from a 'call centre' and not from home so in between calls us girls would swap tips and stories, i have never laughed so much in a job since the tax-free income was very much appreciated and whilst not a fortune it was better than nothing. plus, it gives the creative imagination a good workout - something my creative writing hobby has greatly benefited from!

darn it aridane - i didn't notice the op's posting date! meh!

I can never understand why some people decide to search for and resurrect such old threads.

I always presume they found the thread through googling a related question or phrase and didn't check the date on the OP before replying to it.

Gruntfuttock - because so many posters reply "this has been asked before, you should search before asking". As someone did on this very thread earlier!

I did it for a few months when i was a student. I'm pretty sure it was the same company. I had to have a phone interview and an induction on how to use the online program.
Basically you log in to the system, there are texts waiting and you just click on them to reply. You get a little profile at the side of who you are supposed to be responding as. There will be lots of people responding to the same people so you do need to double check the previous conversation or it can start to get silly. Some of it is sexual but quite a lot are very lonely people who genuinely believe they have met someone special who likes them. I had to stop doing it as it was actually making me feel quite bad about what i was doing. Not saying don't do it but just go cautiously.
Oh and i worked about 30 hours a month and normally got paid £200-£250 a month. The time of day you work does affect how many messages are waiting, obviously there are less people texting in during the day and more after around 10pm. Also mine used to autofill and i'd just change a few words so i could reply to 3-4 a minute after a while.
If it is the same company i never had any issues with them paying me or anything else. They are quite strict on showing up for shifts though, if you don't log in on time you get a few chances and then get sacked. My friend got sacked after no showing twice (perfectly understandable!!).

opps - should have read the date lol

This feels more like advertising to me. Sure you are a real mn ?

Tonberry and RainbowFlutterby, then surely they would have seen a "Zombie thread" warning and been made aware how old the thread was by that.