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To everyone who thinks working on a chatline is 'easy money'

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FastasleepInABunnySuit · 08/04/2006 11:55

It flipping well isn't!

I would have posted this on my original thread but can't find the damn thing, sorry Blush

I have to get up at 2am to work, and I didn't even feel so sick with nerves on my wedding day, it was an awful feeling.... hopefully my confidence will kick in for tonights graveyard shift....

You get callers who want to do awful things and you have to hang up, you get really rude people saying you're sh*te who hang up in the middle of your conversation... you get people pestering for your address and you're not allowed to hang up just dissaude them... and then you get hilarious weirdos! But then I couldn't think of anything much to say and my calls lasted about 7 minutes each... and each one was as nerve-wracking as the first!

Is anyone else who was interested in the chatline thing working yet?

(Please let tonight be better than last night!)

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Blandmum · 08/04/2006 13:08

But to you want to get better at it/used to it/immune to it? Or would that mean it has changed you?

nannyme · 08/04/2006 13:21

I believe that anyone here who says they COULDN'T do it does not truly know the effects of being poor/skint however you wish to phrase it.

I know I'd do it because I have known what it is to have no money, no immediate prospects of any money and a whole lot of outgoings - three children and a partner.

It is amazing what you will do in these kinds of situation when you have children to provide for and this is by no means the worst thing Fastasleep could be doing. I am sure I have at least considered worse when we have been poorest.

Good Luck Fastasleep. How about, when you are nervous and stuttering, saying oh I'm sorry this is my first time (as in sex, not first time on sex line!) I am sure that would have a positive effect on most individuals who might be calling you.

Is my imagination too, er, good?

Hope you make zillions...

BingoStingo · 08/04/2006 13:24

id love ito do it and do every story as sex wiht most of clothes on isn the missionary position and really make the stories DULLSvilel or oberly sentimental

nutcracker · 08/04/2006 13:29

I know what it is like to be broke believe me, but I would not do that type of job for anything.

I'd rather do a collection of less well paid jobs than that.

£9 an hour for what you've got to do is crap IMO.

nannyme · 08/04/2006 14:16

But what jobs nutcracker? OP has a limited selection of jobs available to her as many mothers do thanks to cost and availability of childcare.

If you are choosy about the work then you've got a little further down the road of poverty to travel imo.

Of course we'd all look for a 'better' way but what if there isn't one - have you experienced that?

Agree that £9 per hour isn't great but it's quite a lot more than the minimum wage that so many jobs seem to pay and of those jobs such as cleaning where you might get £7 or £8, what does that leave you with after childcare (not an option to OP who is expressing anyway).

Like the boring sex idea, dare you to try that tonight fastasleep!

babyonboard · 08/04/2006 14:24

you can get jobs similar as a 'text operator' i imagine it feels alot less removed from reality if you are just typing on a keyboard.
my friend is doing it to pay her way through a medical deegre, i will ask her for details and cat them to you fastasleep..

Spacecadet · 08/04/2006 15:31

italianjob, it was said toungue in cheek, ie, you tell the callers you are sitting there in saucy undies and they beleive you!

catsmother · 08/04/2006 17:19

Agree with nannyme.

I earn an average £3 an hour (less than minimum wage, for doing a "respectable" job which required me to be a graduate).

It is fun, interesting and thought-provoking (though I too get the odd wierdo). However, the length of time I work - practically every evening, and all of most weekends - renders it totally soul destroying. I have no time with my DP, no time with us as joint parents with our DD and no ME time at all. Current circumstances mean that to work F/T in a "normal" job, I simply wouldn't clear as much as I get now and we need the extra 'cos we're skint.

But I feel totally sick at working FULL TIME anti social HOURS for a fraction of what I used to earn.

Frankly, I feel between a rock and a hard place, and wonder how on earth I thought it was once a good idea to run up £12k debts as a mature student so I could get a degree. Having read this post, though the job itself doesn't appeal, I admit I am now wondering if working on a sex line would be a better idea ?????

I would happily (in my current circumstances) clean for even the minimum wage but DP's long working hours don't allow me to do that. Likewise, shifts at Tescos etc.

I am sure working on a chatline isn't easy money, but sometimes you have no choice.

expatinscotland · 08/04/2006 17:28

Well done to you, tho, FA, for working! There's a lot to be said for it. I've never done it myself, but I've been stony skint before - that's usually our standard MO - and believe me, you'll take what you get when those times hit.

Detta · 08/04/2006 18:52

according to my friend who did this, try to get really good at it quickly. she could "despatch" her callers in under 3 mins! let's face it even if they've paid for 15 mins they're not going to hang around iyswim Grin. that way you earn lots but don't have to be on the phone for too long. best of luck with it x

BingoStingo · 08/04/2006 18:55

blimey
i feel so naiiive

Enid · 08/04/2006 18:58

I earn £3 an hour in a 'respectable' job after tax and childcare btw

are you a single parent FA? how old is your baby?

BingoStingo · 08/04/2006 19:00

lol at allt he respectable jobs

Enid · 08/04/2006 19:00

well its just a turn of phrase

BingoStingo · 08/04/2006 19:04

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expatinscotland · 08/04/2006 19:08

what's not respectable about earning a living from legal, legitimate work?

i think it's a bit snobby to presume that ironing is somehow better than working a sex chatline.

i mean, it's all earning a living at the end of the day, however you see fit w/i the bounds of hte law.

colditz · 08/04/2006 19:25

I'd do it.

Enid · 08/04/2006 19:30

I am a bit snobby though

bubblerock · 08/04/2006 19:34

Well done on your first night FA - I'm sure it will get easier, just think of the money Smile Have you read any Nancy Friday books, they have lots of fantasies in short stories that you might find useful!

BROWNY · 08/04/2006 19:39

OMG FAS!! I knew you said you were looking into it, but didn't know you'd actually started!! I wouldn't know what to say either (having four kids hasn't broadened my knowledge of such things GrinWink).

I'd want to laugh out loud, it must be really difficult to think quickly what to say to these men - I think you need to Google for help!

p.s. tell me more when I see you again!!

schneebly · 08/04/2006 19:43

must admit - i have thought about this kind of work - cant see the harm and could do with the money! Wouldnt like to get up at 2am though!

Stylish · 08/04/2006 20:01

literotica.com has good sexy stories and tutorials and things that might help.

fullmoonfiend · 08/04/2006 20:07

FA - I admire you but don't envy you. (Though I might be able to handle the text operator version someone mentioned - less 'involved' :) )
Good luck to you though, I do not what it's like to be desperate for cash and trying to find something to fit in round children. I've been SAHM for 5 years, and I'm 36 - you can practically hear my CV being dropped in the bin before they've read further than recent employment details...

Wish you could find something else though, you seem so creative, caring and talented it does seem to be casting pearls before swine to do this job.

(though, if I could get a business loan for a boob job, I'd probably be straight down the local lapdancing club for a job before you can say g-string Grin - a girl I know can earn @ £200 a night)

snafu · 08/04/2006 20:17

And more if Prince Harry's in, fmf Grin

zippitippitoes · 08/04/2006 20:18

i guess one of these respectable jobs is probably answering questions..

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