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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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expatinscotland · 08/04/2006 20:21

i worked as a waitress in a posh strip club - we were fully clothed - i'd much rather work a sex chat line than strip. at least, you don't have all the punters in your face. they got tossed out if they so much as touched us, but the strippers had to pretnend they liked them.

nutcracker · 08/04/2006 20:33

nannyme - For your information I have been at the point where my home was repossessed and my parents had to give me money for food, so i think I know about poverty thankyou.

I think the ironing is a great idea.

Persoanlly i'd rather sell my posessions, downsize or whatever I could than do that type of job.

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FastasleepInABunnySuit · 08/04/2006 20:35

Sorry I haven't answered questions but I did say I was going to the ILs...

I get payed about 9 pounds an hour, the phone rung every 3 minutes...

There is a whole section of totally non rude chat for lonely men - I didn't come across any in my one hour of work lol!! But I'm sure I will..

I can't do any other jobs though it's just not possible with expressing and no car...

I'm not single, my dh works FT but we have spiralling debts from before we were married (he travelled to Yorkshire every weekend for a year to see me while I was in a very unhappy situation and was too young to leave!!)....

I couldn't leave my kids to go to a job they're 2 and 6 months, I think they need me as a SAHM - and DD needs her wuverly EBM!

I am going to do something else, I've joined an evening counselling course (basic) with a view to go onto the next ones with some funding, when the kids are in school I'll either look into furthering my counselling skills or go into psych/nursing (depending on how good I am at counselling!!)

zippiti you're always such a cowbag on my sexline threads are you jealous Wink

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FastasleepInABunnySuit · 08/04/2006 20:37

If I can't crack the nerves soon, I will do the irorning

spacey! I HATE ironing too... but at least swearing and stammering at the iron won't mean I get payed less Grin

wish me good luck for tonight! I'm trying out the link to the stories thanks for that, could be a liefsaver

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nutcracker · 08/04/2006 20:38

Could you not do an evening job somewhere and your DH give your Dd you EBM ?

expatinscotland · 08/04/2006 20:39

FA, you'll be okay, hon! I was a wreck when I first started waitressing. But I needed money to pay my bills. I'm just the sort that believes you make your own way and don't rely on handouts or others to bail you out if you can help it.

It'll get better, I promise. Especially once the money is in your hand.

Honestly, these punters were drunk and after I started getting weekend evening shifts and walking out the door w/£100+ in my hands it made things easier.

expatinscotland · 08/04/2006 20:41

I hate ironing. At the end of the day, if you respect yourself, that's all that matters.

You do what you've gotta do.

If I had a dime for all the times I heard, 'What are you doing there? You're so [insert adjective], I wouldn't have needed to wait tables there.

nannyme · 08/04/2006 20:44

nannyme - For your information I have been at the point where my home was repossessed and my parents had to give me money for food, so i think I know about poverty thankyou.

You nicely illustrate my point there as you hadn't in fact reached the point where there is no one to bail you out. And, corect me if I'm wrong but actually owning a home that can be repossessed is one huge fecking assett that really poor people don't have whether or not it ends up repossessed or not.

And having things to sell sounds good to anybody who has nothing I'd have thought.

Don't get me wrong, any kind of hard-upness is horrible and I don't doubt you suffered hugely but please don't mistake being hard up with real poverty where you'd do anything to make ends meet.

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FastasleepInABunnySuit · 08/04/2006 20:47

Cod I love you Grin

to clarify the payment thing!! I gt payed 18p a minute for every minute I'm on the phone, and the phone did pretty much ring all the time..

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nutcracker · 08/04/2006 20:48

Oh sod off nannyme, you really haven't a clue about my life so don't tell me how it was, you weren't there.

Your the one that hasn't a clue.

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FastasleepInABunnySuit · 08/04/2006 20:49

I don't express through the day because my 2 year old needs to go out iyswim!! So I express at 6 am, 10 am, 6.30 pm, and 11pm... which really kind of cuts out the chance of evening work Sad but listening to them both scream while I express in the day was soul destroying, right now I only do one while I'm on my own with them :)... I can't do any less than four, I've already had lypmhangitis and I'm not getting mastitis!!!!

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FastasleepInABunnySuit · 08/04/2006 20:51

Expat thankyou :) you're a sweety...

nutty love don't have a fight... people have different views on poverty - it's a confusing issue - comparing it to the thrid world rather than relative poverty in the UK is all V confusing!!

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Pinotmum · 08/04/2006 20:51

Just wanted to wish you luck for tonight. Did you see the programme about the 2 girls who worked in lap dancing clubs - at first one really hated it and her friend didn't mind it. At the end one had left and one stayed - the one who had really hated it in the first place. She had got her head round it and felt in control. It's early days but you're in control and as with all jobs we're a little nervous at first and then the confidence builds. Got any stories lined up yet?

BROWNY · 08/04/2006 20:54

Good luck for later on FAS Smile

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FastasleepInABunnySuit · 08/04/2006 20:56

No soties yet I've discovered a green and blacks easter egg!!!

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FastasleepInABunnySuit · 08/04/2006 20:59

turning into cod must be stress stories I meant to say

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Pinotmum · 08/04/2006 21:02

I think you should imagine all your callers tonight as various types of easter egg - peeling off their shiny foil coverings and peeking at their sleek hard shells - how would you eat them? Slowly break into mouthsize morsels and suck slowly or chew with ferocity. Ooh I need a lie down Blush

expatinscotland · 08/04/2006 21:03

Good one, Pinto. I just imagined all the punters as big dollar signs and all I thought about was how I was paying my bills off AND still able to have a treat every now and again.

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FastasleepInABunnySuit · 08/04/2006 21:03

Maybe there should be a premium rate chocolate stories line for us girls Grin

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Spacecadet · 08/04/2006 21:05

good luck for tonight fastasleepSmile

SomethingAboutMary · 08/04/2006 21:07

Goodluck for tonight your very brave, i could not do it i would wet myself laughing Grin

I could do the texting though if i was in need of money......

In fact whats the number? Grin

JanH · 08/04/2006 21:08

Bloody hell, Pinot! ShockGrin

Good luck, fa Smile

expatinscotland · 08/04/2006 21:09

No shit, Mary! I could do w/some extra dosh. And believe me, I can keep a straight face. I just kept seeing that scene from 'Jerry Maguire'. 'Show me the money. SHOW me the money.'

SomethingAboutMary · 08/04/2006 21:13

Lol Expat why don't you do it? nothing to be ashamed of i think if you really need the money & things are a little tight why not i mean there are far far worse things FA could be doing.

With the texting one someone mentioned you would not need a straight face because they would need hear you laughing your ass off Grin

Pinotmum · 08/04/2006 21:14

I'd do the texting but I'm so slow he'd have gone off the boil. My friend always rings me and says "I got a blank from you" Grin On the phone, I'd pee my pants laughing unless I got into character - which must be so hard with a baby to deal with!

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