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

[FastasleepInABunnySuit]

It flipping well isn't!

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

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!)

so you said that this pays around £9 per hour. what if say, cleaning (toilets etc) paid around the same (and it doesn't, i know).. which would you rather do?

I can't quite determine that one for me. I mean, I know I'm a man so I don't have the option but if I was a women, I can't quite figure out which one I would like to do.

Cleaning can be crap but chatlines could get to your brain a bit. i guess it all depends on what kind of person you were. I don't think the chat thing would get to me. I reckon i could do it and be glad i didn't take the cleaning option.

hmmm.

I would scrub loos for £9 an hour
lets face it I do it now for free

saying that, i tried telemarketing years ago when i was backpacking and I lasted all of about 20 minutes before walking out.... and that was for a reputable charity!... but it was the cold calling people who really didn't want to talk to me which got to me.

these people want to talk to you and you're providing a service so maybe it would be different.

yeah scouse but some men's public toilets are incredibly disgusting. you wouldn't believe.

for instance, i work for a nice upmarket high-tech company with posh entrance halls and well kept toilet facilities.... but you can bet your ass they'll still be piss all over the floor by the end of the day.

(who does that i wonder. i find it very weird)

pubs/night clubs - I've got a strong stomach but even i have found myself gagging a bit. it's f*cking third world.

dc i used to clean the loos mens and womens when was a barmaid
so have seen the state of the walls and all the pebbledashing that they do

gross eh.

it's the piss all over the floor that gets me. i mean, who does that?

I can't think of anyone i work with doing that... but obviously at least one of them do.

oh the things people do!

especially when they have those troughs tbh
the piss is ridiculous,
but the shite is even worse
screechmarks and pebbledashing was unbelievable

was it limited to the actual toilet though because seen it other places where the poo has ended up elsewhere.

limited to the toilet thankfully

DC I wasn't meaning to sound nasty.... it's a job that takes a while to get used to definately!!! And if I seem a bit funny with you, I'm having a stressy few weeks!!

I would chat, mainly because with public loos, forget the disgusting bodily fluid (of any type) you also get a helluva lot of needles and it's a really dangerous job!!!

Scousey did you get to talk to Mark? Not really allowed to say that like though but nevermind, he seems to shy!! It's really funny!!

so shy even

I've been doing this for 7 years now for a reputable company and there are sometimes hard but can be fun too. I've never thought of the card index but that's a grand idea!! I might suggest it to the managers. I started when I was skint and now I'm not I still do it to pay for the lovely added luxuries so good luck to all that try

Wow, an eight year old thread!

8 years ago I might have been able to muster some sexy talk but now meh not so much

Fast, I'm really impressed by your determination, imagination and humour! Leaving the ethics of the thing right out of it - because we have to play to the market sometimes - I really hope you manage to get really slick at the job AND keep your 'self' separate from it. Your management sounds pretty good, actually.

I snorted at 'shining with his sex juice'. For a brief time, I wrote readers' true experiences for a top-shelf magazine. Varying the language was the trickiest part. I read loads of dirty stories, made creative use of my thesaurus, and wrote lists of euphemisms which I stuck to my office wall (raised a few eyebrows when visitors wandered in there.) Sex juice was definitely on a list! I had a formula that worked and the publishers didn't take my true experiences when I tried diverting from it. Packed it in because it got boring & depressing (and I ran out of credible scenarios.)

Definitely think it'll be helpful for you to create word lists and mini-plots that you can tailor for your clients. With any luck, you'll soon be able to credibly act a series of standard scenes with three-quarters of your attention elsewhere. Good luck! And 'boo' to all the callers, while also being pleased they're paying you

Just saw this and thought of you

ZOMBIE THREAD

OMG, April 06!!! Furious

If you pay tax can you apply for tax credits ?

Hello Peoples.. I am new.. Was reading all the comments on Chat lines..and thought ,,what a good way of chatting about things, one could not normally chat about with ... Well my associates.. I also am thinking about doing a chat line... I do work..PT and also earn money buying and selling... Which i thought was going to get me out of a scrape... But alas.. Its just not enough to go round!!! Have a daughter i have to put through collage... So whilst i try and keep my self respect .. Try to see this as just another job..Acting Job!!