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For a lot of people, yes. Even for day-job programmers, the money is better than most professions. "When I point out that it took me two days to get two offer

For a lot of people, yes. Even for day-job programmers, the money is better than most professions. "When I point out that it took me two days to get two offers that pay more than my job at Mother Jones, that I could make $9,600 a month -- $115,200 a year -- and the average starting salary for someone with humanities masters' like ours is $39,808, she sighs, "I really don't know if I could stand banging some disgusting creep for money. But there are really some pretty compelling reasons to try."

SwellJoe 19y ago
It just seems to me that if you're willing to do just about anything to make $100k/year, and you consider this particular job disgusting, why not get a degree in something marketable, even if you don't love it, and make the same amount, or more, that way? I'm not at all opposed to women selling this particular skill...it's just when they're saying "banging some disgusting creep for money" it makes it clear that it's not what they want to do with their life. So, my question, perhaps not made clear enough, is why don't they do something a little less disgusting to them and make even more money than that? An MBA from any good university is worth more than 100k/year in big markets, even with little experience. A bachelors in computer science is pretty close. Law starts near there as well. Nursing pays that well in major markets with a few years experience. Heck, regional managers at McDonald's make more than that--though working up to regional manager is not a trivial amount of effort. I'm just confused why someone would do something that disgusts them for an amount of money that is reasonably achievable in a half dozen careers that aren't all that hard to get into. If, in fact, it doesn't disgust them, and they just like to complain about their boss (as folks do in every career), then it makes more sense. But the more I think about it, the more it becomes clear that the real answer for why they do it is: "I don't want to work very hard, but I want to have the lifestyle of someone who does. And it sucks that I have to bang some disgusting creep to avoid working hard in a field that isn't fun to achieve this lifestyle." As I said, I don't see anything wrong with a woman selling this type of labor, if she wants to. She's probably not the kind of woman I'd want in my life, but that doesn't make it morally wrong. I also wouldn't want to spend time with someone that thinks pageants are awesome, or who loves football above all else, or who enjoys hunting. None of those things are wrong, and I don't judge folks who do them...I just don't find them interesting.

SwellJoe 19y ago

It just seems to me that if you're willing to do just about anything to make $100k/year, and you consider this particular job disgusting, why not get a degree in something marketable, even if you don't love it, and make the same amount, or more, that way? I'm not at all opposed to women selling this particular skill...it's just when they're saying "banging some disgusting creep for money" it makes it clear that it's not what they want to do with their life. So, my question, perhaps not made clear enough, is why don't they do something a little less disgusting to them and make even more money than that? An MBA from any good university is worth more than 100k/year in big markets, even with little experience. A bachelors in computer science is pretty close. Law starts near there as well. Nursing pays that well in major markets with a few years experience. Heck, regional managers at McDonald's make more than that--though working up to regional manager is not a trivial amount of effort. I'm just confused why someone would do something that disgusts them for an amount of money that is reasonably achievable in a half dozen careers that aren't all that hard to get into. If, in fact, it doesn't disgust them, and they just like to complain about their boss (as folks do in every career), then it makes more sense. But the more I think about it, the more it becomes clear that the real answer for why they do it is: "I don't want to work very hard, but I want to have the lifestyle of someone who does. And it sucks that I have to bang some disgusting creep to avoid working hard in a field that isn't fun to achieve this lifestyle." As I said, I don't see anything wrong with a woman selling this type of labor, if she wants to. She's probably not the kind of woman I'd want in my life, but that doesn't make it morally wrong. I also wouldn't want to spend time with someone that thinks pageants are awesome, or who loves football above all else, or who enjoys hunting. None of those things are wrong, and I don't judge folks who do them...I just don't find them interesting.