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Greed, shooting fish in a barrel, and the recession

by Sophie - Escort Business, Foresight, how to information - April 28, 2008

 

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In the many emails I have received, this caught my eye… as a great topic.

“Great article. If anything, girls should be more stringent now. I have a friend that is LE (not vice), he says that they call the current situation “shooting fish in a barrel”, because of how lax these girls are getting because of the economy.”

Great, so let us talk about that a little bit.

Why would it be so, that when the economy is slow, girls throw all caution into the wind, and walk into the arms of people that don’t have their best interest in mind?

I have had an “interesting” experience, lately. I am going to share it with you, though I am risking of not looking good… but then again, if I cared about looking good, I would not do this job, would I? lol.

Anyway, you all know that I am an avid and diligent student of marketing. I am not one of the talents at it, so I need to put a lot of “elbow greese” to produce results.

I have spent a small fortune on my studies in the past 4-5 years. Among them, I was in an apprentice program that is about to wrap up.

Two months ago, part of “graduating” for the apprentice program, we were participating in a group project. The topic was not my favorite topic: it catered to “bottom feeders“.

Bottom feeders are people who want everything for free, and they won’t spend money on stuff they want, even if that means they will starve. Largely the same type of crowd as 80-90% of the escorts, if that means you, then yes, it is you, if you spend money… I didn’t mean you, you are part of the 10%.

I forced myself to participate in the project, against my gut feelings.

At some point I noticed that the effort we put in could result in serious and ongoing income in the future. I told my teacher what I thought.

She said: “That is a great idea.”

Which meant that she liked the idea. Not what I though it probably meant: that she and I will become 50-50 partners, and that I will have an additional income, which would be really nice.

I doubled my efforts in the project, worked my butt off… while I noticed that the “idea” never was mentioned again, and my teacher invested no effort in the project.

I became disgruntled, anxious, angry… all kinds of nasty emotions.

Until, this past weekend, I made a realization: She never said or promised anything in return my efforts, and I, alone, made up the “pot of gold” image at the end of the “rainbow”. I got “hooked” by my own greed.

As soon as I noticed that this is what happened, I started to look for other instances where greed got the best of me.

And believe it or not, I found plenty of examples of being hooked by empty promises, or hinting on possibilities, walking into bad/horrible relationships, rape, customer running of without paying, paying for hotel room only to sit there by myself. The only thing I never did, is get in trouble with the law.

Which brings us back to the beginning of this story: Greed can blind you, make you dumb, stupid, careless, and I can see that greed coupled with need is a real bad adviser.

If business is that bad, then you need to cut back on your expenses, consider moving to a cheaper place, moving back to your parents, stop drinking, drugging, and become very very very sober.

Don’t allow greed to get the best of you.

I personally live by the credo (for the most part): Never do anything for money that you wouldn’t do for free.

PS: I just had this thought, that most girls that this “sermon” is addressed to, probably don’t read blogs… lol

Tags: Escort Business · Foresight · how to information

1 response so far ↓

  • 1 kelli // Apr 29, 2008 at 1:41 am

    This is a great time for this reminder…..although I see myself falling somewhere in the middle of money savers and spenders, I do feel the effects of the economy coming on strong. I’ve had to fight back urges of desperate actions, ie: taking clients without references, inorder to make up the decline of the US dollar. And I support your advice to stay sober!!! Awareness of the political and economical climates is one of our best defenses!!!! Thanks Sophie

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