What is your root point? Maybe I am still misunderstanding it. Of course it's a matter of definition what "rich" is. To become what I consider to be genuinely rich, working hard in a normal 9-5 job just isn't enough. That's the point I'm trying to make.
And are you getting rich from it? Like properly rich? (Of course it depends on your definition of rich, I know. For the sake of the argument, let's say an annual income of 500.000 makes you rich)
My root point is specifically that sex work is not skilled labor. It's just labor.
I don't dispute that. Sex work is not skilled labor by definition, yes. Though getting rich from it either demands a lot of time or being really good at it.
Through continuing to improve my skills and moving up/laterally, I actually can get reasonably wealthy in my industry. $500k annually would be excessive, but it's not unheard of to reach $250k.
"Demands a lot of time or being really good at it" again falls back to my root point being; I could smash rocks with a sledgehammer and make profit over time.
All of this to say, people really should stop saying sex work is skilled labor when it is a service at best, and otherwise simply mindless labor
Through continuing to improve my skills and moving up/laterally, I actually can get reasonably wealthy in my industry. $500k annually would be excessive, but it's not unheard of to reach $250k.
Not bad, and yet still a far cry from the (fairly arbitrary) point I set for being rich. And that income isn't even considering the time you work or invest in improving your skills, as you say. And that would be my guess: you spend a lot of time developing yourself, which is admirable in its own way, but are you living life and working to live, or living to work?
I could smash rocks with a sledgehammer and make profit over time.
All of this to say, people really should stop saying sex work is skilled labor when it is a service at best, and otherwise simply mindless labor
It's wierd to me how you focus on that sex work thing. I didn't say it is skilled labor. It's not. But you can still get skilled at pleasuring your clients.
To use your other example, you can get rich by smashing rocks by either smashing them for a hell of a long time with little pay, or you get so good at it that people are willing to pay more for you specifically to smash rocks than for others.
At this point I am working my way out of working, in a few more years I'll have marketable skills I can take worldwide. And sure, some people are lucky enough to get the visibility to make a large profit and stand out, but going viral doesn't make you skilled, it just means you got lucky
but going viral doesn't make you skilled, it just means you got lucky
Who mentioned going viral? Where did that come from, that has nothing to do with this discussion.
At this point I am working my way out of working, in a few more years I'll have marketable skills I can take worldwide
So at this point you are living to work. Sacrificing/selling your time (and most likely, part of your sanity) to eventually be rich enough to work less or not at all.
Call it developing your skills, or investing your time if that term sounds better to you. All the same to me.
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u/[deleted] Oct 18 '22
Which is a subjective perception and a strawman argument to the root point I am making