Sorry if this offends some SWers and their syncophants.
Some uncomfortable facts:
The typical client earning a good salary of 100k works out to $55/hr or so. Before taxes. But many earn less.
SWers earn $200-300/hr, and up. Plus in-kind earnings like trips, shoes, meals, hotel rooms, and ad hoc help with rent and tuition.
Many SWers do not declare their earnings. As in, they do not pay taxes.
SWers post pictures of lavish lifestyles on social media, taking routine holidays to places that most clients would dream of.
Very few, if any, SWers are offering pre-paid sessions. They are instead asking for free cash donations. Why is this? Can many be trusted to make good on pre-payments when this blows over?
Essentially no SWers would help out clients if the situation were reversed. Clients did not ask for free sessions during the 2008 financial crash, and none were proffered.
Some SWers routinely denigrate their clients (“slobbyists”) on social media.
Just some perspective.
I totally agree with this post... well said and true.
There may be a very few that offer clients a session before payment is made, but i hardly doubt that it happens very often, regardless of how well they know and trust each other.
I would NEVER ask a SW for an advance on a session, it's just not the right thing to do, and i've said before in other threads that it should be the same way.
Us hobbyists have to put our hard earned money aside to be with them when we can, and in my opinion its quite insulting that SW think just because they're a woman, they can take advantage of us, or beg for things.
This whole pandemic is and will be a severe lesson to all of us, that you have to be smarter with your money for cases like this.
We are all going through withdrawals right now, but we'll get through it.
I'm getting tired of all the begging I see on twitter. I've actually stopped following some, or muted them, cause i dont want to read it
To the people that either cave or want to do give them stuff for nothing in return, chances are you are getting screwed the wrong way, most say that you'll be rewarded, but dont count on it, they're despereate right now. Really think before you decide to do things like this. Probably not worth the attention from them saying "thank you, your the best", your just a sucker falling for a trap