Goodbye

[BellaBellucci]

Guys, please trust me on this without further queries. Miranda doesn't need advice from any of us right now. The situation is sensitive way beyond that.

So please, let's not have any unnecessary spats just now. Miranda's personal welfare has to be everyone's priority.

Thank you.

This.

~BB~

[francisfkudrow]

8 pages back, give or take, we were all lamenting how we're not nicer to one another. Now I get home from work and the thread has degenerated into something not very nice.

[BellaBellucci]

8 pages back, give or take, we were all lamenting how we're not nicer to one another. Now I get home from work and the thread has degenerated into something not very nice.

I don't know about anybody else, but I was lamenting that the men here aren't nicer to the girls, specifically. You all have only one job in this: be supportive. That's it. Offer your words of encouragement and keep your opinions to yourself, because hardly any of you have any fucking clue what you're talking about. You lack the perspective and the qualifications to make suggestions as to what someone in Miranda's situation should do.

She's a big girl and it's her life. Let her deal with it.

~BB~

[Ananke]

All good intentions, no doubt!
However, when we are dealing with clinical depression, advice on practicalities (jobs etc..) becomes irrelevant.
Miranda needs FIRST to be looked after by professionals (which she IS doing) and only when she is ready she can come back and ask for your advice...In her own time!
Give her space!

[Moon]

Ananke. I agree wholeheartedly.

Having suffered myself from clinical depression .The last thing you want, no matter how well intentioned is a contant stream of advice. In addition I would also add multiple shoulders to cry on, which again well intentioned are not helpful and can prove to be detrimental to recovery.

Miranda needs time to allow her medication to take effect and once stable even more time for her to find her way out from the dark place she currently is.

Miranda. You have to find the answers within yourself, but professional help can guide you.
I wish you well and know you have the strength to find your way back.

[dderek123]

Thanks. Tea only!

No scotch?

[asianphoenixx]

In tranny porn, inability to produce a cumshot is generally an immediate pay cut and sufficient cause to not get you invited for further shoots, so I'm not sure how this wouldn't be a deal breaker.

As for alternative options, I may be smart and educated, but I'm nearly 30, have no professional work experience, or even the threads with which to weave the kind of narrative you need to tell an HR manager in order to get hired at the entry level. Furthermore, jobs at the bottom of the wage scale seem even less inclined to hire me, having been rejected by such prestigious firms as McDonald's, Target, and Safeway. The bottom line is that I don't have anywhere to go, and as my mood cycles yet again into another long-term depressive episode, I frankly don't have sufficient hope of my life ever getting better to continue to be patient about things.

Miranda, i got dumped by my parents when I was 16. I had to struggle and worked as a street prostitute for few months to survive, charging 1 or 2 dollars per clients, It's sad and frustrating, but I've managed to complete my high school and finally got a scholarship for college.

Years later, i got dumped again by my wealthy boyfriend. Reason?
He got bored of me and I was no longer "young" for him. He loves teenagers and I was no longer teenager back then.

I had only $700 in my pocket and went to Toronto from Montreal that night, and decided to work as an escort immediately. I charged $80 when the other escorts already charged at least $200 if not more

Years have passed, and i'm still here, not only surviving but thriving.

I'm sure with your intelligence coupled with enough courage and determination you can be successful too.

So wake up sister! There is still a chance.
You have already a good reputation in H.A and you can still continue working in porn occasionally, focusing on you being a bottom, so you don't necessarily have to produce "the money shot", and your main income will be as an escort.

Starting just like me, lower your rate to attract prospective clients.
If average escorts charging 250 or 300, you may start at 150 or 200.
The clients will see it as "not to be missed" opportunity and for sure the demand for you will be higher.

Once you have enough savings, you can start raising rate, thus increasing your potential earning/income.

good luck and I'm 100% sure you will be successful.

The key is: determination and courage

[asianphoenixx]

Miranda,
I've posted about this multiple times and refer to it in my blog posts (which I might need to make clearer). Hopefully others will read this and when girls apply to be models, many times I make this information available.

It's extremely rare or near impossible to make a living as only being a model in the adult industry. The economics simply are not there. There is no ladder to climb (or the view from the top isn't any different from the one at the bottom). The pay rates don't really rise much (if any) for established models who have a fan base.

In fact, models just starting often get far, far more work than established models because they're the new "IT Girl". This gives the impression to the model, that they're going to continue to be the "IT Girl" and get shoots on that regularity (again, I've preached this so many times). It doesn't happen, the shoots tend to drop off.

It's simply unsustainable for a girl to expect to make a proper living purely as model in this industry. She has to have other sources of income - and whether that's running her own sites/clips stores, working on cams, doing other adult work or having a non-adult job, they both take a lot more effort and commitment.

very true. Porn industry is dying and it will be replaced by "creative porn" as well as interactive porn in the future.

However, it's still a good place to promote our name in this "entertainment industry", thus i personally plan to do some porn to promote my "neo vagina" in few years, the moment i become a post op

[asianphoenixx]

Miranda, i got dumped by my parents when I was 16. I had to struggle and worked as a street prostitute for few months to survive, charging 1 or 2 dollars per clients, It's sad and frustrating, but I've managed to complete my high school and finally got a scholarship for college.

Years later, i got dumped again by my wealthy boyfriend. Reason?
He got bored of me and I was no longer "young" for him. He loves teenagers and I was no longer teenager back then.

I had only $700 in my pocket and went to Toronto from Montreal that night, and decided to work as an escort immediately. I charged $80 when the other escorts already charged at least $200 if not more

Years have passed, and i'm still here, not only surviving but thriving.

I'm sure with your intelligence coupled with enough courage and determination you can be successful too.

So wake up sister! There is still a chance.
You have already a good reputation in H.A and you can still continue working in porn occasionally, focusing on you being a bottom, so you don't necessarily have to produce "the money shot", and your main income will be as an escort.

Starting just like me, lower your rate to attract prospective clients.
If average escorts charging 250 or 300, you may start at 150 or 200.
The clients will see it as "not to be missed" opportunity and for sure the demand for you will be higher.

Once you have enough savings, you can start raising rate, thus increasing your potential earning/income.

good luck and I'm 100% sure you will be successful.

The key is: determination and courage

one last thing, ask your clients to post a review at the beginning of your escorting career. Reviews are very crucial in North America.

Once you have coupled of reviews, then you can beat Tia Phoenixx lol

once again good luck! Gotta work now

[BellaBellucci]

Yeah. No. Don't lower your prices. You're a person, not clearance meat. Act like the latter and that's how people will treat you. You're putting a price on yourself - make it appropriate. *smh*

I mean, 'lower your standards?' Seriously, where does some of this advice come from?

~BB~