Part-time jobs just aren't cutting it and I have been looking for a full-time job for over two years. I already tried car sales -- I suck. I got a useless degree for the job market, and don't have the cash to go on to a Ph.D. so I can teach (my personal goal) and have a career.
So I contacted a guy about doing a fetish shoot/video. It would involve no nudity on my part. It pays quite well and could be a repeat gig. Am I nuts? I already sold my underwear to some skeevy dude. It felt great not to dip into my savings account just to pay for gas, but also, I was shaking for an hour after he left. Scared. I feel like the fetish video would be more professional (ha-ha) so I would feel safer. I'm not eating ramen yet, but I can see that day in my future and I want to avoid it.
I guess to his credit, Cary responds with nothing close to approval of such a course of action (though he does suggest a "do it three times and get out" compromise which makes me wonder what other forms of work he might condone along similar lines -- professional hitman, perhaps?), but what the letter writer really needed was a good old fashioned dopeslap. So here it is...
1. You have savings and you're contemplating going into the sex industry?
2. It's called a FAFSA (Free Application for Federal Student Aid). Chances are that even after having gotten an undergraduate degree, you have several years of Federal loan eligibility left to help finance your education.
3. State schools offer Ph.D.'s as well, and cost much less than private universities if you have established residency.
4. Many colleges and universities will at least partially finance a graduate degree obtained while working there.
5. One more time -- you have savings and you're contemplating going into the sex industry?
That is all.
