I actually really started thinking about getting into it one day when my vehicle was in impound and I lived in a rural area which was a 15 minute drive to town but a 3.5 hour walk to town. I walked most of the way, and about to be late for work when a truck/trailer spun around on the highway just to pick me up. I knew this wasn’t going to be good because he was going the opposite direction until he spotted me. An older heavy set man was in the drivers seat and he offered me $100 to do him a quick favour before work. I declined. It started turning the wheels in my head though, and I ended up on this sub. This sub completely redefined what I knew about sex work. The only sex workers I knew were addicts who stood on the corner across from my methadone clinic, and the only men who tried to pick me up were incredibly cheap and gave me the ick. Through lurking I learned that you can both be a successful, sober, sex worker with few bad encounters, and there are also clients who are not incredibly cheap and are actually respectful and decent people who are lacking intimacy. I spent months lurking and posting on Reddit before my first client. I went from being shy about my own nudity and body insecurity to being perfectly fine with strangers seeing me naked. I went from being faithful to a man who didn’t deserve me, to realizing my value is within myself and I don’t need a partner who doesn’t value me in the ways I deserve. I went from being dead broke and struggling to having a little bit of money in my bank and not worrying as much about debts and bills I have to pay. I worked through my whorephobic ideas and the shame that society tries to pressure upon us. I no longer feel hurt when a man tells me I’m not hot enough for what I charge because there’s someone out there who thinks it’s a great deal! I feel like a different person in the best way and most of the people I see are actually decent people despite society telling us they are all immoral perverts.