This economy is so crazy lol. Like the waterline is SO high, people are doing so much to keep up, if they can at all. Constantly having to transform and reform into an ever-changing gig-economy hustling amorphous entrepreneur...smh. I’m especially talking about people who work for themselves. Not working for someone else gives me a bunch of advantages as to how I structure my time and how much control I have over my potential income because if I work harder, I’m directly the person that reaps the benefit (aside from the fucking government fkn pave the streets and feed ppl or give me my goddamn money back).
But it’s largely only tenable for me because I’m also a sex worker, it’s one of the only ways for a person like me to be able to generate the base funding for any other projects, to buy me time to further educate myself on whatever new skills I need to gain this quarter or research the trending websites for online adult work, e-commerce, freelancing, advertising and selling items. All this WITHOUT facing the time loss and soul crushing of traditional work- I can choose my hours and leave when I need to and deal with a lot less interpersonal stress than I did when I was in offices.
Right now I have like...4 jobs? About to be 5? I’m just one person tf. But you know, thank gxd for the online market, I guess!
Meanwhile FOSTA/SESTA makes being an indie sw super hard bc very few sites or apps actually safely allow me to work on them, regardless of how tame or not my work can be, regardless, of course, of the fact that it’s all completely legal. There’s such a concerted effort to disempower sex workers it’s not even funny.
And the whole time part of the reason I’m generating $ is because of our community center goals. I haven’t posted about it because there isn’t much time and honestly, while we are working towards it every day, I can only spend time making content about stuff when I can afford it. Currently I have to make a minimum of $8k/mo and I’m hoping to get to $12k/mo soon, mostly passive. Bigger cashflow=more time to develop projects and organize. The challenge is I’m moving *away* from sex work at the same time, in a certain capacity. Not sure how I’m going to meet my goal, but I don’t worry over the particulars, I just put in the work and listen to my intuition.
But this is all so nuts. Man when they talk about Black women being entrepreneurial it really ain’t no joke.
