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Moms Hiring on for Phone Sex Jobs
Times are tough and we are all looking for ways to stretch our budgets these days. Of course, the best way to make ends meet is to make more money, right? But for a stay-at-home mom who isn’t a best-selling author, the opportunities for bringing in some extra cash can be rather limited. Trying to find a flexible, part-time job that fits around the kid’s schedule can be tough. There’s babysitting. There’s housecleaning. And then there’s phone sex operator.
Actually, the preferred term is phone actor and according to Staffcentrix, a company that helps people find work-at-home-jobs, more and more moms are finding it to be the answer to their financial prayers.
While Staffcentrix doesn’t actually place phone actors, CEO Christine Durst tells CNN that they receive plenty of inquiries from moms. They are generally “sheepish” and even apologetic about their interest, but are clear that they need the money. And apparently, there’s money to be made for those willing to talk dirty to strangers on the phone. Durst says most earn between $10 and $30 an hour, more if they are willing to “go further”.
As someone unfamiliar with the phone sex business, I am not sure just what “further” means. After all, it’s all talk. Or text. Durst says some moms are signing up to be sexters – basically getting paid to do what so many teens are getting in trouble for doing: Sending risque text messages.
I don’t begrudge a mom for doing what she has to do to help her family and, surprisingly, neither do most of the husbands of these women. Durst says most of the moms she talks to claim their husbands are supportive of their phone sex ambitions and figure if it’s something they are good at, they may as well get paid for it.
I don’t believe I would be any good at this job. I have no doubt that I would be giggling at all the wrong times and be fired soon enough. What about you? Could you make it as phone sex operator? And would your husband be okay with it?
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Children and Sports: Too Much Too Soon | Strollerderby commented on May 25 10 at 10:23 ame commented on May 24 10 at 7:55 pmI had a friend in college who paid most of her own way through school with the money she made as a phone sex operator. At the time I didn’t think I could do it. Now that I have $40,000 in student loans and she has $5,000, I wonder if I wasn’t a little too prudish :)
Cris commented on Jul 13 11 at 8:52 pmI’m considering this to save my house. The person that I unfortunately married doesn’t seem to have a clue as to how to get a job other than the technical position he formerly had over two and a half years ago. After soaking up all our savings and borrowing 8K from his 80+ year old mother, he’s got a deer in the headlights look with seemingly no idea of what he might do besides what he has done before. My friends are begging me to throw him out of my house. The equity in my house is gone because he quit his job not long after we “got married.” I refinanced my house to pay his bills and keep myself afloat.
Is this really happening? I didn’t thing I was THAT stupid!
Jenna commented on Aug 20 11 at 1:27 amHmmm, I’d never thought about it before but I have decent acting skills… I don’t think I’m going to seriously look into this but I could totally do it. Also, as I was reading the article I asked my husband (who’s reading much more serious things on his computer next to me) if he would be weirded out if I did this, he laughed and said he wouldn’t care but that he doesn’t think I’d be good at it because I “tend towards strange vocabulary and say downright weird things sometimes”. I have to admit he’s probably right. :)
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