The same day I quit the retail job someone told me that they thought doing online sex work is "exploiting myself." The work isn't exploitative, especially when compared with these low-wage positions where they overwork and mistreat employees.
https://www.businessinsider.com/great-resignation-teacher-onlyfans-bbw-model-money-jobs-work-careers-2022-1
I'm not anti-sex work (I'm more anti-work in the general abstract to be honest) but these sorts of stories to me just highlights the failure to properly compensate workers. If she wants to do her BBW work, that's rad! However, any time I hear "Person does X job and makes more money and has more free time than Y job" just makes me think we need to address the issues with Y job.
I'm not hatin' on her sex work choice at all, I'm just sayin' preschool teachers should be secure in their compensation, every job should be of course. Preschool teachers, I think, are uniquely important in that they (ideally) help the kiddos to start to socialize and figure the basics of being a person, which like super important for society. That to me is a job that should be highly respected, and with that respect should come compensation and the resources to do the essential work (in the non-gross "essential worker" way that MEGACORPS use) well and sustainably.
All that said, I still think if her sex-work work is a better fit for her and her situation, she should be able to do that as well. She should do that and do it safely, and make fat stacks.
My point is, I think workers of all kinds should be properly cared for and venerated.
I hate how the "work/labor discourse" is about pinning one type of work against another in some sort of suffering coliseum.
Yeah, until this is resolved it's not really a free choice; it's a choice compelled by the market.