Heather, have you thought about financial counseling, maybe targeted at an earlier age? I did some math, and let me preface it by saying that I don't know all the possible expenses involved, but without posting specific numbers in an open forum, it seems to me that a person who has 3 appts a day, 5 days a week, 50 weeks a year is making some serious coin. To me, that's just a full-time job like any other person would have, except it's not 8-5.
For the casual person, maybe these numbers aren't realistic, but then they probably aren't in the hobby for the money and have another FT job. But for those ladies who do treat this as their full-time job, I don't see how they aren't banking/saving some serious cash.
Am I way off base here? Math doesn't lie, but the result is only as good as the knowledge of the data one is working with.
If a person were more frugal and finance conscience from the start, I don't think they would have problems walking away when it was time.
Just a thought from a different angle.
You have brought up a very interesting and important topic. Originally Posted by KenAdams
Your assumption would be incorrect. Not every lady in this business is seeing 3 clients a day, 5 days a week, 50 weeks a year. Some ladies see more, work less days, some ladies see less and don't work everyday. Also it depends on who the lady is and what she charges.
This business is like a roller coaster ride, it goes up and it goes down. The minute you think you can set a schedule for when your clients are going to call is the minute you're sadly disappointed. As much as we would like to have clients who all have standing appointments with us weekly, not all do.
Plus, take into account our lil monthly visitor. Which for some lasts the full 7 days.