Another Retirement Thread Not A ThreAD

You're a sweetheart Allison....I wish you all the best in the next chapter..

Keep in touch..xo

These replies must be what an HISD education gets you for Houston posters...

Allison is an awesome contributor, and will be missed.

However, this goes back to the same thing which has been discussed with some frequency on here and to which I say...

The best way to retire from this work is simply to stop posting, advertising, and communicating with people in the industry. You have to simply quit cold turkey.

Otherwise, you inevitably come back and, to be quite frank, you look rather foolish. Especially if you try to make it seem like you only now work "very limited times" or "only seeing established clients" or some such. Here's why this never works:

• Your "very limited times" will expand and you may as well have never retired;
• Why not, instead of posting, JUST CONTACT your so-called established list;
• At some point, you want more clients, so you will have to expand your list;
• Your limited times may often not work for the majority of said clients.

So, again, in the end, if you need to quit this line of work... just quit. And if you are going to school, be advised that your first real "white collar" job upon graduation will have neither the flexibility in schedule nor hourly rate of pay, so keeping an active account on a site like ECCIE is going to lead you back into it.

And, if you are in school and quit to "focus on school" be advised that you will quickly wonder where all the money went and you will come back to the lifestyle anyway if you simply do not quit.

If you must walk away, just walk away and don't fuss about it. Kill your accounts, delete your email accounts, cancel your web site contract, ditch the phone and SIM card and just walk the heck away.

Bump!

Depending on where in the southwest Im available today . Im in the galleria darlin... Originally Posted by AllisonofHouston

Bump! Originally Posted by chicagoboy

Just curious what you had to gain by doing this.

Free advertisement?

I understood it. But why bump a month and a half old thread.

But why bump a month and a half old thread. Originally Posted by mr666

To alert Allison's many fans of her latest un-retirement. Whereas ads move down - then off - the first page, Coed threads can get bumped back to the top repeatedly.

Dammit, another UTR... Got busted .....

To alert Allison's many fans of her latest un-retirement.. Originally Posted by chicagoboy

Me thingks you're crawfishin'

Me thingks you're crawfishin' Originally Posted by GlobeSpotter

I prefer monkey-fishing.

Back on topic ... it seems Allison has un-retired.

I prefer monkey-fishing.

Back on topic ... it seems Allison has un-retired. Originally Posted by chicagoboy

IIRC, she posted a nice (and serious) note on this a while back. Maybe you should keep up.

Edit:.....and let her do her own advertising.
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IIRC, she posted a nice (and serious) note on this a while back. Maybe you should keep up.

Edit:.....and let her do her own advertising.
. Originally Posted by GlobeSpotter

He's just being a jerk trying to embarrass her in a subtle and understated manner. He's just trying to remind everybody that she was supposed to retire, yet she's back. Why he's doing this and what he has to gain by doing this is beyond me.

He's just being a jerk trying to embarrass her in a subtle and understated manner. He's just trying to remind everybody that she was supposed to retire, yet she's back. Why he's doing this and what he has to gain by doing this is beyond me. Originally Posted by DEAR_JOHN

He's a dick like that...bottom line....

^^^^^^^ Really?

What gave it away? The exclamation point?