The thing about online sex work is that the sex isn't the thing that gets you down. It's the constant interaction that the clients demand. The "girlfriend experience." It's exhausting.

You need to be either incredibly beautiful, or very creative at marketing and interacting with your clients. Speaking as someone who was in the field for a short while in college. I didn't really have the personality to make it work, but the women I know who were successful at this made bank. Dior dresses, Louboutin…

Both. You might find a decent research survey on there once a month but they fill up almost immediately. Mostly it is people in the US outsourcing their own jobs (writing SEO content for example) to people in India, for example, for pennies. With the exception of the surveys, any task you find on Mturk is something…

Nope, not worth your time. It was decent a few years ago. In summer of 2010 I made over 500 dollars on there just in my spare time, mostly filling out research surveys for universities. But now it's just crazy. I wouldn't touch it with a ten foot pole.

It's entirely possible that it's true. And it's really sad. Someone else posted a link to the research, but I can vouch for it myself. When my period combines with my usually manageable depression, really bad things happen. My depression has been acting up this month due to some major stress issues, and I was managing…

Agreed. Terrible if they are innocent, awesome if they are guilty. Because seriously, how often are rapists ever punished? I'm not normally a violent or vengeful person at all, but I admit that if the man who raped me while I was in college was standing right in front of me, and I had a gun, I might very well pull the…

Hah. Guys like him never get out, are you kidding me? He'd have been dead soon anyway.

Well, that could be a good thing. It would be nice to see some prison reform.

I have quit, after smoking for 5 years. I had a couple of false starts, where I would not smoke for months, and then go back to it, but I think it has stuck this time. What helped me was to cut back to one or two a day first. And then I got a cold, and smoking hurt my throat, so I just stopped. And by the time the…

Thank you! This isn't suspicion of them having sarin, there are 1400 people who were killed by it, and it isn't just the US saying that. Anyone who doubts that, please go take a look at the BBC news or something.

Haha, but in this case we actually know that not only do they have sarin, but it's been used already, and over 1400 people are dead. So...not really the same situation as with WMDs.

Thank you so much, especially for the quote. Stuff like that does help. I've dealt with depression before, two years ago I attempted suicide because it was so bad. I hate feeling this way again, because I thought I was "better", you know? I haven't really been networking because I am very shy, but everyone recommends…

I have trouble dealing with depression, too. I forget where I first heard this, but someone once gave me the advice to treat myself the same way that I would treat a friend. If your friend was feeling like you are, you wouldn't call her a psycho. My guess is you would let her cry on you, give her a hug and a cup of…

I predict you will be at least 90% correct about this. I mean, they may add some different details, but this is how I've assumed it went down ever since I saw that episode.

"You can do this."

Thank you, and good luck to you, too :)

Thanks. I'm trying to think positive and tell myself that things will work out, but it's very hard to stay optimistic.

That professor sounds weird but fun.

Yes, I've been using the advice on there to write my resumes and cover letters. I think the trouble is not so much how I'm writing them, but that nobody needs an employee with my skills and experience.

Congrats on the new apartment, it sounds amazing! It sounds like you would like the home decor stuff at Modcloth.com, they have a lot MPDG type stuff that is very cute.