First, a brief introduction....and then some questions for discussion...
I was myself an escort years ago (as in the 1990s) in New England. I was moderately successful for several years, not needing any other supplemental source of income. I eventually found a steady job outside of sex work and left it a couple of decades ago.
These were, of course, the days before there were well-known websites where you would advertise your wares. (Hell, AOL was sending floppy discs and CD-ROMs in the mail every month to just about everyone in the US in those days.) This was before Craigslist, adam4adam, rentmen, etc. You had to find other ways to make yourself known and keep yourself safe.
While there aren't many people who continue escorting for decades at a time, I was wondering how some of the long-timers would compare escorting today (in 2018) as opposed to when they started years ago. Is there anything about the "old days" that they wish they could bring back? Have things changed for the better in the age of smartphones, etc.? What were things like when you started vs. how you do business today?