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An experienced, well-connected IT contractor, yeah no doubt. Someone fresh out of school, new to London ? No way.

And sad thing ? Nice little judgement you have going there.

She was hardly 'fresh out of school', she was in the middle of doing a PhD. And yes, I do think it's sad that anyone has to make a living working as a prostitute, if that makes me some sort of Victorian prude then so be it.

But she also says she enjoyed it more than working in computing :) so in this case "has to" probably didn't apply!

"I did have another job at one point, as a computer programmer, but I kept up with my other work because it was so much more enjoyable."

It was by choice. Now what, if anything, does this say about what we do? Contrary to common arguments surrounding the topic of women in computing, this woman is definitely not averse to science / technology. She's got as much geek in her than any of the people on this site, and yet she preferred being a callgirl to a programmer.

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