Distracted! Again!

I'm all over the place tonight.

Saw the article on the crazy cat slapped by a restraining order, the first feline under house arrest, thought it was hilarious. Then got jerked up short. By this article

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!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAA.
No, my dear. You have NEVER worked in a contact centre before. I can tell!

BERLIN (Reuters) - German prostitutes are signing up for a career change, training to become nurses to tend to the country's aging population or working phones as tele-marketers.

Thirty prostitutes have enlisted in a church-funded project in the state of North-Rhine Westphalia and more are on a waiting list, project coordinator Gisela Zohren said.

"Competition in prostitution is fierce and the days when one could make a decent living out of it are long gone, especially once you hit the thirties," Zohren said. She said prostitutes' fees had hit rock bottom and they were well suited to jobs on offer in the retraining program.

"After years of prostitution, they know how to listen, look after people and are savvy in selling over the phone," she said.

Experts in the care industry for the aged also welcomed the initiative. "We have more and more old and fewer and fewer young people, so there is a strong demand for ppeople working in care professions," said Franz Wagner, head of the German
association of care professions

(Emphasis is mine)

Unbelievable.
She's likening telemarketing to the sex trade. Hilarious. And whilst I feel the intention is noble, I notice that the whole thrust of the article was Oh, not enough money any more and not Oh, let's get these women out of a horrible livelihood.

Plus retraining as nurses? Granted, health requirements must be extremely stringent for these ladies, but what makes you think your patients willn't cringe? I know there will be people out there who will worry needlessly about STD transmissions.


Interesting, yes?