At the risk of spoiling the skeptical and cynical mood of the thread, based on my personal experience with SBs I've actually met and gotten to know well enough to feel reasonably confident that what they told me about themselves is either true or close to it, I don't think these "statistics" are totally off or absurd. Some specifics:
- 26 yo seems plausible as an average SB age.
- I've met A LOT of students and also many recent graduates (usually un or under employed and worried about paying off their student loans, especially in the US)
- I have met a fair number of SBs who have done at least some modeling but only one who maybe supports herself at some level with modeling work, so an exaggeration to call it an "occupation" for most of them
- I've met a few teachers and nurses but many many fewer than students and unemployed recent graduates
- I've met one flight attendant and one "customer service agent" (i.e., ground staff)
- The "top cities" they list match up pretty well with the places from which I get the most frequent SB contacts wanting me to fly them to Tokyo...although I would not have put Sydney or Paris on my list on that basis. Of course that doesn't mean there aren''t plenty of SBs in Paris and Sydney; it could just mean that they rarely want to leave those cities and go to Tokyo.
- The breakdown of how SBs spend there money doesn't look crazy to me based on personal experience, especially if you count paying of student debt as a "school related expense", which seems fair enough.
- A big one in my experience that is left out of this last graph is single mothers using the money to take care of their child(red).
Mostly the list looks a bit censored/sanitized to me, i.e., leaving out items which might look less than impressive or classy to potential SA customers, but otherwise not too misleading. Of course, my impressions are biased by where, how and with what kinds of SBs I personally sugar. For example, I would rarely meet or go much beyond the M&G first meeting with an SB who I suspected of being on drugs in a major way and needing the money for that. I also tend to pass up SBs who seem to be absolutely desperate for money for any reasons, whether or not I know what it is, because it creates a bad vibe in the relationship from my perspective.
-Ww
PS - Hello again, all.
