A mum left her cabin crew job after 14 years to sell adult content online thanks to Covid. Skye Taylor, 48, devoted her time to adult work when the airline industry was grounded during lockdown
Skye says she often gets comments because of her age. But she says she thinks her maturity has earned her more cash. Skye said: “I get a lot of opinions on my age from other people saying ‘you’re old’ but I don’t find it offensive.
"I make my money from being this age. Now I make twice as much as what I would earn from being cabin crew.
"Our basic salary can be £20k, realistically I was earning more 10 years ago than I am now. I have this life which makes me twice as much money as when I’m flying.
"It doesn’t hurt anyone and you don’t have to look if you don’t want to.”
Skye first started working as an adult performer in 2013, when she took up pole dancing to supplement her main income. A friend then suggested she try working for Babestation.
When Covid hit, Skye branched out to OnlyFans and discovered she was making substantially more money. And, combined with other issues at work, this prompted the decision to call it quits after 14 years.
Skye says she now feels more empowered and confident and says her daughters have been encouraging of her career change. She said: “The wage in flying is horrendous in the UK so I started to do pole dancing which I managed to hide quite well.
“Some of my colleagues knew, I did know that there were a lot of opinions – some unwelcome. Sometimes it’s men that are worse than women, you can be 35,000ft in the air and people still know what’s happening on the ground.
“If I say I’m cabin crew I get spoken to with respect but when I say I work in the sex industry it changes people's opinions even though I’m the same person. My mum and dad are probably not too happy but my daughters and sister’s opinions are only opinions I care for and they say you’ve got to do what makes you happy.
“It’s 100% made me feel more confident - because I’m older I have my own little market. Not every bit of the sex industry is stunning 20-year-olds, the whole industry is a wide range of people who are found attractive and can make money.
“I'm not in competition with 3,000 other 20-year-olds, you get more confident as you get older anyway.”
