Blog#3 Mayflower Madam

I've been working very hard for my money. Legally, just so you know.  However the older I get, the more semesters I'm enrolled in college, the more changes I go through in my life, I require more money in order to adapt and not fall behind the curve. I have been scrambling for profitable ways to make money just to pay for the gas in my car and my education. So I can relate to the feeling that Sydney "Mayflower Madam" Biddle Borrows probably felt when she lost her job, needed to pay the bills, and also secure a chance to succeed in the future. Ambition costs something. She stuck her toe into the waters of the sex business and knew she could make a go of it HER way. She did.

I don't condone the way Sydney made her money, and I don't have to in order to just admire the skill, intelligence, and drive that she possessed. Not only did she make herself successful, but she managed to do get of some serious trouble down the road. It takes skill to solicit high end escorts and or prostitution for years and get off with only paying $5,000  and a "kiss on the wrist," (Sydney Biddle Barrows) instead of a slap on the wrist, after you've been caught.

Where did she end up after all the scandal? Well, she did not retreat to the woods and hole up in a hunting shack. She created a public persona that somehow people began to accept and even desire. She drug her name out of the mud instead of letting people leave it there. Admirable. 

Dear readers, DON'T take up prostitution. DO push forward with your careers and be smart about it. The legal way of course.

Sydney Barrows on "The View".