I’m a model. In 2016 (16 years old) I moved to China on my own for work. I’ve been working as a model since I was 13, but it was in China where I discovered that the model-to-escort pipeline is very real & sex is used as currency. Modelling doesn’t really pay that well - the real money is made by escorting & modelling work is just a fancy ad: you being the product.
As an engineer who bills to clients but in other fields too, the company is incentivized to push their employees to do overtime because they make more money on each employee per hour even if they pay out straight time for overtime. This generally encourages companies to keep their headcount low even if they have the work to support additional staff.
Idiots doing free OT thinking they will get ahead are idiots.
Source: ex idiot