Two ambulance workers recently revealed how they left the NHS after suffering from “extreme burn out”.
Kayley Winterson, 26, and Emily Rose, 28, said being on the front line was often “traumatic” – and the couple switched careers for less stress and more money.
The former emergency medical technicians (EMTs) joined subscription site OnlyFans, which is popular with adult creators, in 2021 and they said their finances and mental well being has never been better.
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Kayley, who lives with Emily near Norwich, Norfolk, said: "Working in the ambulance service was terrible for our mental health. It's a minimum 12 hour shift most of the time and it was so busy.
"Sometimes I'd be assigned a call at the start of my shift at 6am, but then by the end of my shift at 6pm I still hadn't gotten round to going.
"I ended up feeling so bad thinking about leaving someone there so I'd just go anyway, but then a 12-hour shift turned into a 15-hour shift. It was emotionally and physically draining."
And as for how different life is now, she added: "We're bringing in more than I could have ever imagined whilst working in the NHS.
"People are generally very supportive. Everyone we've spoken to understands that we weren't happy before and this enables us to be happy and spend time together.”
With this in mind, we decided to look at other ex-NHS employees who ditched healthcare for something much saucier.
Megan Rox
Another young woman who said her healthcare job had a devastating impact on her mind is Megan Rox.
The Brummie beauty was a palliative care assistant for five years but the toll of her gruelling shifts during the pandemic was almost unbearable.
Her fortunes transformed when Babestation DMd her on Instagram before she joined the racy TV company as a presenter.
And speaking to Daily Star, she said: “It has literally been life-changing. It has changed my life for the better, I can’t deny that.
“Mentally I was in such a bad place and now I feel like a whole new person again.”
Describing what Covid-19 was like on the front line, she added: “I don’t know how I got through it. It was very hard and I would get home, have a shower, curl into bed and I had to go to sleep straight away just to block it all out. It was an awful time.
“After a while I couldn’t take it any more. It was awful because visitors couldn’t come in and see their families and it was a palliative care unit so it was a very tough time.”
She said packing it in for a completely different job was a “crazy change” but one she is grateful for.
Cherry Bloom
Unlike the others, Cherry Bloom, 41, still works for the NHS – and by all accounts she loves both her job and her colleagues.
But the cost of living crisis forced her to get a kinky side hustle to help support her four children.
The Scottish mum has therefore been selling frisky snaps on OnlyFans for the past six months to boost her income.
She has been shocked by the reaction to it and has had famous footballers and rockstars sliding into her DMs.
Cherry told us: "It’s just really surprising because it’s just little me. I am doing my own thing and people with all this profile, money and status are messaging me but I am just normal.”
The mum still works for NHS Lanarkshire and she said her side gig means she has two different personalities.
She explained: “On the school run the jumper and tracksuit is on and I have my hair scrunched back and when I am doing this I have a whole different personality and that is me for then.
“But when the kids come back it’s not me, I am in mum and wife mode again, you just need to have that separation so you do.”
James Cowe
Bournemouth bloke James Cowe walked away from the NHS after being “insulted” by a proposed pay offer.
His decision came in March 2021 when then PM Boris Johnson said a 1% pay rise was “as much as we can give”.
Disgusted, James left his healthcare assistant role to incredibly earn his yearly salary just weeks after joining OnlyFans.
He told PinkNews: “With the pressure from the coronavirus pandemic causing all healthcare industries huge amounts of strain, I felt unappreciated and actually insulted.
“I am extremely grateful to OnlyFans as I feel this is potentially the start of a life-changing experience.
“After struggling with such low pay in healthcare, the future is now looking much brighter.”
He added: “I worked a total of six years in the healthcare industry and I found the workload to be increasingly demanding and exhausting for very little pay at the end of the month.”
Holly Munroe
Holly Munroe’s current lifestyle of chilling on a beach in Marbella is a huge contrast to how she used to spend her days in the UK.
Before moving to Spain, she looked after the elderly for five years after finishing college.
She grafted 60 hours a week travelling to different homes and she acknowledged that the job itself was rewarding.
However, she said: “It was exhausting in the end. I was going to loads and loads of houses for really s*** money. But it was the money for me – I only got paid £8 an hour.
“Suddenly they took my hours away for no reason and I just told myself I was done. Now I make a lot more doing a lot less.”
She is now living it up on the Costa Del Sol and she said she “does not miss England at all”.
In a previous interview with us, she said: “I get paid for doing basically nothing. I just sit on my phone for a few hours and that’s about it really.
“Every day I get up, go to the beach, go shopping and come home. I just got sick of England and thought I could rent in Spain while doing a lot less.”
The English Collective of Prostitutes previously expressed concerns that mums in particular were being forced to consider adult work because of low wages.
And speaking to MailOnline, a spokesperson said: “As nearly 80 per cent of NHS staff are women, and wages are now lower than they were in 2010, it isn't surprising that growing numbers of NHS staff are turning to sex work to supplement wages that don't cover the cost of living.”
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