I’m afraid that’s just how the market works, sweety. It’s a free country, if you don’t like it, move to Stalinist Russia, and take that arsebadger Dmitry with you while you’re at it. You could join a sex workers’ union if you like, but those are mostly for managers and agencies, you’d have to self-crit for appropriating their union from them.

If you really want to charge higher prices (IDK, like if you need to pay your rent or feed your children or something), I’d suggest carving out a niche for yourself. Do a few pro bono kills for exposure, put yourself out there. Have a calling card or signature of some kind, the tabloids love that. Hopefully they’ll sensationalise it all and give you a cool nickname, and that really does all the advertising for you. You just have to take your chances and hope they don’t give you a crap name like “Pub Harpy”.

Fuck off, it’s not my job to educate you

For a start, we don’t call ourselves “cleaners”. Cleaning really IS a degrading and dehumanising job! Imagine having to clean for money, that’s even worse than having to make coffee. I can’t believe people actually live like that. Sometimes if I need to get into a secure building, I have to club one of the cleaners unconscious, dress in his/her/xir tabard and just walk right in, pushing their trolley around (which is also a good place to hide any drugs and weapons I’m going to use on the job), but I always feel super gross afterwards.

So anyway, if you want to become an assassin, it’s not so difficult to break into the industry. Personally, I made my initial connections at university (Carradine College, Oxford, if you’re interested). I joined various esoteric societies and clubs and made contact with a lot of important people, including agency executives.
I work in the private sector, but some of my fellow alumni were scouted by MI5.

Networking mostly involved burning £50 notes in front of homeless people, and schmoozing potential employers over a lot of wine and cocaine (really I’m a gin man, but you have to make some sacrifices). There’s no reason you couldn’t do the same.

Though if you really can’t do that, for whatever reason, I suppose you could join a street gang and do a few stabbings and work your way up.

I’ve been getting quite a few questions like these, so I’ll put these in the #hitbabies tag, for people starting out in the sexual violence industry, so you can find them easily.