I like the vehicle metaphor. *shrug*
All thanks to George Harrison who, some 50 years ago sang:
...drove my body like a car taking me both near and far.
Then there's all sorts of analogies like
no gas in the tank,
the wheels came off (okay, that's more of an old West wagon saying), added in with her propensity to drive around the desert at high rates of speed and no headlights on, I think it works.
Ultimately, she was doomed from the beginning. She doesn't have
it. Whether it's a good work habit, proper management of time and resources, sanity or just the passion for it.
For a middling person who's been kind of on the lower rungs of life, I'm sure any money is attractive. She was in all those men's discretionary spending category years ago. If she were 24 years old, I'm sure she could get a lot more interest from men to send her money with little return on investment.
What she really needs is a man who's a fetishist into bestiality.