Originally Posted by
PhillyDancer1982
I can relate to this. I was in a bad spot during most of college and after college, when my family wouldn't even let me move back home for very long because they were convinced that someone "smart and educated" like me should be able to easily find a decent paying job. When I couldn't find a job after college, I was in a very similar spot and that's what convinced me to turn to dancing for a while until I could secure full-time employment.
Also, my friend/ex-boyfriend joined the military(the navy) because he needed money and he wasn't making enough at the restaurant jobs he had. But then again, he'd always considered making a career out of the military, so it wasn't such a "desperate" decision for him. He just made the decision before finishing college, as opposed to entering the military after graduation, probably because it was hard for him to pay for college + all of his expenses. The military is a great career path and it offers great benefits. However, I believe that the military isn't for everyone. (for example, I could never see myself passing the rigorous basic training that my ex and many of my guy friends went through!) But perhaps it's for you and you'll find a lot of opportunities with it, so check it out!
I heard that Cali's strip club industry isn't as thriving or lucrative as other areas of the country. Perhaps it'd be worth relocating to another area? For example, I heard that there's money to be made in Texas(but please correct me if I am wrong...I am not an expert by any means :))
Porn is very financially lucrative and fun too, but please be careful. I understand that you are desperate, but please do not let desperation get in the way of making sure that the company does legitimate STD testing and verifies all CURRENT results. I've heard a horror story or two about people that did porn for extra money to pay a bill, just to find out a few days later that the porn producers hadn't checked the actors' current STD results, and the actors ended up having something really bad(luckily those people turned out negative, but they were scared shitless for a while). You do NOT want to earn a few grand to pay bills, just to get stuck with a "debt sentence" of medical bills stemming from an incurable STD like HIV or Hep C. It's rare that this will happen, but it can and HAS happened before! Don't let that happen to you...if you get an assignment, make sure you see all of the actors' current STD results in writing! Also, please consider that some diseases such as HIV have a "window period," where positive results will not show up in the DNA tests until minimum 10 days after contraction...therefore, a "negative" test result within the last 30 days may not be a true representation. Just wanted to give you the heads up.
I wish you the best of luck with your job search and finding a good way to make money. I know how much it can suck to be in a bad financial spot(some of my many posts on this thread show a mere "tip of the iceberg" of what I went through in the past).