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Are You A Career Stripper Or Are You Working Towards Another Career?
This is a weird question to think of @ 6:30 am, but I was curious if some of you were working towards another career, while you dance and if you have a goal in mind for when you will stop dancing to pursue that career?
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I see stripping as a career like modeling or professional sports.
There is a prime age range for dancers in which they will be most successful and earn the most money.
As the dancer ages, she is less likely to have the stamina and agility for dancing not to mention must work harder to maintain physical beauty. Plus this can be a tough industry mentally for some and they don't stick around too long.
I suppose there are always some exception but this is just my opinion.
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This is a good question! I was always dancing to work towards a larger goal (although I often became side-tracked along the way) now that I am living the larger goal - my larger goal is completing my Bachelors degree and I am currently in the B.S. Neuroscience program at GA State - I find myself missing my old life, which is odd because I disliked it so much at the time......maybe this is our tendency as humans to never be satisfied....
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Tarasaurusrex
maybe this is our tendency as humans to never be satisfied....
I agree with this
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miss.a.p1600
I see stripping as a career like modeling or professional sports.
There is a prime age range for dancers in which they will be most successful and earn the most money.
As the dancer ages, she is less likely to have the stamina and agility for dancing not to mention must work harder to maintain physical beauty. Plus this can be a tough industry mentally for some and they don't stick around too long. I suppose there are always some exception but this is just my opinion.
I dunno... Maybe late 30's is my prime? :) I look and feel better now than I ever have. Maybe it is harder to maintain than it would have been in my 20's, but I wouldn't know, because I was lazy in my 20's and just looked okay because I was young, with absolutely no effort. Looking and feeling my best is kind of a hobby for me now. I love working out, and finding new, sneaky skin care/ makeup secrets to keep me looking way younger than I am.
As for stamina and agility to dance... I have enough to not look like a complete idiot on stage, as I just kinda strut & slowly pose... most of what I do on stage is in my face, between me & the customers. I don't see a huge difference in earnings between myself and a pole athlete, except that maybe I sell more dances, because I really get into *sales*, which brings me to...
I would hazard a guess that most strippers in their 30's are tougher mentally than their younger "competition", as they have "seen it all", and have been around for years, time enough to hone their sales skills. For me, it was 10 years of "vanilla" sales.
I'll sum it up and say that stripping this time around is neither a career nor something I'm doing towards another career. I have another career in place; stripping is something I do on the weekends to amplify my income, and also because I enjoy it. I did NOT enjoy it in my twenties... I was one of those sit-around-the DR-and-bitch girls.
A side note: One thing I have found, when customers inevitably ask the "why do you do this" question, they seem charmed by my answer. I always tell them it's for gas money (the stuff's like $4 a gallon lately, wtf) or that I need to make some expensive home improvements & the day job income isn't gonna cover it (all 100% true). I imagine that is refreshing to hear, a positive reason for stripping rather than the stale old deadbeat babydaddy sob story.
No desperation here. Just relaxed, happy confidence.
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I'd like to be a career stripper, i honestly enjoy it. i love that my job is to get dressed up and be glamorous and get worshipped with cash, that i can sleep in until noon, that i can work 3 nights a week and enjoy it and love it and make tons of money and then do whatever the fuck i want with the rest of my time and enjoy my life...
but my family found out about me dancing and they are devastated. they don't understand it. my parents mean more to me than anything, i love them so much, they are the BEST parents anyone could have, and they don't understand the job. they feel like they failed not only as parents but as people, since i made the choice to dance. and that kills me.
i have my degree, i should use it, even if i love dancing and it's the lifestyle i prefer. there's not a lot of my jobs in my field right now but i'm keeping my eyes peeled. and i'm not gonna be ready to adjust to the longer hours during daylight hours and decreased pay on top of that...
on a side note (not to threadjack), the top earners in my club are all in their 30's, because usually they look just as good if not better, and all the big spenders are in their 50's or so and feel weird giving money to a 20 year old, who could be the same age as their daughter... so they purposely seek out the "older girls" (i dont like to refer to them as "older" because it seems disrespectful, like it's their only feature when its definitely not...) sometimes i wish i was older or try to make myself older so that these guys will want to spend money on ME!! i guess it depends on your club though. mine is considered a gentlemen's club, so that kind of sophisticated hot mom look makes the most money.
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I am thinking of doing something else, but for now this is it, Im 31 and I am way better at getting VIPs than in my 20's I look better bodywise too.
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I've pretty much only been a stay at home mom. I don't see anything wrong with stripping for the sake of stripping.
And an edit to emphasize that I am with the baby daddy, to clear up the stigma ;)
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Nothing wrong with being a career stripper in my opinion. I just am not built for it. I'm going back to school. Bring on the salaried paycheck and time cards! :)
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I'm a career stripper, as long as my body looks good and can stay healthy enough to dance I'm going to dance. My husband and I have talked about after he settles in as a pilot we'd look into opening a club of our own but until then I'm a stripper.... Most of our older girls in the club I'm at now you wouldn't suspect they are their age & they still make great money.
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Yes, I feel like I am a career stripper at this point. I've been stripping for over 5 years now and it just feels "right". My body is in better shape than when I started, and
my ability to make cash is honed to (almost) perfection. I figure with any luck I have another ten years in me.
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i plan on stripping until my body can't take it anymore and i start looking too old and not making as much money. so i guess i am?? not sure.
ill just say that i am dreading having to enter the vanilla world again, and dreading getting older because of that. i love stripping for the most part, sure it has some downsides, but the upsides more than compensate. i hated and quit every other vanilla job i've had, i feel like i finally found something im good at and enjoy doing.
when i do end up having to get another job, i want one as close to stripping as i can get. i want to stay in the adult industry one way or another..if that means opening up my own private party business or doing milf clips, so be it
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Originally Posted by
miss.a.p1600
I see stripping as a career like modeling or professional sports.
There is a prime age range for dancers in which they will be most successful and earn the most money.
As the dancer ages, she is less likely to have the stamina and agility for dancing not to mention must work harder to maintain physical beauty. Plus this can be a tough industry mentally for some and they don't stick around too long.
I suppose there are always some exception but this is just my opinion.
The top earners in my club are in their mid to late 30's and sexy as fuck.
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Heh the top earner at my club is a 43 year old MILF. I'm almost 30 and I look better than the fat lumpy doughballs in their late teens/20's because I work for it.
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I don't think you can plan on being a career anything these days with the way the world drastically changes every couple years. I'm a go-with-the-flow-in-the-adult-industry-til-money-dries-up-or-its-not-fun-anymore kind of girl.
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I just want to add that i don't think any approach is right or wrong... be a stripper until your pasties graze the straps of your Pleasers, if it still works for ya... or quit when you finish school and find a job in your field, or quit and find yourself a vanilla job when you feel like it... whatever works for you. It's just best to always keep other options open to yourself. Or, keep your spending under control, and live well below your means so that you don't panic when the club is sloooow. Feeling trapped and desperate will show all over your face, and does not compel mr. fatpockets to want to spend his fun frivolous stripper money on you... and anyway, feeling trapped and desperate is no way to live.
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I would have to say I'm a career stripper.
When I first started dancing I thought I would stop at 23 and finish school. Then that turned into 25, then 27, and now I'm 28 and doing EVERYTHING I can to maintain my looks so I can dance as long as possible.
I love being a dancer! Of course there are a few downsides to it, but the positives outweigh the negatives by FAR for me!
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To be honest, I'm still not sure! Although I just passed my 5 year mark dancing (with some breaks in between), I've always had something else going on - First my undergrad, then a day job (still), now also saving for grad school. But I'm picking my schools based on cities where I could make good money dancing, and although I could live somewhat comfortably on the salary from my day business, I'm still stripping. I guess in some ways I use my other skills (degree, writing, etc.) as a safety net for when burn out hits and I need a break. I could easily see myself stripping for another 7-10 years - but I'm passionate about my writing and science careers, too, so ideally there's room for all of them in my life for a while!
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I swear off stripping every other day only to return to work, have a great night, and pretend like I never fantasized about setting all of my fishnets on fire. I am way too fickle to plan to be a career stripper, but the only career I actually want is one that is a bit difficult to have much success with, so I suppose I will continue stripping till I actually do set my things on fire or have success elsewhere.
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My answer now is definitely not what it was when I first started. My initial plan was to dance for 3 years while I finished school: I figured I would have no problem saving up tons of money in the summers (wrong--summer slumps=hell) and christmas breaks (wrong again, expected to be doing shit tons of school work most breaks) and have my degree over and done with in 4 neat years and off on my journey to start my "real" career. Dancing while in school was a lot harder and draining than I thought it would be and not as consistent amazing money as I had thought it was going to be! Though it's definitely helped get me there, now one semester away from my degree after dancing off and on for 3 years. Now I view stripping as more of my "first" career. Now I plan to be doing it for 3 years longer than I had initially planned, to pay off my student debt and ease my way into starting my own business, because my experiences with stripping have made me realize how RIGHT I am for the entrepreneurial path. Six years is a pretty decent run, but I don't know if that is long enough to call it career stripping especially if you're doing something else on the side. I think it falls kind of in the middle. It is not my sole passion and ambition, but I do really like the job for a lot of reasons, thus it has had and will continue to have an important role in my life for the next little while until I finish developing the assets I need to no longer need the job anymore (or any job for that matter).
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There is a prime age range for dancers in which they will be most successful and earn the most money.
As the dancer ages, she is less likely to have the stamina and agility for dancing not to mention must work harder to maintain physical beauty.
Not to be harsh but 100% DISAGREE.
The older I got the more money I made, the smarter I was and the less I did.
To answer the original question - in my opinion, sure be a career stripper and either work towards a different career (skill set: nursing, lawyer, real estate or other trade) or start your own business.
Sometimes the money is too good and too easy to quit.
It has already been mentioned here over time- as long as you look good and keep healthy, make money and don't have an issue dancing --
Why the hell not?
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Stripper Hacks
Not to be harsh but 100% DISAGREE.
The older I got the more money I made, the smarter I was and the less I did.
To answer the original question - in my opinion, sure be a career stripper and either work towards a different career (skill set: nursing, lawyer, real estate or other trade) or start your own business.
Sometimes the money is too good and too easy to quit.
It has already been mentioned here over time- as long as you look good and keep healthy, make money and don't have an issue dancing --
Why the hell not?
The same is true about cam girls and porn stars. Its all about working hard, continually changing things if your current thing stops working, and looking hot. You can look hot at any age. Its about style, being put together, presence, charisma, and confidence.
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i plan on stripping until my body can't take it anymore and i start looking too old and not making as much money.
In my case the body and face were still going strong, and I was earning as much money as ever. It was the growing psychological 'burden' that was the hardest to endure.
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Melonie
In my case the body and face were still going strong, and I was earning as much money as ever. It was the growing psychological 'burden' that was the hardest to endure.
^Exactly! I expect my emotional stamina will run out long before my body slows down, as has already happened a couple of times, briefly. I think the main thing that really keeps the psychological 'burden' at bay for me personally is by continually working towards another career! Which, ironically, is exactly what enables my stamina to continue stripping enough for me to consider myself somewhat of a 'career stripper'... Huh. So my final answer is BOTH.
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Yes, I am a career stripper. I started at 19 and I will be 23 in November. I love dancing and even though I am in college, it's mostly to appease my mother and family and to keep my mind sharp more so then another career.