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    I got started thinking about this while reading and posting in the "I'd be richer if I'd never danced" thread.

    Not all of us aspire to Britney Ireland's Superstripper status, but I think most of us agree that this job should serve us and our lives rather than the other way around.

    I'm stripping to support myself and stay out of debt while I get my small business up and off the ground. I LOVE my career, and it makes me happy every day, even the days I am literally stressed to the point of my hair falling out. I don't really care if I am ever "rich", as long as I can afford to work on the projects I want to work on. Dancing a few days a week leaves me with the money and time to do a really kick-ass job on the small projects I currently work on and I have faith that if I kick enough ass on the small projects, the big projects will come.

    So that's me. For others, what does dancing allow you to do that you couldn't do otherwise? What do you do with the money and free time it affords you? Where do you think you will be when you're forty? How are you setting yourself up for a happy and successful future, whatever that means to you?

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    I have a day job that can only afford major bills, Stripping pays for groceries, gas, and now I have a savings account which has grown drastically and continues to.

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    So far, stripping works for me because I have time to take care of my home, my husband and my dog without feeling stretched thin. I keep myself in way better shape than I've been in since I was a kid. I'm able to buy extra goodies when I want to. I'm staying active and productive which keeps me from getting depressed. I have enough time to myself to think about what I want to do in the future.

    I hope to get to the point where I'm actually saving/investing my money...then stripping will definitely be serving me!


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    I really love that thread that is active right now, "I'd be richer if I'd never been a stripper". It's really making me think about how I want stripping to serve me. BritneyIreland's blog post was great too. I realize I fall under her definition "Job Stripper" (was that what she called it?). It's my full time thing and I'm making a very healthy income at it, but it is stressing me out because I have zero plan for the future. Every single day I think, what am I going to do with my life? So I realize being a job stripper is not necessarily the best for me.

    I absolutely am happy with my freedom though, as is. I work only 3 shifts a week, maybe four, but I am very lenient with myself about taking days off if I feel like it. I could easily be making $2,000 a week, even $100,000 a year, just working one or two more shifts a week, and only taking 2 or 3 weeks vacation, instead of the one week a month I do now but I am so comfortable as is.

    But, I think what would be best for me is to be superstripper for a year, maybe two and then switch to supplemental while I start my own business. I know I would not be happy still stripping in 5 years. It's too taxing on my body.
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    Right now it is serving me to be able to pay all of my bills, treat myself, and develope some sort of savings while I decide what the hell I want to do with my life. I also am far happier stripping then I've ever been. The super stripper sounds kind of appealing to me though...hmm...


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    I strip full time (4 nights a wk) and I have to say that I am able to afford things I wasn't able to before. I can walk into a store and not think twice about spending $100 or more. When I had a regular job, $100 was like more than half my weekly paycheck. I'm also able to pay off my bills and now I'm saving up for some boobies. Dancing has definitely served it's purpose and will continue to for at least 2 more years.

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    It is allowing me to build up my savings, pay for tuition in cash, pay down my debt, and work less than the regular jobs I was doing. It allows me to pick my own schedule and work as much or as little as I wish.
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    Stripping allows me the free time and money I need to attend college. I won't have to stress as soon as I graduate (January!) about finding a job to pay off my loans and provide me with health insurance.

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    Umm.... its all I know now lol... so it umm... its my life its what I do it pays for me to live and umm yea.... I never really thought about this before lol.... speaking of though im due on stage in 45min and I havn't showered or gotten out of bed yet so umm *goes off to shower and ponder this*

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    I used it to cut my student loans in half and get a Master's degree, as well as study abroad which was awesome. I'm now working in Corporate America and I have to be honest, I prefer it. My pay and benefits are awesome, and for once in my life I have some real stability. Being a Superstripper sounds good and all, but dancing for me has been too taxing PSYCHOLOGICALLY. The industry is so different now and quite frankly, there are a lot of whores (seriously, whores) in the clubs now. I do not feel like giving all that contact and putting up with increasingly rude customers to make money. I will find another way. There are many people that were poor and came from shit, and now are millionaires that never danced a day in their lives, so I know it's possible even if I'm not a dancer. I would love to dance here and there and put money into investments, etc. But for the sake of my career which I'm doing well in already, I'd rather not risk it.

    But it was fun, and I met the most awesome women doing it. Thankfully, it's over for me.
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    I think this and the other thread are interesting as well. Some many different view points, I love it.

    Right now I am stripping b/c I have always wanted too. The money aspect of it never really came up when i was thinking about doing it, more of a plus. I do want money to go towards my tuition which is about 7k all year (x 4).

    I mostly just want to save it. I want to be young and not have to worry about if I'm going to have money for food, or gas or rent. I'm really sick of being poor, so I'm really looking at stripping as an opportunity that will allow me to rise above the financial situation I've had to deal with all my life.

    This is a very exciting time for me, finding out that I really enjoy stripping as much as I thought I would I know I'm way to ignorant to really be saying this right now, but being a SuperStripper would not be out of the question for me, assuming things stay relatively the same as they are now....I hope the other thread stays active for a while, i'd love to see more peoples take on the situation

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    Its enabled me to pay my bills, while allowing me freedom with my health issues. It hurts me a LOT less physically than my other jobs-and I'm pouring my money into savings and a possible business venture that would enable me to get OUT o fit when i'm ready.

    It keeps me in great shape, and the activity is good for my mood disorders/depressive tendencies.

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    Well I started dancing at 27 years old, after waiting tables for 10 years. I never had, or have now, visions of grandeur. I was just sick of struggling! I make now in one night, what I would make in a whole week somethimes waiting tables. Just making it by and basically being broke the past 10 years, well needless to say I got very behind, in everything. Bills, life, goals, you name it. Unless you are a college student who's parents pay for half your shit, the service industry is not very profitable. I am able to SAVE money now ( what a concept...!) pay my bills ON TIME, and go grocery shopping without having anxiety over "Geez, am I going to have enough money for everything in my cart?" So yeah, I am not driving around a BMW or carrying a Coach bag, but who cares. Just those things mentioned above make me happy. Plus I make my own schedule, which I love cause me and my husband have more time together.

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    In the past stripping has helped me get myself out of some really fucked up situations that I got myself into when I was young. I also saved enough money stripping to pay cash for a (cheap) house when I was nineteen.

    Now stripping lets me go where I want and do what I want to do. I live in a van, which I love, and when I want to go spend two months in the desert on a riparian restoration project, or help rebuild a fallen building at a friends place, or just hang out by the river or in a canyon, I only need to work for a few days first. AND, even with not working much, I save a crazy amount of money. Hopefully in a couple years I'll have enough invested that I won't *have* to work to keep living in the manner I'm accustomed too. Which is, yanno, in a van, so it doesn't cost much. I'll still dance sometimes cause I love it and if I want money for a new van/laptop/whatever, but the having to will be gone.



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    Stripping has served me in so many ways. First, I started to pay off student loans and have a daring adventure. A year and a half later, mission accomplished and ready to move on from dancing, I was in an apartment fire where I lost everything and nearly died (water heater exploded while I was in the shower, bars on the windows, dramatic rescue) Because I had concentrated ONLY on paying off debt, I had no savings (Remember to stock your emergency fund!). That was an extremely painful time for me, struggling through PTSD and depression, and trying to rebuild my life. Dancing was my cushion then because though I couldn't work much, it could still support me.

    Rebounding from having nearly died, I decided from then on I was going to truly live. That's when I began to really pursue my love of travel. I sat in an 800 year old zen garden in Japan, rode camels in Egypt, drank red wine at Picasso's favorite cafe in Paris, wandered through the Prado in Spain, taught English to monks in Cambodia, and indulged in the silky sea and white sand in Thailand. Traveled all over the US and best of all went to Vermont every summer to see my Mom who has MS and can't travel to see me.

    I'm an artist and stripping has allowed me the time and space for my own work, and to study with some of the very best artists of today. It allowed me to pursue obscure passions like Japanese tea ceremony and it gave me a beautiful home. I was able to pay off a BFA from a school I loved, and currently attend an MA program in a field I really care about. Stripping has been the padding between transitions, I've left it many times and returned when I needed to. It allowed me to keep saving while I was doing jobs I enjoyed and learned a lot from, but could only cover the bills. As a result I have no debt, and a good savings and investments. This was all done with dancing part time.

    Through my experience with the fire I became very interested in trauma, healing, and rehabilitation. I've studied cranial sacral therapy, Thai massage, and am a registered yoga teacher. Stripping helped cover these extra things when I was working at a job at a gallery. Full time stripping would ultimately bring me down every time I tried to stick to it. It always felt like there was something "more" I was supposed to be doing, and now I see that how stripping was more of a path to support another calling.

    Next year I will turn forty and I will not be retiring a millionaire, but I still feel like one.

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    Quote Originally Posted by shakti View Post
    Stripping has served me in so many ways. First, I started to pay off student loans and have a daring adventure. A year and a half later, mission accomplished and ready to move on from dancing, I was in an apartment fire where I lost everything and nearly died (water heater exploded while I was in the shower, bars on the windows, dramatic rescue) Because I had concentrated ONLY on paying off debt, I had no savings (Remember to stock your emergency fund!). That was an extremely painful time for me, struggling through PTSD and depression, and trying to rebuild my life. Dancing was my cushion then because though I couldn't work much, it could still support me.

    Rebounding from having nearly died, I decided from then on I was going to truly live. That's when I began to really pursue my love of travel. I sat in an 800 year old zen garden in Japan, rode camels in Egypt, drank red wine at Picasso's favorite cafe in Paris, wandered through the Prado in Spain, taught English to monks in Cambodia, and indulged in the silky sea and white sand in Thailand. Traveled all over the US and best of all went to Vermont every summer to see my Mom who has MS and can't travel to see me.

    I'm an artist and stripping has allowed me the time and space for my own work, and to study with some of the very best artists of today. It allowed me to pursue obscure passions like Japanese tea ceremony and it gave me a beautiful home. I was able to pay off a BFA from a school I loved, and currently attend an MA program in a field I really care about. Stripping has been the padding between transitions, I've left it many times and returned when I needed to. It allowed me to keep saving while I was doing jobs I enjoyed and learned a lot from, but could only cover the bills. As a result I have no debt, and a good savings and investments. This was all done with dancing part time.

    Through my experience with the fire I became very interested in trauma, healing, and rehabilitation. I've studied cranial sacral therapy, Thai massage, and am a registered yoga teacher. Stripping helped cover these extra things when I was working at a job at a gallery. Full time stripping would ultimately bring me down every time I tried to stick to it. It always felt like there was something "more" I was supposed to be doing, and now I see that how stripping was more of a path to support another calling.

    Next year I will turn forty and I will not be retiring a millionaire, but I still feel like one.
    truly inspiring. many kudos to you, and thank you for sharing a bit of your journey with us.

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    ^Agreed. Shakti, your post gave me goosebumps.
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    Similiar to alot of people I was sick of struggling. I was in and out of unemployment due to the nature of the hospitality industry here on the Gold Coast. I was sick of having to live on $200 per week. Stripping has given me more than it has taken from me ultimately.

    It has made me more assertive, sure of myself and I definately know myself more thru knowing humanity more. It has allowed to make a million and one mistakes (some financial, others not so financial) and still be okay!

    I'm going 29 year of age and am hoping to still be able to do this into my 30s as there are plenty of other strippers who are doing this well into their 30s.

    I've experienced alot in my time working in this industry full time (it's been my main source of income for six years). I actually won't feel like I should be pitied (sp?) after having done it for 10 years... I will feel quite good that I have been able to keep going with it for that long!

    Oh.. not to mention.. without stripping I definately wouldn't be where I am living right now being able to afford the time to volunteer with the AWL nor would i have been able to afford Bibs all the care + treatments i gave her without it. I'm so glad I could give her that extra time thanks to being able to afford to do so.. so it has been more than worth it for me.

    Even thru the dark times.

    I'm in the process now of working on my exit plan. I'm hoping 2008 onwards will be my golden years until I am done.


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    As someone who has not done it but would like to (though whether I ever do is immaterial), this is a really great thread. Thanks for sharing all of this.

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    It has given me financial freedom plain and simple. I have never had money like this in my life. I save about 70% of my income from stripping because I used to live on a lot less so I dont go overboard with the spending.

    I am studying law but I am really enjoying stripping right now because it allows me to have a lot of free time. I wish I had started dancing at about 23 instead of 26 and I could have put away so much money.

    My boyfriend is pressuring me to start my legal career as soon as I finish uni this year and I have to admit the thought depresses me
    Im really enjoying the job and Im not ready to give it up yet. I am earning more now than I would in my first few years as a solititor but it's more about me enjoying the quality of my life right now.

    Ideally I would dance until I didn't enjoy it anymore and then start my legal career.

    At 40 I really have no idea, it's not in my nature to think that far ahead and thinking of being 40 is depressing. Im even depressed thinking that Im getting closer to 30.
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    It's fun! I don't even feel like I have a job.

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    Quote Originally Posted by shakti View Post
    Full time stripping would ultimately bring me down every time I tried to stick to it. It always felt like there was something "more" I was supposed to be doing, and now I see that how stripping was more of a path to support another calling.

    Next year I will turn forty and I will not be retiring a millionaire, but I still feel like one.
    What a gorgeous post, shakti. I felt good just reading it.

    I feel the same way...I have stripped full-time and the money *was* amazing, but ultimately I always came down with a weird combination of burn-out and boredom. Like you, I always felt like I should be doing more. I love having enough money to do the things I want and not worry about the future, but money itself just doesn't blow my mind, yanno?

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    Shakti, that's beautiful.



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    I finally am able to get on track with my debts, I can get stuff paid off quickly, like my hydro bill, my daughter, can actually go to school activities that require money, and my BF/husband is able to stay home with the kids, no daycare, they stay at home and don't stay overnights at grandma's, big stress reliever. And, just for the fuck of it, and because we needed it, we went out and bought a computer. My kids have all what they need for clothing, I keep going this way, my debts from student loans will be paid off within a year and a half. I have money saved away, and, we might actually go to Disney World next year for my daughter, she's been saving her money for 2 years now. That we're actually on top of things, and we're at home most of the time now.
    This has been a lifesaver for us.

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    I started dancing when my father refused to pay for my classes any longer that was three years ago I was only 17 years old in a big city with no income,I was born in the Bahamas so at the time it was hard for me to get a regular job without my paper work being together i knew it was illegal but hey it worked out for the best, i don't have much established but i love the security of knowing that no matter who doesn't come through for me or what situation im in i have a back up way to make money and get back on my feet, I have a newborn daughter and I know that even with school fees and bills I'll still be able to take good care of her and not rely on anyone.

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