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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.
    Very inspiring there, Shakti. I love reading posts like these.


    I haven't started yet, but stripping can serve me in lots of different ways.
    With the money I make, it'll help pay for college without taking out loans and graduating in debt. I have a scholarship but thats not enough.
    It'll give me independence from my folks. Then I can choose how I'm going to live my life. Its like a way to freedom.
    I'll have extra money to save for investments. It always takes money to make money. If I save enoguh money, I can put the money into something else.
    I'll have extra money to buy some nice things and go out to eat every now and then.
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    Default Re: How does stripping serve you?

    I like the more personal aspect of this thread. The other one I purposely only focused on numbers.

    I morphed through the different categories of strippers, and in a reverse order. First I was Professional Stripper who taught school during the day and only danced 1 or 2 nights a week. Then I was student stripper working on my masters degree who still only worked 2 or 3 nights a week. After I got my masters, I realized it would be a pay cut and require more hours to go back to teaching school. So I became job stripper. After a few years of being job stripper and not knowing where my money went I started reading every book, magazine, and newletter on the topic of financial literacy. That was January of 2004, almost 4 years later I am SuperStripper. So, the descriptions are fluid, once can easily move between categories depending on their personal objectives.

    How has stripping served me other than financially. Well, it gave me plenty of time to finish my master's degree. I got to tag along on my husband's business trips. Whenever hubby's corporate job transferred him to a different office in a different state it was pretty easy to pick up and move in 2 weeks and find a new job immediately. As a couple, we don't argue about the two things that break up most marriages: sex and money.

    Most importantly stripping has taught me how to understand men's emotional needs. I blogged about back in April http://blog.myspace.com/index.cfm?fu...&blogYear=2007

    Ultimately stripping has made me a better wife http://blog.myspace.com/index.cfm?fu...&blogYear=2007 because I understand men's emotional needs and it reminds me that as a wife I need to continue to meet my hubbies emotional needs or else HE WILL end up one of those attention starved men in a strip club.

    Stripping has taught me how to negotiate a win-win situation. I agree with Zig Ziglar, EVERYONE is in sales. It doesn't matter what your profession is, if you have to convince someone to do something at any time in your life: whether it is convincing a child to go to bed, or convincing your mate to pull over and ask for directions...YOU ARE IN SALES.

    Stripping has taught me to be Proactive rather than Reactive in stressful situations. I define my self worth from inside, not by the praise or disgrace of others.

    Oh, and how can I forget.....I would have never met my husband if his boss never bought him a lapdance!
    Rebecca Avalon







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