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Last edited by Elusive21; 03-04-2009 at 09:01 AM.
I'm not a career stripper but I'm gonna reply anyway with something I've noticed...
A lot of older women at my club (as in 40's) still come into work hustling up money for rent. IMO, if you are a career stripper there should be NO reason to struggle in your 40's. I guess all I'm saying is that I can see how it would be tricky to be a career stripper because the money is so easy, and one shifts income can easily be spent within a day because of course, you can "always make it back next shift"!
I'm not talking bad about stripping for a career. I actually respect the women who are successful at it because I know for a FACT I'm not good enough at managing large amounts of cash well enough to have this as my career.




I am not a career stripper YET, but I would assume that the best thing to do is treat it like a "real" job. Work 5 days a week, don't call in or be late. Save your money.





I am a career stripper in the sense that it supplies the bulk of my income. My educational background though is a BA and MA in Education and my first career was an elementary school teacher.
I disagree with LuckiCharm. The 40 yr old women who are hustling for their rent are not career strippers, they are subsistence strippers. These types of people will NEVER do more than live paycheck to paycheck or night to night regardless of their age or profession
There are strippers like myself and a few other motivated individuals on SW that have successfully used stripping as a medium to generate monthly cashflow and capital for investments. There was a thread on here a few months ago that went into this topic in detail. http://www.stripperweb.com/forum/sho...d.php?t=100227
I also blog about this topic regularly.
Rebecca Avalon
I'm a career stripper, I suppose. It has been my main source of income for the majority of the last 13 years. I'm not independently wealthy, however, I do own a home, a car that's paid off, I have a nice chunk of change in an IRA, and I paid for my college education--which I am continuing now.
I went to college for journalism and began dancing during that time. When graduation day came I was in no way ready to begin working in that field. I danced for four or five more years and then worked in publishing for almost five years. But during that time I still danced a few nights a month.
When I quit my last publishing job a year and a half ago I came back to dancing with the intent to go back to school. After researching and really thinking it through, I have decided to go back and try to get into nursing school. I have a few semesters of pre-reqs I need to take, but after that the nursing program is only 18 months long. At that point I'll be over 35 and hopefully I will be done with dancing, but you never know.![]()
I agree with you somewhat, but in any field (most, in fact) there are people who spend as much as they make and are in serious debt. That happens to professionals in every field. The successful lawyers and doctors may make six figures, but that doesn't mean they manage their budgets any better than 40 y. o. strippers. They aren't living hand-to-mouth, but you see what I'm saying.




^^I'm glad you brought up that question. I was without a computer in October and missed that fabulous thread. The question of whether or not to be a career stripper is actually profound... both sociologically and personally. Something I've been struggling with recently. I'm still working my way through reading the thread... but need to sleep and wake up and finish reading it tomorrow.





as I posted in the older thread, being a 'professional stripper' is very much like being a 'professional athlete'. Being wildly successful while in your 'prime earning years' doesn't really help later in life once you're too old or burnt out to still excel as a 'professional', but you still have 25-30 years left before reaching legal retirement age.
Thus the difference between being a 'professional stripper' and a 'subsistance stripper' has nothing to do with the amount of shifts per week you dance, and everything to do with financial planning and discipline for your future after your 'prime earning years' are behind you (or lack thereof).
Or perhaps the reason some strippers struggle isn't because they spend their money lavishly, but because they don't make enough money dancing?? These days, there's a lot of dancers working at small clubs that are happy to make $100 per shift, which isn't a whole lot of money. There are also some girls who work at upscale, high-hustle clubs but don't have the abilities to successfully hustle. For example, at one such upscale high-hustle club I worked at, there was a girl who'd been working for the past 5 days in a row and hadn't yet made the remaining $300 that she needed to pay what she owed on the eviction notice that she'd already been served.



This is the most important information of all. There are also external considerations that can effect your intention to dance long term, like the fact that over 10 years the industry will change. Not to be negative, things just shift and change over time, but it's something to be aware of. Also, the knees you have in your 20's, and the knee's you'll have in your 30's may not share the same opinion about how many shifts per week are acceptable. So, the most important thing about being a career stripper relates to Melonie's post, not the amount of shifts or length of time you think you can do it.





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