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    So right now I'm a teacher of English as a Foreign Language. It's hard work but also pretty rewarding. My friends in the industry are all surprised by how hard my school works me, which doesn't seem terribly hard to me, so I'm guessing it'll make good experience for the Non-Naked Resume (tm).

    Browsing around -- reading old threads about language barriers in the club, and that sort of thing -- I'm surprised to realize that, just as working customer service was good preparation for dancing, dancing was really good preparation for teaching! It's a different rhythm of work, certainly, but some of the basic skills -- esp. communication skills -- are the same.

    For example, in one club I often made some money off a group of Hispanic customers who didn't speak much English, and in the process started finding creative ways to communicate around a language barrier.

    In a more general sense, to teach, I have to be really good at standing up all the time, keeping the attention centered on myself, and persuading a large group of people to do what I ask...

    I'm wondering if when I get back I'll be better at the large-club thing that always intimidated me before. One of my classes is over fifty students. :-)

    So. I'm curious. Everyone, what other jobs have you done before/after/during your career as a stripper, and what's the thread of similarity that ties them together?
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    Quote Originally Posted by thechaosfairy View Post
    Everyone, what other jobs have you done before/after/during your career as a stripper, and what's the thread of similarity that ties them together?
    I'm a little too paranoid to say my actual job on here. I've got one foot in the media world and another in the social activism sphere. My stripper skills definitely come into play. Working a roomful off people, selling myself and my projects, and talking people into giving me large sums of money to do what I do -- this is all stuff I've learned through stripping and couldn't have done half as well, if at all, before I'd danced. Selling myself over and over again, all night long, to a spectrum of people, in nothing but the shoes I stand up in...great practice for a shy girl from the midwest.

    I'm curious about what others' experiences have been. I have a hunch that if you can hustle and hustle well, you can do pretty much whatever else you want.

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    Wow- I was just thinking about this today and wanted to come here and ask for people's ideas. I find that I can take the life-skills I've learned from dancing into every other area of my life. Nothing strengthens backbone and bitch-muscle like dancing. You learn to really navigate your way through tough situations. I work at a coffeeshop and the other day a man was hitting on me and put his hand on the small of my back. A few years ago I would have walked away feeling violated, but not wanting to cause a scene, I would have kept it to myself, but I removed his hand firmly and looked him in the eye and said, "don't touch me" in such a way as to make him offer quick, embarrassed apologies and leave me a considerable tip to cover his rudeness. It's about keeping your cool while being firm because it's your queendom.
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    OMG, you're here, Davka!!



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