I don't have an actual trust fund. To answer the question, I think it would be very improbable to find a truly RICH person dancing. And by rich I mean Paris Hilton or some such.
I can answer the question from a middle to upper middle class perspective.
When I first started dancing, my dad was sitting on about 100K in savings. He was comfortably retired and a home owner (no mortgage) My mom is/was a small business owner who worked part time, making enough to fund the household expenses, allowing my dad to essentially use his retirement income for leisure only.
I wanted to go back to school. The program I wanted to take was a few thousand dollars and part time.
Except now that I was over the age of twenty (Imagine the horror of someone living at home at 21, going to school and living rent free) my dad would NOT have it. I had a job, I was making enough to pay my car insurance and pay for the luxury items I tend to buy.
He started to demand rent. I couldn't afford both, (pay him market rent and keep my car on the road/have the things I wanted)
So I started stripping to maintain the lifestyle I wanted while going to school.
I eventually moved out, graduated college, and am still dancing at the moment.
I'm still bitter that I had to do this when it wasn't at all necessary and would have involved minimal (if any ) sacrifice on my fathers part.
The moral of the story is, just because parents HAVE money, doesn't mean they will give it to their children.



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