melonie, a lotta the arguments u used about college can be applied to stripping too. for example, college costs skyrocketing in recent decades...know what else has skyrocketed?...a stripper's HOUSE FEES and the money that is siphoned from stripper's earnings as well as costs for professional stripper gear and stripper heels, while the potential to make easy money at a stripclub has gone down in recent yrs. u say colleges are supersaturated with too many college students, but then again alotta stripclubs are supersaturated with too many dancers...which means the average dancer has to compete with more extras-givers, cut-throat bully dancers, fugly dancers who most likely scare away more business than help it (this point about unattractive dancers was overkilled in the "fat girls dancing" thred a few weeks ago), than ever before. u quote that these days even a "trained cat" could pass courses at most colleges, but then again unfortunately most clubs have lowered standards enough that even a "grommed cat" could prolly get onto the stage at some strip clubs lol. ok not literally but i think u know what i mean. why else would there be all these "unattractive dancers" and "fat girls dancing" bitch fest threds here on sw if that wasnt the case??! just like college is a money making business, so is pimping--whoops, i meant managing--strippers. stripclub managers/owners are almost like pimps these days in the way they overcharge and overexploit the dancers, and most clubs dont even provide adequate security coverage either from what ive read on here.
just like the potential earnings resulting frm a college degree have gone down in recent yrs, ditto for stripclub earnings. yes there'll be some strippers that always find a way to make good money, or some veteran strippers whose earnings get BETTER over time as opposed to worse, but the same could be said for various college students who use college to persue lucrative fields like medicine, engineering, etc. but just like not everyone can hack it in med school, not every person can hack it as a stripper either. alotta strippers go into it thinking its "easy money" then quit after only a short time becuz they realize theyre not as cut out for making big money as they thought they were...or alternatively, becuz they end up actually getting a strait job with the college degree they persued before and/or during their stripping yrs, and the strait job pays just as much or more with less bullshit factors.
now u could say that the amount invested in a stripping career -- for licenses, stripper gear, pole dancing classes, etc -- is a LOT less than the average student loan debt. yes that is true. however, theres still potential to waste time and money in a stripclub. even a few yrs ago when the industry and the general economy was better, i would see it with some strippers when i bartended at a club. girls sitting around and/or wasting time, making no moeny. or even girls that TRIED real hard but just couldnt hustle and/or attract customers for shit.
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