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    I picked up my dog-eared copy of The Four Hour Workweek by Tim Ferriss this weekend. I read it several years ago when I was in my SuperStripper Zone working my ass off and making mad cash. It's interesting how much you can get out of a second read when you have a different life perspective. What I learned the first time I read is was how to build a business that made money while I slept. What I learned the second time I read it is life changing.

    I semi-retired last year on my 11 year anniversary of stripping. For you longtime SW-ers, I've blogged about what I "thought" I would do when I retired for years: start a family and be a SAHM. It was nothing like what I thought: I got divorced and moved back and forth between Dallas and Scottsdale more times than I can count right now.

    I thought having passive streams of income to replace my dancing income would make me "happy" Through trading and SGR I was able to pay my bills without working for a while. My boyfriend at the time was a doctor, we moved in together, he didn't want me dancing and "took care of me" It was awesome...for about 3 weeks.

    Back to Tim Ferriss' Four Hour Workweek p 51 "What is the opposite of happiness? Sadness? No. Just as love and hate are two sides of the same coin, so are happiness and sadness. Crying out of happiness is a perfect illustration of this. The opposite of love is not hate...it's indifference, and the opposite of happiness is-here's the clincher- BOREDOM"

    I couldn't take the boredom, and the Dallas winter...so I broke up with Doc, moved back to my Arizona winter sunshine paradise, and returned to dancing at my favorite club in the country: Babes Cabaret in Scottsdale. It's small, really small, like smaller than the 2500sf home my ex-husband got in the divorce small...but it was a strategic move. I capitalized on the super busy nights during tourist events. But as the desert is now heating up to 100 degrees the tourists are dwindling and I'm thinking...."What's Next?"

    So I planned a trip to Europe with my Mom this summer, she's 67 and we are hitting something like 10 cities in 12 days.

    After that...guess what...I think I'm going to get a personal training job at my health club. I'm certified, I've taught group exercise classes there since 1996...never in a million years would I think I would get a J-O-B after dancing. The difference is that it's what I LOVE doing. As my bootcampers can probably attest...my favorite part of SuperStripper Bootcamp was the workouts and preparing clean meals.

    Not exactly what Tim Ferriss had in mind when he wrote the book, but it's my personal adaptation.

    Just thought I'd share my experiences...so back to the original question: What does stripper retirement look like for you?
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    The audience gasps. In the air, high in the depths of the tent-top, they see nothing but the back of a beautiful woman hovering wrapped in black silk. Slowly and sensually, they watch her muscular back ravel her body into position, and then Whoosh! she twirls-drops-flies down towards the stage, catching herself with a bit of silk wrapped around her ankle. They burst into laughter, because as she falls they see she's a clown with a shit eating grin on her face. Cue clown routine.

    I agree: I'd hate to be bored. When I retire, I must do something I love. Hopefully I've saved up enough to do so.

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    I don't have a whole lotta experiencE with strippers but overall I dont think most End up becoming career strippers, so most end up working jobs afterwards. Most I've seen just stripped thru college, or just to get past a financial hurdle in their lives, or until they made enough at Whatever strait job they were pursuing, etc. Or some continue to strip full-time but don't responsibly plan for retirement or else they don't do it effectively. But kudos to those who do.

    I gotta be honest, not trying to sound hurtful, but britneys scenario is an example of why I refused to force myself to wait longer than necessary to reach a milestone before having kids. I didn't want to be in the situation where I purposely waited longer than I wanted and/or longEr than needed to start having kids, then end up unexpectantly divorced/single, infertile, etc. My mother's own untimely death at age 50 to absolutely no fault of her own taught me that if I want something, I shouldn't wait becuz later I might not have the same opportunities to do it. Example, my dad worked all the damn time despite my moms protests in order to afford a nice retirement with my mom, then that never happened becuz my mom died early, so now he has money but regrets working so much at expense of spending more time with mom. Instead he now buys like >10 hobby cars. And speaking of my moms death, she started having us kids in her mid 20s but if she waited 10+ yrs longer, like my dad wanted to do, we woulda been much much younger losing our mom. Only 2mos after my moms death I had a miscarriage, and the timing of it all showed me that I really wanted babies and that perhaps my earlier idea of waiting til my 30s wouldn't make me happiest.

    Then there's friends I know who are alive and healthy but still regret waiting on the kids part. E.g., one friend who felt obligated to stay on birth control for several yrs longer than she wanted after marrying, with the logic that it'd be wiser if they paid down their (modest) mortgage first. Well very shortly after she started actively trying to conceive, she got diagnosed with early infertility. Spent over $30k at a fertility clinic trying to get pregnant but nothing worked. Worse, hubby has a son from earlier marriage so she's helping support someone elses kid from a cracked-out drug addict momma (who, despite drug usage, is a fertile mertile having her 3rd kid with a 3rd baby daddy at age 40, and tries to sponge as much $ as possible from people and govt) WHILE resenting being childless. My friend wasnt old either, only in her late 20s when she went thru this. The whole thing ended her marriage for a few yrs (but they since rekindled) too. I know of alot of women who think waiting til they save up a big fat nest egg will make them best suited to have kids, then they experience age related infertility probs that end up costing them their entire nest egg and then some. It's one thing if someone doesn't want kids yet til their 30s or so, but it's another to be broody as all he'll but feel obligated to postpone kids against desires because one feels it "best" to wait past the point of being ready.

    In my opinion, I learned from britneys post that it's more important than ever to live the life you want, not just something you think would look good on paper, becuz while one needs to make enough money to survive to be happy, excess money past point of comfort doesn't raise happiness a significant amount. If one enjoys stripping with a passion and makes good money doing so, she should try to make a career our of it, but not at expense of other passions, and if one doesn't enjoy it at all then GET OUT and do something that does fulfill life desires.

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    it looks like this !!!




    and if I get bored of the ocean, it looks like this ...



    and if I get bored of everything, sometimes it looks like this ...


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    I've been retired since last November. I'm working as a bartender and loving it, my husband is now managing a new club, and we're saving up to open our own bar. We've done lots of travel this year and are planning on doing more!

    Primarily, it's simply consisting of what makes us happy, pure and simple.

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    I'll be living in the same town, with the same friends, drinking at the same bars, doing the same stuff in the day, but at night I'll be at home in a house I own, sipping good wine with a (yet to be found) SO. I'm always going to work, I just plan on saving enough dancing so that in the future I will work for fun, not because I need to.

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