
Originally Posted by
Melonie
^^^ not to mention another potential consideration that is also discussed in Dollar Den ... 'lost opportunity cost'. Normally one would only think of the price of college tuition as the major cost factor if attending college. However, where exotic dancer college students are concerned, every night that is spent studying instead of working in a club 'costs' the dancer $200-$300-$500 !!!
Thus if attending college means dancing two nights per week instead of five, for every year of college attendance the 'lost opportunity cost' of not dancing probably means 50 weeks * 3 nights * $300 nightly earnings = $ 45,000 per year that WASN'T earned but could have been. Over a 4 year bachelor's degree program this means that the college graduate dancer is starting out $180,000 behind where she otherwise might have been.
That's NOT a small consideration, given that the same dancer could attend college at say age 35 after being a 'serious professional dancer' for 15 years, but the dancer ( usually ) cannot attend college at age 20 and later at age 35 attempt to return to dancing if her college degree and 10 years worth of 'straight job' earnings haven't actually provided the kind of income required to 'set herself up' for the future.
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