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    This post is for everyone who says we should get "real jobs". Most dancers are in school, have other jobs (office, etc), desire or have businesses, and are more intelligent that most of the people who hate on us. A "real job" can be a fast food job for example (no direspect to those who work at one) but we have it better because: 1. We make more in a night than they do in a week


    2. We don't have to deal with managers or employees (bartenders, security, etc) treating us like shit & breathing down our backs 24/7. They let us do us & hustle our way.

    3. Yeah, we ocassionally have to deal with drama with other dancers and customers - but we can cuss them out (literally), or avoid them, and get their asses hounded or thrown out by security if need be. You can lose your ,"real job" (aka job where no nudity is involved) for that. On average, if you are a hu$tler and not known for creating drama - managers don't give a damn.

    4. We make our own schedules and managers are cool with it especially if you work the 3 day minimum (different clubs vary) because they understand some of us have kids, other jobs, personal issues, etc. Although they may fine you depending lol!
    5. We can drink, smoke (depending on state), jam to the music, and have a ball.

    6. We can pick our own outfits according to club standards.

    So yeah, fuck your real job and stop judging us. I'll take dancing over a minimum wage job anyday. Most of us clearly do other shit, because we know we can't do this until we are 60. Duh!

    Only thing that sucks are slow nights, broke men, and the risk of injury - because their is no "leave" or "payment" for that.
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    I've had this a few times. But I just tell 'em to piss off xx
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    Default Re: Get a real job!

    I love positive posts, they help me when I'm feeling burnt out.

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    Actually hearing people bitch helps when Im burnt out,^ but yea empowering dancing when hearing the "get a real job" comment is a good thing. There are certain things that turn my stomach and thats one of them.

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    Default Re: Get a real job!

    Sociologists tell us that there are three things that make a job worthwhile: meaningful work, autonomy and a connection between effort and compensation. Stripping ranks high on connection between effort and compensation as well as autonomy. It falls down on the meaningful category, but isn't all that bad to my way of thinking. I met some interesting people, learned some very useful lessons that carried on in my career out of stripping and let me do the things I needed to do to get through college. That's meaningful in my book.

    How that equation works out for each person in the industry varies, of course. But, stripping is definitely a real job. Like professional sports, professional ballet or fashion modelling, it is a very time limited proposition. I say do it while you can as long as you find it to be worthwhile to you.

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    the number of times Ive heard a guy say "ya you are actually doing something but most strippers have come from abusive households and have drug addictions". Ummmm no.
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    I could never afford the pay 'cut' ! And I have a college degree in the health care field !

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    thanks OP I needed to be reminded of this!! As much as I hate it sometimes I just know I'd be miserable in a regular job. Hourly wages are not for me!

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    Default Re: Get a real job!

    Never a wage slave again
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    Glad you all liked my post! Fuck haters, most of them are just judging us based of the movies anyways. Smh.

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    I say people who think like that really aren't worth my time! I do not even consider being a wage-slave an option recently, I will make my money on my terms in any way I chose and if I get naked doing it that's my business.

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    Quote Originally Posted by xcatxbrownx View Post
    I say people who think like that really aren't worth my time! I do not even consider being a wage-slave an option recently, I will make my money on my terms in any way I chose and if I get naked doing it that's my business.
    I agree lmfao!

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    Enjoy stripping / sex work too much and you "don't know what real work is". Yet state the negatives and your "soul is damaged", naturally.

    The various "She CANNOT do right!" ways society go about condemning us is pathetic and would actually be comedic if it wasn't such a big problem.
    To them I say, "Excuse me whilst I wipe my tears with this £50 note. Not real work? This isn't Monopoly money sweetheart, now how about we get you to the club for a trial night so you can see how this isn't "real" work..."




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    Quote Originally Posted by Incantatious View Post
    Enjoy stripping / sex work too much and you "don't know what real work is". Yet state the negatives and your "soul is damaged", naturally.

    The various "She CANNOT do right!" ways society go about condemning us is pathetic and would actually be comedic if it wasn't such a big problem.
    To them I say, "Excuse me whilst I wipe my tears with this £50 note. Not real work? This isn't Monopoly money sweetheart, now how about we get you to the club for a trial night so you can see how this isn't "real" work..."
    I completely agree, love the monopoly comment.

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    Stripping is the only job I really can do so I don't see as many positives as I do negatives because I feel forced into the profession.

    As of right now, I'm making about minimum wage dancing so I don't really see the benefits other than "working at my leisure, job security, and no immediate superiors," though the money is too inconsistent for me to be emotionally stable. I have to talk to disgusting men that don't want to treat me decently, drink until my liver gives out, and have the same meaningless conversations over and over again. I'm so turned off by sex that I'm fairly certain I've become asexual. I feel worthless that the only reason people talk to me is because I'm attractive / large boobs.

    I use to think the same as you when I first entered the profession at eighteen. Now it's just completely destroyed me.

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    Wow I didn't look at it from your point of view. Sorry to hear that. Yes some women don't feel they have other options. Minimum wage stripping? That's insane. I know we have our occasional slow nights but nothing? YIKES! Also I don't talk to assholes, just ignore them. I think it's cool except slow nights or dumb ass dancers who want to interfere with your $. If you feel you must drink to "get through the night" I would try to find another job asap as that is a bad and potentially lethal habit. I feel if a girl can't do it sober, it isn't the thing to do.

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    I will pray for you and I'm not being facetious. You are more than large breasts and attractive person. Do you practice boundaries at work? Must you drink? I've been doing this 10 years and being sober helps a lot!!!

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    Exactly don't let me violate you for $...trust me a man can and will spend hundreds or more on you without violating you if he isn't a broke perverted loser!

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    Quote Originally Posted by lighthouse View Post
    Stripping is the only job I really can do so I don't see as many positives as I do negatives because I feel forced into the profession.

    As of right now, I'm making about minimum wage dancing so I don't really see the benefits other than "working at my leisure, job security, and no immediate superiors," though the money is too inconsistent for me to be emotionally stable. I have to talk to disgusting men that don't want to treat me decently, drink until my liver gives out, and have the same meaningless conversations over and over again. I'm so turned off by sex that I'm fairly certain I've become asexual. I feel worthless that the only reason people talk to me is because I'm attractive / large boobs.

    I use to think the same as you when I first entered the profession at eighteen. Now it's just completely destroyed me.
    This makes me sad..Ive done this for a longg time..Longer than most girls here...I know how the industry numbs u out..I know I feel it too..But u got to pull urself mentally away from the damage..The assholes u can try to avoid like the some of the girls have already said..U got to regain that sense of self...IS there something u enjoy? Like painting? or traveling? Going to museums? those are all some of my interests..U got to look at urself in the mirror and say "Im worth it! I am better than these assholes think or perceive me to be. They dont really know the real me, so fuck them really." U got to separate the work world from the real world and the real you...I entered this profession at 18 and was completely naive...Everything I have learned Ive learned the hard way..U got to realize ur worth and beat this game.

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    Oh I'll never work for anyone else again even after I'm done dancing.




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    Default Re: Get a real job!

    Whenever someone tries to tell me it's not a real job I reply "well I make real money, and probably more than you do." I love being a justified bitch.

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    Getting degrees, having a shitload of student loan debt that will take me centuries to pay off and working in the corporate world for people who could care less about you or your family made me HATE working a 'regular job'. Always scared you would be the next one fired or working mandatory overtime while my child slept under my desk, while not being offered any food or extra compensation besides the regular OT pay and still expected at work the next day on time! Never again. All the 'regular job' workers can have they 'regular jobs' while being taken advantage of in a different way.

    I've always had the thought that women who are again strippers are just mad they can't do it! And the men just need to shut they trap and continue to spend money...lol

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    ..."What a wonderful idea! Let me quit working once or twice a week and in exchange for working 5 days a week for a Fraction of what I make dancing. I get paid in cash, I pick the days I want to work, drinking champagne is borderline a job "requirement" and I can take off as many vacation weeks as I want, whenever I want. I can call in sick and use "mental exhaustion" as a legitimate excuse. I go into Victoria's Secret to buy my work "suits" and allow myself to splurge on all the shoes, makeup and perfume I want" (it's an investment after all)

    Woah, epiphany...the next career I choose has some undoubtedly large shoes to fill. And tall

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    ..."What a wonderful idea! Let me quit working once or twice a week and in exchange for working 5 days a week for a Fraction of what I make dancing. I get paid in cash, I pick the days I want to work, drinking champagne is borderline a job "requirement" and I can take off as many vacation weeks as I want, whenever I want. I can call in sick and use "mental exhaustion" as a legitimate excuse. I go into Victoria's Secret to buy my work "suits" and allow myself to splurge on all the shoes, makeup and perfume I want" (it's an investment after all)

    Woah, epiphany...the next career I choose has some undoubtedly large shoes to fill. And tall

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