Blueroo's post from the Camming vs. Dancing thread might be relevant here (https://www.stripperweb.com/forum/sh...=1#post2389495). Less because it's pro-camming - you can substitute 'camming' for any vanilla job - more because it accurately describes how money really isn't everything. How do you want to spend the next ten years? Cash doesn't justify ten years of wasted time (youth!) spent unhappy. Though who knows...maybe you're one of the ones who won't burn out. It's a bit of a gamble.
"Then camming. I don't make neeeeeaaaaar as much. But I'm not miserable. I don't drink. I don't feel my psyche damaged. I can leave when I need to, I don't have crying fits in the dressing room because some piece of shit stuck his finger where it didn't belong and the bouncers yelled at me for dislocating his elbow.... the bouncers I paid A LOT to protect me....
BUT I can cam longer years-wise, I can work regularly without burn out, I can do offline content/clips/etc when I am burned out.
I also realize money is NOT EVERYTHING. It's fucking awesome and I still have a hustler's mindset but you know, I was on the path of destruction. I'd much rather earn a nice, healthy middle class income with my partner's middle class income and have a nice little Dual Income No Kids family for now.
I miss the stage. My 'theme songs.' My yoga on stage. The pole. The counting cash after work. The afterparties. The haze of booze and pills and stupid amounts of income. I miss my hot pink lights that I paid the DJs to reserve for me ONLY. I miss a lot of it. But then I remember all the shit that accompanied dancing. It WAS NOT glamorous. At all."
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