Like an exit strategy, If so, what was it? Did you follow through with it. Are you happy with the results, what would you have changed.
Like an exit strategy, If so, what was it? Did you follow through with it. Are you happy with the results, what would you have changed.





No. I was working for a road builder as a heavy equipment operator and hated dealing with seasonal layoffs, where you went on wage-attached unemployment. So it got me out of having to deal with that.
Written on the walls at the house of sorrow
You can find the names of those who burned
Greater yet, the pain in little drawings
I could not remain in that room



Honestly, not really. I was shopping and spending like crazy in the first 3-4 years. But later, got financially wiser.
Yes, to strengthen my character, lose my shyness and to save enough money to buy a real estate and to start a real business. It's going according to plan, but little slower than expected. The girls from the club told me that a couple of years ago it was much easier and more money.


Yes, I had a plan and except for one year where I followed my girlfriend to another country for her work, I've pretty much stuck to my plan. I'll be finishing up my MBA this coming spring, and have a job lined up upon graduation. I don't think I would have survived if not for having a plan.





I never plan anything more than 3 days in advance.
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My plan was to dance for a few years. I assumed I'd quit around 25-26 and finish school. I'm almost 31 and done with school, but I'm not ready to quit yet. The only thing I would have done differently was focus on college( right after high school) and not party so much in my early 20s
No I was very young when I started and I had no plans, nothing in particular that I needed or was saving up for, and just kind of went for it one day without really thinking about it.



My plan was to pay off my boob job. I did that and then I got used to the money - I could have been a lot smarter with my earnings to be honest. I had some nice vacations, bought nice jewellery, ate at nice restaurants, I wasted a lot on my ex boyfriend, fixing up his house when I lived with him, when I could have been saving the deposit for my own house. But I also did good things like buy my dad a new washing machine and stuff. My advice is to save and invest at least a third of your earnings.





" A year " to pay bills ( recession )
10 years later ..... still at it part time. I have had multiple " retirements ". Haha .





I just started dancing so maybe I'm able to answer this because I just started or maybe my opinion doesn't matter. This is something I've been wanting to do for awhile & I know I'm moving to another area soon and figured it would be good to dance where I'm at now in case I found that it wasn't for me. That way when I move nobody knows about it. I'm not really worried about most people knowing just my X family and friends because they will never let that go.
I hope to do it as long as I'm making money and can enjoy it. Allows me to have mother daughter time along with my other full time job.
No, it was the first job somebody would give me


I keep coming back to it! I try other jobs, other routes since my college didn't exactly wind me up where I'd envisioned. I try other schooling and options but sex work is where it's at for me right now so why not!?
I didn’t start with a plan, but I have one now! I’m saving towards starting my own business, and I plan to dance until the income from that is enough to live comfortably
Yes, my plan as a senior in high school was to strip through college (just to save money, not because i needed to pay for tuition) since it had flexible scheduling and the potential for high earnings. I stripped for almost exactly four years and quit soon after graduating, when i found a full-time vanilla job. All according to plan.
I danced here and there after that, just when i felt like it. I went back to dancing as a sole source of income for a year while i bolstered my resume with internships to try to get into grad school. That year of dancing definitely wasn't planned! Instead of going to grad school, i got a full-time vanilla job, which i've been doing for the last 3.5 years.
Part of me wishes i could dance every now and then for the money now, but the thought makes my current partner extremely uncomfortable. I honestly think it's probably a good thing for me to not be in that environment, in general. Casual sexual assault was a fairly common occurrence for me (even little things, like ass grabbing, etc.) , and it's kind of a negative environment in many ways, you know? I miss the money, the creative outlet, and having a dirty secret in my otherwise vanilla life. Mixed feelings, you know?
I owed 3x my vanilla salary in student loans and couldn't possibly see a light at the end of the tunnel at the time, so I didn't have a plan. I stopped and started again a few times and eventually it fizzled out naturally as scheduling became harder and the risk/benefit ratio kept swinging in the wrong direction.
"There are different kinds of darkness. There is darkness that frightens, the darkness that soothes, the darkness that is restful. There is the darkness of lovers, and the darkness of assassins. It becomes what the bearer wishes it to be, needs it to be. It is not wholly bad or good."
- The Court of Mist and Fury


I had planned to start dancing when I wanted to pay for school. I guess my exit plan was get a career? But now I have the vanilla career Ive always wanted, and I still like stripping.
Last edited by Futterwacken; 10-07-2019 at 01:15 AM.




^^^this is almost exactly my story, too.
When I started, not really. It was more of an "oh shit, I'm graduating college soon so my parents will stop helping me out, and my degree is kinda worthless and I have no idea what I'm gonna do for a job." Managed to save some money to get me through the slow summer post-graduation, but then mostly relied on vanilla jobs that didn't pay crap, trying to establish myself in the "real world." Until I was so in debt that I went back to the adult industry with the purpose of paying off debt.
Once I did, my plan changed to "go back to school until something becomes a career." Paid for several certifications out of pocket, but either ditched them or realized the lower-level cert wouldn't translate to enough money. Initially planned to do it "until I got through school for the higher cert," but ended up having some emergency bills, fell back into debt, and then quit for my current partner before I could pay it off or get done with school.
I wish I could back now to help out, or fantasize about being more focused back then. The long time I spent not putting the money toward useful things wasn't necessary. I was just young, wanted to travel or take time off more than I wanted to think about the future, and I just never really thought I'd get sick of it. I say I quit "for my partner" but I had dated someone who was actively a giant, toxic douche about my job for over a year and never considered quitting for him. Honestly, I was just burnt out and kinda done anyway by the time we started dating, and I used it as the trigger for a retirement that I had been contemplating for a year.
I did use the money for a lot of things, and completed several goals, but, as they say, life happens, and I can't say I'm where I thought I'd be, due to unforseen circumstances. But I'm grateful that I had the money at the time for certain things, and it got me as far as it did. Otherwise, I wouldn't have gone through more schooling at all, would be in even worse debt, and probably would be back living with my parents for the last few years.
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