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    Default Re: Does anyone with a college degree still dance as a part time job?

    Hello:
    I have a PhD in Education and would rather dance because it allows me to be at home with my baby more.I plan to keep dancing until age makes me stop,plus it is a great way to pay off college loans.

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    Can't really say I "still" dance, because I just moved here and haven't gone looking in the area yet...but after working shitty retail job after shitty waitressing job after craphole customer-service job...I'm not looking back or second-guessing or settling anymore. I'm fucking dancing again if it's the last thing I do. I will put up with as much shit as people want to toss at me IF I'm being well compensated for it. And in low-level minimum-wage jobs, I'm not. *end rant*.

    Anyway, I'm graduating with a BA in Music and Pre-physical therapy next fall. In order to practice physical therapy, one needs a masters. But what i really want to do while I still am young enough to have a chance, is try to make it as a professional opera singer. it's been my dream since as far back as I can remember. But waiting tables and working as a secretary just isn't going to allow me to pursue that dream, financially or time-wise.

    If I don't make it, or I burn out on dancing in a few years, I can see myself going to grad school, getting licensed and doing PT while still singing opera wherever/whenever I can. But grad school will always be there. Making it as a singer gets less and less likely with every passing year.

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    I still danced while I was getting ready to defend my phd, and I was already teaching at the community college at that point.

    the only reason I gave it up was that time was getting too tight. I couldn't manage the comute to where I danced, plus thehours there, plus still managing the day job.

    I keep thinking about going back to dancing in the summer though.

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    I have an MD as well ... but it's useless right now..besides i want to much and too much freedom to stop dancing.

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    I am completing my Masters degree abroad, have danced for about a yr but have taken about a month-long break....and am missing dancing soo much and considering dancing out here in France! I love

    1)working for myself and making my own money

    2) blowing guy's off when they're being assholes

    3)having guy's fall all over themselves to give you money, not that this happens all the time but it IS nice when you have someone flag you down from all the way across the room and ask for VIP or treat you like a little celebrity...

    4)Making more than triple my salary from any other 'straight' job

    I also like that this job forces me to

    5)take care of my body and image and keeps me relatively healthy (if I can stop my love affair with Long Island's and the occasional cig I'd be good to go!!!).
    and...tadaa...

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    I danced while I was in college, but quit after graduating. I've been out of school for three years now, working in my field on a freelance basis and trying to establish myself. I started dancing again a few weeks ago for extra money, and because I honestly missed it.

    After a few attempts at 'normal' jobs, I think I'm just not suited for regular employment. In fact, I hate hate HATE being an 'employee' -- making money for someone else, on their schedule, at their whim. As a dancer, I'm essentially my own boss, working by myself, setting my own goals. And then, I actually enjoy the job. Some days it can be boring or annoying, but most of the time it's way more or an adventure than putting on pantyhose and sitting at a computer all day.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Crissychan
    I was against any job that told me anything on me was too short or tight.....
    ROFLMAO... that's got to be the best post yet!!!

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    Quote Originally Posted by Lola Lee
    True, but there is the factor of dead space on the resume, not to mention that combined with age discrimination. Suppose, you decide to quit dancing in your 30's sometime, how are you going to explain to an employer what you have been doing for the past 10 years or so since you have been in college? Other than entry level, secreterial type jobs (unless you have a specialty degree such as nursing, etc.) I think it is going to be tough getting a decent job when you over the prime hiring age and have no real work expericence, even with a good ol' bachelors degree.

    Don't get me wrong, I am VERY proud of my degree. But I get more satisfaction from knowing I have a solid education rather than considering it a safety net for a good job. The best safety net you can have is SAVING your money and investing it.
    Quote Originally Posted by Melonie
    This is the reason that I have 'rethought' my advice on this subject. I used to subscribe to the theory of 'dance part time and finish your degree at all costs'. However, because of the fact that most dancers have a limited 'peak earnings' like professional athletes, working part time versus working full time costs a student dancer a significant amount of lost potential income.

    Also, outsourcing and other changes in economic outlook have basically rendered some degrees virtually worthless. I know several dancers who danced 2 days a week in the late 90's in order to pursue IT degrees - got their degrees 2-3 years ago - and found that they couldn't afford to quit dancing and take a job in what is left of the IT field. These girls would have been FAR ahead money wise to dance full time during their 'peak earning years' from say age 20-24, to have banked the money, and then today at age 25 quit dancing and use their savings to attend college full time and obtain a degree which is actually marketable in today's economy.

    Instead, the girls in my example are now approaching age 30, are still dancing albeit with less earnings potential than 10 years ago, and can't afford to quit dancing in order to obtain a different degree which will actually land them a 'straight job' with adequate earnings potential.
    These are EXCELLENT responses and every dancer should understand these circumstances. A degree means nothing without field experience. I can not go back to my straight, degree-using job because I have been a dancer with a big fat whole in my resume. If I ever go back, I need to have an internship (typically unpaid). To get that internship, I must take a few classes, prove my worth (again), live off savings, then find a job.

    For me, I wish I had danced first, saved a bunch, retired, then gone to school.

    I sincerely hope that the dancers without degrees do not feel bad for not pursuing or completing education after high school. You shouldn't. If you plan to, that's great. There's plenty of time in the future. If you do not, that's fine too. We all have different paths in life. Some are marked with paper. Some aren't.

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    I have a B.A in dance...yeah, ironic I know . I also teach dance part time..

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    Quote Originally Posted by Picaresque
    Can't really say I "still" dance, because I just moved here and haven't gone looking in the area yet...but after working shitty retail job after shitty waitressing job after craphole customer-service job...I'm not looking back or second-guessing or settling anymore. I'm fucking dancing again if it's the last thing I do. I will put up with as much shit as people want to toss at me IF I'm being well compensated for it. And in low-level minimum-wage jobs, I'm not. *end rant*.
    WOW!! You took the words right outta my mouth!

    I am currently working on my second degree with plans to attain my BS/MNA. I plan to dance unti I get my BA. After that I have to have 1 year experience in my field to pursue my Masters. So until then I'll keep dancing to pay my bills, my tuition, and to purchase my own home. And by the time I reach my goal, I'll make enough so that I won't miss the money from the club. Not to say that I won't miss the adrenaline rush from being on stage or from counting all my stacks of money.

    Also, when I dance I am almost fanatic about how well I take care of my body. I can tell that my custies appreciate it too, and that's another confidence booster/money maker. Even with some of the *ssholes that I run into sometimes, I love dancing and someone's gonna have to pry my 8" heels from my cold, dead hands!! LOL
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    i have a bachelor's degree and tried to make ends meet working a regular job 9-5, in a job that i really liked and cared about, but i was constantly stressed about money. i decided to switch to part time at that job and start dancing about a month ago and honestly i have not felt this relaxed about my financial situation since i got out of college 4 years ago.

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    I have a bachelor's degree in marketing and I dance full time-it's more fun than any "normal" jobs I've had!

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    I am working on my mba. Although I fully plan on doing the naton wide job hunt as soon as I graduate and get my resume looking good, I have to say this. Working ITC has taught me more about people and life than collee ever thought of teaching me. I have been dancing for four yrs, started when I was 18. You really do learn a lot about ppl in the club. I have deffinitly learned how to use my looks and charm to land me the job I want when the time is right. I know that I will be able to present myself well in an interview as I talkto ppl all the time about personal stuff. Dancing has prepared me for the kind of life I wish to have.
    I make good money dancing, but it isnt 6 figures. Anyone with a masters can earn 6 figures or close to it if they hunt the market. I know, I have seen it done. When I was working on my Associates I was offered a job making 70g a yr. Here that is really good money. Cost of living is lower here than anywhere else in the us. Most ppl make closer to 25-30g. I turned the job down because it was a full time job and was scared that if I took the job I would not feel the need to continue my education since I already have a really good job. I think I made the right choice. I look forward to quitting but I will never get rid of my stripper gear as it is money in a bag waiting to be made if hard times arise.

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    i'm no longer dancing but i started after i graduated from college with a political science major. I worked 2 straight jobs and then went full-time once I was accepted to law school. I did early acceptance so I worked almost a year before I started law school. I'm thinking about trying to waitress at a strip club after I take the bar (i'd strip but I know my man wouldn't approve) but I won't have time once I start really working.

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    I've got a degree, worked about 3 years in the real world and am going right back into the club. As someone said earlier, in 3 night sI'm making twice what I was in my nonprofit job. No brainer. It would be different if I could find some sort of incredibly fulfilling career that was a labor of love, but I just don't know if that exists for me. I'm like that guy in Office Space. What would I do if I won a million dollars? Nothing. Absolutely nothing. Stripping is as close to nothing as I can get and yet I'm making significant cash. Again, no brainer.

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    I danced in college to pay for a bachelors in communications. Then after graduation, spent about three years as a news reporter, first in radio and then at a newspaper. Actually, the first job was as an indentured surf, and the second was as a peasant for peanuts. Neither qualified as what I would consider "journalism" in any socially significant form of the word. Both are dying industries dominated by men with blinders on. (Check that, radio is predominately boys with blinders on.)

    I quit that to go back to dancing. Not only do I feel confident doing it, but also the money and free time are important so I can care for and spend time with my chronically ill partner. (A "normal" job that pays less doesn't offer dependent health insurance coverage for a same sex partner, thankyouverymuch.) I'm trying to save and invest to be secure enough to get out of dancing before I turn 30 in 2007. I also have insider status at a friend's Internet services company, and whenever possible, I take on side jobs producing web sites and web content to fill in my resume gap.

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    I have a college degree and I dance full time. I started college when I was 17, didn't know what to do, just went to school. I actually majored in dance, har-har. I'd rather strip than teach dance though, at least for right now

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    I graduated this summer with plans to go onto graduate school to persue a Ph.D in psychology. Needless to say, I strip to pay the bills.
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    I was dancing and chilling out for 3 years in Holland, Belgium and US... but now I´m back in Italy and I enrolled myself again to the university to finish my master in Foreign Languages and Literatures...
    Anyway I´ve been doing many job interviews this past month and everybody asks me what I´ve been doing the past 3 years... lukily the last months I worked in the import-export in Holland ... otherwise I really wouldn´t know what to say! So I manage to find a gr8 job which pays good and make me travel a lot and when I´ll move out from my parents´house (hopefully my appartment should be ready soon) I want to dance in the weekends in Milaan and every holiday I plan to go to US .
    I confess if it would be for me... I would dance and gips around the world for all my life as I did in the last 3 years... but I would not buy a house in this way, I would get trouble with tax in the EU and in 10 years let´s say... when I want to look for a normal job... nobody would take me seriously as I was chilling out (in their opinion!) for 10+ years

    About dancers with degree... well... I must say that in my opinion in US there are more college aducated people than in Europe. In Holland and Belgium there where a lot of country girls with at last high school aducation and some even without that! There were some "ethernal lost students" as me ... but really few people with a real degree.
    I must say that in Europe it works much different than in US... here you can have big troubles with tax office and stripping is not considered as a 'job', so there are a lot of single moms, junks, people without education, people with debs and so on. In the club where I worked in Amsterdam just 2 other girls where busy with a degree but they were already over 30 so they were thinking about quitting with dancing... all other girls where without education and they were even waisting all their money day by day

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