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    Ok, I'm pissed off lately. For the last year or so I have worked on producing a sort of theatrical project. It was MAJOR stress and very hard, but everyone was proud of me and I felt happy to be doing something that people deemed "worthwhile". Well, my biz partner moved across the country and I decided I don't have the mental energy to try to go it alone and have kinda realized that I may only have been doing it to prove that I can "do something."

    When my partner moved I went through a pretty deep depression, did a lot of soul-searching, and discovered that what I REALLY want is to make a lot of money, have a maxmium amount of free time, and just live my life with a minimum amount of stress. Whereas before I was dancing sort of part time (maybe 1-2 shifts a week) and not really being very serious about it, I decided to throw myself headlong into the club and make as much money as possible without approaching burnout. So, long story short, I'm making stellar money, saving tons as my lifestyle hasn't changed, and have almost no stress in my life. I am actually...almost...happy. Finally! Woah!

    Great right? No. Every time I talk to someone that I haven't talked to in a while I have the same conversation. This happens a couple times a week:

    Them: So how's the show going?
    Me: Well, J moved away so I decided just to focus on working at the club.
    Them: (In the most condescending tone musterable): Oh. Well, hon, I'm sure you'll be able to find something soon. You're a really smart girl. (They tell me this as if to convince me.)
    Me: Uh, I found something. I make great money in a small amount of time, have low stress, and get to basically do what I want.
    Them: (Condescension doubles as they think I'm trying to rationalize) Well, good, sweetie. I'm glad you are doing ok. I'm sure it will all work out.

    One old associate called today and asked how the show was going. He offered to try to find me a job! He even said (again, as sad and condescendingly as possible), "You can't be making much there. I think a girl like you could probably be good in sales. I'd be happy to make a couple of calls for you and see what I can do."

    Alms for the poor stripper? Alms, please, gov'na!
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    ^ Random thing I remembered based off the last comment you got. My MIL keeps talking about 'helping' me find a job. What she does in clip me newspaper ads for shit like working at McDonalds and Nandos or becoming a grocery bagger!! 'Because it sounds like something you could do'... thanks!! Mother fucker... at least you're getting offers for people trying to find you DECENT jobs, this woman thinks all I'm good for is asking if you want fries with that.

    Now the rest of hat just pisses me off though. Like you're some poor lonely hard up stripper who hates her job.. ignore the fact you sd you're happy.. you're just a sad lonely stripper. Come on everyone!! Collective Sigh!! AWWWW!


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    I get this too. You know what? Let them be ignorant! I will just drive around my nice paid-off car in my abundance of free time, look fit and fabulous and ignore those comments! Sometimes I just laugh and say (in a condescending tone, of course) "Oh honey if you only knew...but I guess being a stripper would be sooo hard for someone like you. I mean, you're pretty shy, kinda repressed. You just not the type."
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    Wow, LM. That's fucked up. How ridiculously insulting.

    I seriously feel like the guy in Office Space. What would I do if I didn't have to worry about money? Probably nothing of any consequence. I'd chill out and enjoy the ride. I found a way to pretty much do that, but no one can be happy for me. Didn't you know you're not someone unless you can get a job selling widgets from a cubicle and maybe get a matching 401K and feel like the King of the World if you can manage a $1000 a year raise.

    No fucking way. I'll "slum it", thanks.

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    Oh yeah, i almost forgot. I have a story to go with this:
    Last week I had a male customer come sit at my rack, and it was slower so I decided to chat him up. Our conversation went something like this:
    ME: Hi, how's your day going?
    HIM: Well, ok. I just got off of work.
    ME: And what do you do for a living?
    HIM: (in a very self-important tone) I'm a writer.
    ME: Freelance? Staff writer? Grants? Tell me what you're working on!
    HIM: I'm selling some short stories right now. You seem to know a lot about writing work.
    ME: Well, I have an English degree.
    HIM: (look of shock on his face) Really? Wow, that is just too bad you are still doing this. (as in dancing) Why don't you look into job in your educational field?
    *At this point my song was ending, so it was PERFECT timing...
    ME: (laughing) Because this job rules and I know I make WAY more money than you. I then winked and walked off stage.
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    My family does the 'you can get a real job easily' thing all the time. They don't get that I am HAPPY stripping, and I don't want to get the 'real job' that they want me to do. I could tell them 'til I'm blue in the face, and they still wouldn't understand.

    Fuck 'em, I'm happy, and that's what counts.

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    I have nothing to offer here except BOY, can I relate.

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    I will share in the empathy! Even the daughter of the mother/daughter team that I go to for my waxing for years now said to me the other day when I was getting waxed: When are you getting a real job Vanessa? Naturally I retorted with that I have more than a job, I have a business.


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    Last weekend, I told my parents I was doing this bouncer thing, they went off on the sex industry as an abonishment to society. how it was pure evil. Did nothing good for anyone, and should um...I don't remember what exactly, but i'm pretty sure it had a book, chapter, and verse appended to it.

    I casually asked if watching anal porn was part of their research to conclude these thoughts, as the first porno I'd ever seen had come out of their closet.

    First time in 30 years I've ever seen my mother go silent.

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    I woulda been like " So whats it like slaving over someones vagina all day " and getting paid like 60 bucks?

    Fucking douches. I hate people.

    Thankfully my parents realize it's a job. And that I wont crawl to them begging for money since I can effectively make my own.

    I also put it to them like this ( and anyone else that wants to test their fate with my wit )

    Where in the hell else, can I get into an entry level job.. make 6 figures a year, vacation when I want and however long I want. Move if I want. And have a job in any part of the fucking world . No other job offers what I have.

    I get the " you know you can't do this forever " bit since I"m almost 30. I Just always say " well when I get too old to do this , I'll just sell my trailer quit smokin' meth to save me some money and have a few more of them there babies for welfare checks . Hell honey I might just get me one of them there smart mens . I hear they gots themselves good paychecks " Sometimes I go as far as to saying how I sell a kidney or take up shooting ping pong balls outta my vagina in mexico.

    Usually shuts em' up

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    novelidea: You. Did. Not.


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    O I so did. Working with me ..seriously has to be a riot somedays. Depending on my mood I can really fuck with someones head.

    I hate it though when people don't get that I'm joking.

    Then it's sorta lost on them.

    I also tell people that I can't hear them over their loud shirts . That their complaining is giving me cramps and when guys are super laying it on thick like with the overly sweet comments to come back to their room i'll say " all that sweet talk is giving me a yeast infection baby "

    I got a 20 out from that once followed by " here you go you sick bitch " I said THanks! and hopped away.

    I stare at customers when they are mean ..I swear to god for MINUTES> finally someone just gives me 20 bucks to go away.

    A guy the other night found me and said " where you the girl just dancing on stage "

    I said "yes"

    He says " OH that latex on your boobs, not so attractive "

    I said " That recieding hair line...not so attractive "

    point is fuck arguing..just talk shit.

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    ^^^^



    Yeast infection! You kill me.

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    Fuck those people. I'm glad you know better than to believe them now.



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    When I grow up, I want to have the wit of novelidea. Seriously, that was effing funny.

    *Makes mental notes of novelidea & tart's smartass remarks, because she has to see her family next weekend*

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    Trust me, it's more of a curse than anything.

    chew on this one:

    It's thanksgiving 4 years ago. Your family has invited your ex fiance, her new stockbroker boyfriend, and both families.."because we've gotten so close" they say. After actually sitting in a pshrink's office for 3 hours, figuring out how to cope with the development that my parents are insane, I came up with a plan.

    I had my prize clothing posession, a wool armani suit (that I saved for like, 300 years for) pressed, got the matching shoes polished, bought a fresh set of sox, a new cologne, borrowed my rich friend's rolex, threw a hundred bucks on my mastercard for a bottle of champagne, and went to dinner, sans pants.

    When my mom gave a shocked look and screamed in fright, I was like:

    "Damn it, did I leave the collar of my shirt twisted under my tie again?"

    I figured i had a one way ticket to awkward town, my parents were driving.

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    Yeah...this is why my family doesnt get to know what I do. Their uber-Catholic minds would never grasp that this is GOOD for me.

    Hell..my parents had to go to church counseling before they got married. Including marital relations counseling. Yeah...please let the guy who has taken a vow of celibacy tell me how best to freaky-deak my new wife. Great idea...

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    Quote Originally Posted by novelidea View Post

    I had my prize clothing posession, a wool armani suit (that I saved for like, 300 years for) pressed, got the matching shoes polished, bought a fresh set of sox, a new cologne, borrowed my rich friend's rolex, threw a hundred bucks on my mastercard for a bottle of champagne, and went to dinner, sans pants.

    Hor fireman with no pants? PLEASE oh PLEASE tell me you have a pic!!!


    Sorry...I have a bit of a "thing" for firemen....

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    that's so irritating dottie. i think some customers really believe that all of us strippers are fragile helpless beings.

    i get that kind of thing when i tell customers who know me that i'm taking the summer off from school. they always give me the "oh no, that means you're quitting school" speech.

    i also love it when i tell people i'm an art major and they "feel bad" for me. even when i tell them i want to go into the film industry they say stuff like "is there any need for -artists- (they always strain that word) in the film industry?"

    no. i just figured i'd aim for something impossible. *SIGH*

    of COURSE there are.

    i also get this conversation about art:

    (after i mention "visual arts degree")
    customer: (in condescending/confused voice) ooohh.. so you like...paint and stuff??"
    me: ...................yes........... "and stuff"
    customer: well that explains why you're dancing (or some other such, you can't make money at that comment)
    me: i just sold a painting for 300 dollars yesterday
    customer: REALLY???????????????????????????????
    me: .........................yes


    i love how customers "tell me" about how "hard it's going to be" for me when i graduate. you know, as if i'm 8 years old and i have no idea how the big wide scary world works... or that i've never thought about the industry i want to go into before.

    sometimes i feel like saying "BUT BUT.. i just like all the pretty colors!!!!"

    oh and.. when i tell customers i used to teach and they ask me why i quit.. i always bring up money as a part of it and i LOVE it when they tell me "but teaching pays really well" and they aren't kidding.
    i want to be like........ "where the fuck have you been?"

    or they say "my sister makes blahblahblah teaching" and neglect to mention that their sister lives in another state/country/works for harvard

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    Quote Originally Posted by Pretty_Penny View Post
    (after i mention "visual arts degree")
    customer: (in condescending/confused voice) ooohh.. so you like...paint and stuff??"
    me: ...................yes........... "and stuff"
    customer: well that explains why you're dancing (or some other such, you can't make money at that comment)
    me: i just sold a painting for 300 dollars yesterday
    customer: REALLY???????????????????????????????
    me: .........................yes
    I weep for my fellow man.

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    Quote Originally Posted by novelidea View Post
    I weep for my fellow man.
    why do you say that?

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    Quote Originally Posted by Pretty_Penny View Post
    why do you say that?
    Allow me to put my community college psych classes to work. It's been like 5 years, and I'm out 300 bucks or so from 'em.

    Sounds to me like they were trying to hit on you. Yeah..brainwave thought on my part right?

    Well, take it out of context. Let's say you're sitting on a park bench, and someone comes up, trashes your goals, dreams, and desires, and suggests you go into one of the most underpaid and underappreciated jobs on the planet....just like his sister.

    Yeah, i'd be impressed with his skills too.

    Actually..I'd weep.
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    I hate that shit, but what I hate even more is that I am sometimes compelled to "defend" myself by telling them that I have a degree and am choosing to dance. And then I start talking about my next educational goal. I don't know why I feel like I have to defend myself, especially to asshole customers, but part of me wants to make sure they know that I'm not doing the job because I have no other skills.

    But really, I don't have any other skills (jobwise, that is). Dancing is my career, no matter what kind of degree I have. I'm working toward another career in the future, but for now this is it. When you've worked the same kind of job for over ten years you can consider that a fucking career, and a much better paying one than if I'd stayed in that cubicle for ten years.
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    i kept a journal of my time this week...it really showed me how much time i spend alone just to avoid SMALL MINDED PEOPLE like this!!!! I swear i'm gonna start wearing a yes, im a stripper tshirt just so i can fuck with people's little brains on the street. When i'm at work i don't have time to defend i gotta get my money...but ooooooh it kills me that people don't get that a woman can decide to get paid well for just being smart and beautiful...cracks me up how everyone always want to help...*sigh*...poor us we need to be saved from all the freedom, money and being able to live life by our design...lol
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    Quote Originally Posted by novelidea View Post
    Last weekend, I told my parents I was doing this bouncer thing, they went off on the sex industry as an abonishment to society. how it was pure evil. Did nothing good for anyone, and should um...I don't remember what exactly, but i'm pretty sure it had a book, chapter, and verse appended to it.

    I casually asked if watching anal porn was part of their research to conclude these thoughts, as the first porno I'd ever seen had come out of their closet.

    First time in 30 years I've ever seen my mother go silent.
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