A Real Job
jackslash
Detroit strip clubs
She told me she had been making $11 an hour, which is about $23,000 a year. Besides the low pay, she had to work 5 days a week. And the work was boring.
That's the problem with "real jobs." They're boring. They consume too much of your time. And they don't pay enough.
Stripping is, I believe, a good career choice for young women who have good looks and little education. They can earn much more money than they could in an office or fast food joint, and the stripper money comes free of annoying income tax and payroll tax deductions. They can work 6 hours a day for 3 or 4 days a week, setting their own hours. And they can enjoy a party atmosphere of drinking, dancing and music. Having spent my whole life in "real jobs," I envy the stripper lifestyle.
Stripping does have its downside, of course. Dancers do not have medical or other employee benefits, and if they don't pay FICA they don't earn social security credits. They don't participate in a retirement plan. They don't have a career path and they don't gain experience that will help them to get other jobs. Dancers have a short career, where they can expect to make less money as they grow older.
Still, for a young, attractive woman, stripping sounds better than a real job.
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Would you want your own daughter doubt it or a real job?
Then I realized, oh yeah, I'd don't want to be looking over my shoulder all the time, plus maybe get caught and thrown in jail. Besides, it's wrong and I'm not about ripping off people. In the end, it's a choice and choices have consequences.
Stripping is basically legal, but there's still choice involved. I agree with SuperDude - as with any high-income, short-lived lifestyle (pro sports players, movie actors, etc.), the smart stripper would earn while she could, invest well, and augment her life with the proceeds long after she decides to enter the "real" world of work. I've known a handful of strippers who've done just that - more power to'em.
The reasoning in this thread is completely narcissistic. We decide what we want - more strippers, and then rationalize why it's good for them. We only look at the benefits, and only from the economic angle (and only brief look at the negatives from the economic angle). "Confirmation biase" at work.
When someone tries to bring the other factors into the picture, get a little more empathy in the picture, by bringing it closer to home and asking what it was their own daughter it's dismissed as "another question".
Assuming I had children I wouldn't want my daughter or son flipping burgers for $18,000 a year either. Nor would I really want them in the military though I have the utmost respect for the jobs.
Are there negatives? Sure. But to dismiss all the positives and only shout about one negative (which is debatable) is just as bad as ignoring the said negative.
than she did in a week with full time work.
Went back to the pole every time!
And on an hourly basis pays VERY, VERY well.
After clubbing for the last 20 yrs, I can understand the lure of the money in dancing over low paying jobs.
Can stripping be a 'good' job? Well it really depends. If the girls is investing in a house, mutual fund, education, then yeh it makes sense.
But how many dancers follow through on that? Not a lot IME. Most piss all they money away immediately on booze, drugs, douch BFs. Even the ones who start off as a 'temporary' gig fall into the trap of the party life and can't get out because everything else pays less.
The biggest problem is the fact that there is no resume experience so when they graduate, they can't possibly make enough money to leave so they keep going back. The job restricts and is a barrier from them to do anything else.