Stripper With A PhD?
farmerart
My drilling contractor's latest crew change brought a rookie rig pig into camp. Turns out this guy has a PhD. The poetry of some eighteenth century Prussian was the subject of his PhD thesis. Now, he is working the grubbiest job on a drilling rig and seems to be handling the delights of being covered in grease and mud just fine. He has taught me some delightful obscenities that I have added to my meagre knowledge of German.
I would have thought it more probable to meet a stripper PhD than a rig pig PhD.
Any of you guys ever had a PhD squirming on your lap in a club?
I would have thought it more probable to meet a stripper PhD than a rig pig PhD.
Any of you guys ever had a PhD squirming on your lap in a club?
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This guy's monthly pay rate works out to a little over $150K/year. He had previously been working at an adjunct professorial position for less than $55K with even less job security than he has with my drilling contractor.
I've also met a few that mentioned Masters or work on a Masters but never a PhD. One claimed she got her MBA right as the economy bottomed out and couldn't find anything to cover her standard of living, I was skeptical.
BS = Bull Shit
MS = More of the Same
PHD= Piled Higher and Deeper
I used to joke with her that she had plenty of customers in the club that she could have written several thesis about. I wonder if she actually did that.
I have a current favorite working for Georgia Power as an engineer.
I've only met one dancer who claimed to be in an actual real college, and that claim stood up to some scrutiny. I've met far more who were in cosmetology school.
Met several stripoers who claimed to be in med school but when I asked some questions to see if it was true, there was just no way! Don't know why that should that be such a popular lie.
Yeah, they're the best. Why waste the evening with a waitresse discussing just how worthless their babydaddy is when you can have a most delightful ocnversation about the Dirac equation, the Higgs Boson, Feynman diagrams, and M-theory.
As for the various comments regarding PhD's in general... it depends on what field the PhD is in. Engineering, biotech = $$$$$$$$$. History, art, etc. = 0. Same is true at BS and MS levels as well. It's a crime what universities charge these days. However, in some fields (engineering, applied sciences, and such) there are high paying careers where you'll earn back the investment in your degree. There are many other degrees (history, art, english, ...) where you will be paying back you student loans for the rest of your life.
sinclair's comment about "book smart" can be true, no argument there. However, IMO, I think this is also something that varies with the background of the PhD.
That's part of why you see so many History PhD's. History and research go hand in hand.
2nd...
According to the National Science foundation's Survey of Earned Doctorates (SED) (academic year 2010), there were:
7552 PhD's awarded in engineering disciplines
4201 PhD's awarded in physics science disciplines
11148 PhD's in life sciences
963 PhD's in history
Put another way, according to NSF-SED, over 54% of all PhD's in academic year 2010 were in sciences/engineering/computers fields, where 2% PhD's were in history. Yeh, there's only 27 STEM PhDs for 1 history PhD.
https://ncses.norc.org/NSFTabEngine/#TAB…
Further to the rig pig PhD. His career hit a major barrier. The poor guy is severely allergic to walnuts. So, this tour will be the guy's first, and last, on a big rig.
Perhaps he can drop down to service rigs with my drilling contractor.
Sorry about that. Eating walnuts has nothing to do with drilling rigs.
It is the walnut shells we use frequently. Occasionally when drilling a hole the drill bit hits schist or compacted sand or something else slippery or dense that prevents the drill bit from getting hold of the material. When that happens we throw walnut shells down the hole. The shells provide just enough grit for the drill bit to get going again. Sounds weird but I swear that it is the truth. Some old-timer discovered this decades ago. We have been going through hundreds of kilos of shells the last three months.
One of the jobs of the lowest ranking rig pig is humping the big bags of walnut shells to the hopper and dumping them in when needed. This guy's severe allergy prevented him from doing that job.
When I stop to think, I realize that this sounds silly - walnut shells facilitating drilling. It really is true. In the industry we just call for walnuts, not walnut shells.
I work with a Pharmacist who stripped in order to pay for pharmacy school. She's fat and not good looking now, but I hear she's wasn't too bad looking in her younger days.
And of course, all them lawyers that stripped during law school coming back to the club as dancers with their Juris Doctor degrees.