"'When you’re an ecdysiast [striptease performer], you walk into work saying a prayer. Either you leave the club a few hours later with $2,000, or you stay the entire night and leave with less money than you entered.'"
I don't think I've ever heard a stripper use the word "ecdysiast." Does she know it's meant as a humorous, highfalutin term?


"Loaned money to friends and relatives" - read deadbeat boyfriends
"Took lots and lots of vacations" - read she already blew all the money
I think using the term "ecsysiast" is her justification she really wants a stripper.
If she's going into education she may want to stick to the stripper job on the side.