money is an addiction..... back to dancing.
poledancer83
Narnia
work a week at a regular job and made what i could make in one good night in a week. So here i am again back to dancing. Been back for a little bit and it amazes me the money difference between stripping and working a regular job. Maybe one day i'll leave but when the money is that great its hard to even think about it....
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Good luck and nice to know you will be contributing again.
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I think it would be hard as hell to leave a career where a person can travel, name their own hours, make decent cash (no taxes) to go work in structured environment.
But like many here can tell you those things should be temporary even though success in the real working world is not something that comes overnight. It does take time and hard work. I remember my first job out of college making a bullshit $8/hr. Now what I used to make in a day, I make in like an hour of work.
One day, stripping won't be an option for you, you know that. It's delayed gratification, but the sooner you get acclimated in the workforce, the sooner your serviceable skillset will grow. Good luck to you but welcome back for now.
A stepping stone out of that might be to management or to a jewelry counter to sell jewelry. But ultimately, you are going to need schooling (College or a Trade) to get skills and an education for a career that pays more money.
Just know that college + good grades doesn't exactly mean it money and a career will be handed to you either. I fell for that trap because I fell for some bad advice. It makes time and persistence to make it plus don't forget to expand the network of people you know. Every "good" job I've had had been due to knowing the right people and being in the right place at the right time. None of the traditional "application process" hasn't worked for me. The people hiring say the same thing (it doens't work for them either; they all say applicants are unqualified). References and referred applicants tend to get matched better. So don't forget to make contacts. That's been my experience.
Don't forget the guys and lopaw here all have vanilla jobs that pay for all the tips that get spent in strip clubs. So think about that for a second. .... It can be done.
I guess it's hard to pass up easy money or easier money.
Guys have a weakness for beautiful things and act irrational after seeing that. Pretty girls count. That explains why we're willing to spend 10, 20, or even 30 bucks for a two or three minute song while a dancer just gyrates around in front of us with no sex taking place. If you asked the same guy at work if he would be willing to work 2 or 3 hours on a job he doesn't like if you dance around for a few minutes, the answer probably would be no. It would be no if she wasn't pretty if the guy was rational. I think nude clubs have an advantage. The guys see the pussy and they start throwing money around. Of course strip club regulars get used to it and adjust somewhat. I know I spent a lot more in tips in nude clubs. The lap dances at nude clubs I visited were all hands off so I usually wasn't interested in very many lap dances.
Requires a bit of austerity and control over will power for the long long ...long life.
1. She only made $11 an hour.
2. They deducted SS taxes and income taxes.
3. They expected her to work all the time.
Stripping definitely has some advantages.
There are lots of places on the internet where you can research high-paying, in demand jobs that only require a two-year degree. Go ahead and keep dancing for now, but start going to school so you have something to look forward to.
http://www.collegequest.com/top-high-pay…
It is mainly up to you to change your mind, body and listent to your thru self.
The answer to your question is called "Living within your means", learn the difference between what you need and what you want, if you do this right you will have the life you really need to be happy.
This is a link to a video about consumerism and how the system makes you buy things you don't need, but somehow want....
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Gorqroi…
"The Story of Stuff is a short animated about the lifecycle of material goods.
The documentary is critical of excessive consumerism and promotes sustainability."
I hope you find it interesting.
Good luck on your recovery from this terrible addiction .
You should focus on using dancing to set you up for the future (instead of just thinking about the next shift) - be focused and use dancing to get you to your next phase in your life - be disciplined and focused, save some $$$; start getting ready for another career (taking classes; etc) instead of getting wasted on your shift and partying - see dancing as a vehicle to set you up for a future better life vs just living in the strip-club moment - drink water instead of alcohol and keep your goals in mind (but get some goals first by doing some diligent research)
Those women in the organization I am building, those coming from strip clubs and other sex work, will never be pressured to retire. But they will be getting good second career development, and then as they do move to retire, they will be getting a better financial safety net then they would get from sex work or marriage. They get these back ups, as they develop second careers.
SJG
Dont smoke weed. Learn a skill that isn't minimum wage.
SJG
Stones - Soul Survivor
https://youtu.be/GvsUk45K6nE?list=PLFFC0…
SJG
That's how strip clubs stay in business - dancers are addicted to $$$ and PLs are addicted to pussy
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internatio…
For me, the "regularity" IS the very problem. I don't want to go to the same place twice in a week. I don't want to get up early very often. I don't want to do the same thing more than twice in a row before being asked to do something entirely different. I don't want to know what my week will be like in one month, or in three months, or in six years. I don't want to know that my work setting is as neutralized and "normal" and AS MUCH like everyone else's, as possible. I don't want to see the same people every day.
For me, "regularity" is also "oppression." I just feel like a "normal" job is "just too much." If I work all day Monday, then I need Tuesday and Wednesday to recover. Basically, my brain works like that of a stripper, it's just trapped in a male body. I want reward NOW, not deferred, largely because I DON'T TRUST my employer not to either (a) fire me because I wore the wrong shoelaces, or (b) go out of business because they invested in cat-herding equipment, so I don't really feel very good about putting in effort for some kind of deferred reward.
I think if I could get excited about some line of business that involved something I thought MATTERED, I would be very good at entrepreneurial ventures in it, given my insistence on being non-regular and on having my work somehow engender a "passion" in me. But I also kind of think that work, itself, in other words participation in an economic market in the name of gaining money, is PRECISELY the thing which MOST turns me off of any endeavor. Consequently, I would never be able to gain "passion" about any subject that also brought me profit. Thus, perfect full circle, I could never be an entrepreneur?
In the long run, I see "regular" work as a way to cause dupes and rubes to buckle under the fist of the oppressor. And I see MOST of the oppressors as people who, also, don't even know that they're buckling down under the fists of people higher up, oppressing them too. But I don't see a solution to the problem.
Another w ay to put it. People who are born into investments and connections that inherently and automatically gain them profit -- Dick Cheney, Mitt Romney, Donald Trump, Hillary Clinton -- need people who are NOT to do their dirty work for them. Otherwise, they'd never be able to sit back and invest and thus "let their money do their work for them." Consequently, every time I accept a "regular" job, I'm simply being the "do their work for them" part of Hillary Clinton's or Donald Trump's "let their money" equation. Those people do show up for work at an office, but when they're there, they don't worry that they can't pick up the kids at the day-care, because they can ALREADY afford a taxi, or a concierge service, or sending the kids off to a private school that doesn't require pick-up at times too early for convenience. Basically, they HAD money to make money; if you start too poor to get enough money that you can make money, then your experience at a "regular" job will always be, that the job takes away more than it gives, therefore you can't save to get up out of the job, therefore you have to continue to work at that lame-ass job, therefore you lose. Vicious cycle.
In my experience. I do what I can to get out of the "regularity" cycle. It's something inveneted by the post-industrial age, whether cynically by the capitalists to control their working population, or just accidentally by the well-meaning mothers and fathers who want little Billy to have a "productive life" that is "full of opportunity" I don't know which.
I hate regularity. That sounds like a bowel movement to me. Why would you want to speak of your life's contribution to mankind as though it were shit?
Needless to say, tl;dr.
Once Dougster and his friend put their plan into action, we are placed under whip wielding task masters, and assigned to cleaning the sidewalks with our tooth brushes, while the human race formally divides into two tiers.
And poledancer, things will change when people start building counter cultural movements. This is what I am doing.
SJG