From Jobless To Topless

[ILBurbsGuy]

That was a headline in today's paper. The point of the story is that with the increase in unemployment, many more women, including well educated women, were applying for such jobs as dancing at strip clubs and acting in adult films. What do people think about this? Will it interfere with the ability to return to a job in the corporate world when the economy improves? How many women would consider this if they were faced with this situation or have already done so?

 

[jomar]

I just started my first cup of coffee so I'm having trouble narrowing down where to start with the jokes.

 

[oggbashan]

Where I live, topless waiting staff (M and F), pole and lap dancing and strip-tease equates to a alcohol-selling business about to collapse and indicates the last stage before bankrupcy.

It is not a worthwhile career choice. Apart from any tips from the punters your earnings might be a pay-check that bounces and a demand for tax that your employer hadn't paid on your behalf.

Og

 

[Huckleman2000]

Strip clubs in the US sometimes work where the dancers actually pay the club, as if they are contractors hiring the space to do business.

 

[Katyusha]

Strip clubs in the US sometimes work where the dancers actually pay the club, as if they are contractors hiring the space to do business.

I heard about that. A lot of them have to pay something like $75 a night to dance there; and they have to do a lot of lap dances and private dances in order to make that back plus make the money they need to pay the bills.

I wouldn't say that it's not a worthwhile career choice; a lot of strippers do it because it pays the bills and feeds their children. In an economy like this, where the corporations just aren't hiring, women can at least turn to these kinds of occupations and help keep food on the table and a roof over their families' heads. Whether or not it'll hurt their chances to get a corporate job again after the economy improves is tough to say; a lot of corporations look down on women who've been dancers and will pass them over, possibly for a less-qualified candidate.

There's too much of a stigma placed on dancers that makes them less-than-desirable as professionals. My problem with that is that after you've been laid off, if you go too long without being able to get another corporate job, you get to a point where you'll take any job at all in order to keep bringing in a paycheck. Any paycheck, because something is better than nothing. But even in a good economy you have a lot of dancers who are dancing to put themselves through college, they are smart and educated, and remain dancers because even though they now have a degree (and may have a degree that's in demand and graduated with honors) they're still stigmatized and corporations don't want somebody on staff whose morals are "questionable." And they refuse to understand why a lot of women chose that route at some point in their lives.

 

[cloudy]

But even in a good economy you have a lot of dancers who are dancing to put themselves through college, they are smart and educated, and remain dancers because even though they now have a degree (and may have a degree that's in demand and graduated with honors) they're still stigmatized and corporations don't want somebody on staff whose morals are "questionable." And they refuse to understand why a lot of women chose that route at some point in their lives.

They also may stick with dancing because at one of the higher-class clubs, they make in a night what would take them two weeks to earn at a corporate job.

I had a friend in college who went that route. I haven't talked to her in years, but at the time, she was pulling in over a thousand dollars a night, and only working two or three nights a week - and this was in the late 80's.

Hell...for that money, I'd stay in the club, too.

 

[lesbiaphrodite]

At the high-end gentlemen's clubs, the girls make amazing amounts of money if they're attractive and if they have the acting talent required to make the money. I knew quite a few that used to work at a reputable place and one earned on average $1,500 a night. On special occasions and holidays, she earned even more. That's good, good money by any definition.

 

[voluptuary_manque]

At the high-end gentlemen's clubs, the girls make amazing amounts of money if they're attractive and if they have the acting talent required to make the money. I knew quite a few that used to work at a reputable place and one earned on average $1,500 a night. On special occasions and holidays, she earned even more. That's good, good money by any definition.

And dancing keeps them in shape and attractive, experience makes them better and better, so with a well balanced investment package they could do really well and retire young. Such a deal!

 

[R. Richard]

I'm in the process of finishing a book, co-authored by a famous porn star. Part of the book touches on things like nude dancing bars and what the girls can make in the back rooms. If a girl has the looks, the build and doesn't have what it takes to be a major company CEO in a few years, she can still make CEO money by working her shifts at the nude dancing bar. The crap shifts, like Tuesday or Wednesday might make her only $1,000 to maybe $2,000 a night at a top of the line place. However a Friday or Saturday shift gets her into the big money.

 

[cantdog]

Bottoms

There's a truism about this situation, having to do with the fact that pussy is priced like a luxury. An old man can sink to the bottom, but there are certain poor choices available to women which prevent them from having to sink quite so low. But there are too many double entendres about the relative bottoms. I wouldn't dare start such a discussion here on Lit.

Not me.

 

[driphoney]

That was a headline in today's paper. The point of the story is that with the increase in unemployment, many more women, including well educated women, were applying for such jobs as dancing at strip clubs and acting in adult films. What do people think about this? Will it interfere with the ability to return to a job in the corporate world when the economy improves? How many women would consider this if they were faced with this situation or have already done so?

Well, as long as the "well educated" women are doing it.

 

[Dragonlipz]

The bikini barista at the expresso stand

related to me that she used to make $1,000 - $3,000 a night dancing in the club.....but decided to devote herself to providing a perfect cuppa expresso after a divine inspiration.....