[quote] Bump, grind your way to riches, students told
Students at a Palo Alto middle school learned more than school officials ever expected when a recent “career day” speaker extolled the merits of stripping and expounded on the financial benefits of a larger bust.
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According to Fried and students who attended the talk, Fried told one group of about 16 students that strippers can earn as much as $250,000 a year and that a larger bust – whether natural or augmented – has a direct relationship to a dancer’s salary.
Actually I believe the speaker to be incorrect. He said strippers can earn up to $250,000 a year. In fact, they are, in general, going to earn much less than this. If I was to say that artists can make up to $1 million a year, it wouldn’t be representative of artists in general, who are more likely to be starving artists than Andy Warhols.
[quote]At downtown’s dark and dingy Lusty Lady, for instance, where customers pay 25 cents for 20 seconds of peeping glory, gals earn an hourly wage of anywhere from $14 to $20. As most work about 16 hours per week, this calculates out to an annual salary of $11,000 to $17,000. North on First Avenue, inside the slightly more upscale D
