[shakes]

Today has been very lousy. I decided to resort to applying for retail jobs because I really do not know what else to do...and of course no one is hiring. I went to at least 10 different places and came up emptyhanded. I am out of ideas and through trying. There is no point to any of this crap anymore.
My boyfriend is really against this idea...and I am not pleased with it either... but I think I am going to start "applying" to local strip clubs. I need to keep on paying my bills and my funds are running out. I know that it is a lousy alternative but I do not know what else to do.
I officially feel like my four years of school are completely wortheless.

jessica

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[gloria]

You know? My first job out of college was cashiering at Toys R Us. I cried everyday asking myself: Is this what I went to college for?
I couldn't fing a job!!! I hated that time ...
Don't give up ... It's been now 15 years since I graduated from College (boy Am I old!) and it's been great ....... I work on my field and am happy, but it takes time, just hung in there.

gab

[shakes]

Gloria,
It is good to know that I am not alone in this right now. I worked so hard to get good grades and to finish college on time..I took seven classes my last semester...and now this? I can honestly say this sucks!
However, it is like Dex told me before..I have to look at my accomplishments instead of my failures for the time being. I am trying.

Jessica

<font color=blue> You are in this snowglobe. It is encovered in glass and secure. But one day someone comes and shakes the globe and the pieces go flying everywhere. Now they will eventually settle but they won't be the way they were before and they can never be that way again. </font color=blue>

[pebblypoo]

shakes, you think you are depressed and down on yourself now? Just wait til you start parading around naked or nearly naked for a bunch of drunken losers (IMHO any "man," no matter what he does for a living or how much money he may have, if in a strip club, is a loser.)

My oldest sister was a bartender in a strip club, you know, those supposed "high class" ones. I wouldn't speak to her for years. My other sister said that she spoke to her the day after her first time there and she was telling her how vile and disgusting it was and that she never wanted to go back, that all the men there acted like drunken idiots. I believe my oldest sister later denied saying this to my other sister, but that's beside the point. Anyway, she ended up working there for a few years. She told me how some of the waitresses were working their way through college. Please. Lovely commentary on our society. The owner gave her quite a bit of responsibility, including scheduling and opening his new place a couple hours away. She invested a lot of money in his clubs because he told her she'd get a good return on her investment. She eventually asked for her money back and quit the job. Some time after that we began speaking again. I never got a real answer as to why she left. My hunch is that she could no longer delude herself into thinking that this was no big deal and saw it for what it really is: disgusting and sad. I for one, don't buy into this whole ideology that porn and strip clubs are perfectly fine, and even encouraged in our society (not to mention others.) When did porn become mainstream? Sex and money are never a good combination.

Well, you really hit a nerve with me, didn't you?

<font color=purple> The greatness of a nation and its moral progress can be judged by the way its animals are treated--Gandhi

Sometimes I lie awake at night in bed and I ask, "Is it all worth it?" And then a voice says, "Who are you talking to?" And another voice says, "You mean, ' To whom are you talking?'" And I say, "No wonder I lie awake at night."--Charlie Brown </font color=purple>

[PlanningtoLive]

Shakes, at one point in time I did "lingerie shows" in bars - mostly biker bars.

Let me tell you there is no faster way in the world to feel like a piece of meat (sorry for the expression, but it fits) and to start to hate men.

You and your boyfriend may have problems if you do this because after a few hours of being on display, you won't want him anywhere near you.

I found out because I got a very bad attitude towards men and ended up quitting. Just my 2 cents.


<font color=red>Don't you just hate it when life doesn't follow the manuals? - Author Unknown</font color=red>

[shakes]

Thanks for the input. The ironic thing is I was a women's studies minor in college and was always the one protesting for more rights. I know that it is not a glamourous job by any means and VERY degrading. However I just have felt so down lately that I figured if men want to pay money to see a woman naked then I want to suck them dry!! I know that sounds horrible but perhaps it was just my way of justifiying it to myself.
It just sucks when a grocery store will not even hire me by now. It is just so frustrating.

What about bartending? I could maybe take the class and get a job somewhere in the area where my boyfriend could come when I work?

Jessica

<font color=blue> You are in this snowglobe. It is encovered in glass and secure. But one day someone comes and shakes the globe and the pieces go flying everywhere. Now they will eventually settle but they won't be the way they were before and they can never be that way again. </font color=blue>