Friday, April 9, 2010

I wanna be a stripper...

Well, not really. I don't think I could ever have the balls to actually take my clothes off for a bunch of people despite the appealing nature of the job. Depending on where a dancer works, she'll either make bank or barely make by. I think it would be a fun job, but certainly not something I could confide to my parents about. As graduation soon approaches, I need to start thinking about my future seriously.

I can't get a real job for the first few months after graduation, because I have so many obligations until August. (ie. babysitting my g'parents for 3 weeks, bro's graduation, other bro's graduation across the country, and g'parents 60th anniversary party) I can't very well start on a career path only to request so many days off within the first three months. Oye. This will be a good time to think about my future and start getting everything in order. Meanwhile, I'll have a somewhat demeaning job at a candy store, which will be a great source of income while living at home, but not so great when all the old high school people show up and start the small town gossip about what I'm doing after college.

Anyway, here are the options I have come up with thus far:

(1) While working at the candy shop, invest in pole dancing lessons to the point of expert level. After the summer, move up to Monterey (where there is no pole dancing classes available) and start my own studio. Of course there is a lot more to think about, like funding and actually having the body to pull this career choice off.

(2) Work in the candy shop while applying to graduate school, then pursuing my doctorate in anthropology studying the sex industry. Using the candy shop money to take pole dancing lessons and work my way through graduate school teaching pole dancing wherever I end up for school. (Hopefully in Iowa because I like their graduate program and I would finally be able to spend time with my 3 sisters, get to know them, and have a place to live)

(3) Work at the candy shop until I can get a job on a cruise ship and be shipped off somewhere.

(4) Apply for a job in linguistics on the Navy Base where my parents work. (Knowing my parents are pretty influential and have some pull around there, my last name will most likely get me one of the openings) They would pay for graduate study (probably not in strippers though) and I would be shipped around the US to different base locations. Kinda unappealing in that sense.

(5) Join the Coast Guard.

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