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Subject: Re: I'm really starting to like this stuff
Date: Thu, 17 Apr 2025 10:25:44 -0400
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On 4/17/2025 10:21 AM, Dave Smith wrote:

> 
> There was a girl in one of my university classes who worked evenings as 
> a stripper.  I know there are people who consider jobs like that to be 
> exploitation and demeaning to women but damn she made good money. This 
> was in the early 70s. I had had a summer job in an alloy smelting plant 
> where the heat, the noise and the dust was tough to deal with, plus the 
> extreme physical exertion of the actual work.  I was making $4.25 an 
> hour, which was pretty good money at the time.   She was working about 4 
> hours a night doing 3-4 sets and getting  $350 a week. She was making 
> more than twice as much per week, for times as much per hour, than I 
> was.  And she was the one being exploited?

Dave, you missed an opportunity.  You should have become a stripper and 
made that kind of money.