Path: ...!weretis.net!feeder9.news.weretis.net!news.quux.org!eternal-september.org!feeder3.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Ed P Newsgroups: rec.food.cooking Subject: Re: I'm really starting to like this stuff Date: Thu, 17 Apr 2025 10:25:44 -0400 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 16 Message-ID: References: <25f4ce0df00f34ba0ff392f4feee9c6f@www.novabbs.com> <3quLP.2615039$TBhc.2226724@fx16.iad> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Injection-Date: Thu, 17 Apr 2025 16:25:45 +0200 (CEST) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="ed5beb0ac302cb7e7dd1d22f9e38573b"; logging-data="869433"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX18AlsMrBj+zka+ijN6UyxLr4VVsDxCvgFU=" User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird Cancel-Lock: sha1:O4vhpry29SobhkfbnlYGqRnTrU8= Content-Language: en-US In-Reply-To: Bytes: 2392 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.