Speaker tells Palo Alto students that stripping can be lucrative

[Kadie]

Speaker tells Palo Alto students that stripping can be lucrative
BILEN MESFIN, Associated Press Writer

Thursday, January 13, 2005


(01-13) 16:55 PST SAN FRANCISCO (AP) --

School officials in Palo Alto are reconsidering their use of a popular speaker for an annual career day after he advised middle school students that they could earn a good living as strip dancers.

William Fried told eighth-graders at Jane Lathrop Stanford Middle School that stripping and exotic dancing could be lucrative career moves for girls, offering as much as $250,000 or more per year, depending on their bust size.

"It's sick, but it's true," Fried, president of Foster City's Precision Selling, a management consulting firm, told The Associated Press. "The truth of the matter is you can earn a tremendous amount of money as an exotic dancer, if that's your desire."

The school has asked Fried to give his 55-minute presentation, "The Secret of a Happy Life," for the past three years.

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[bemildred]

1. This guy must have a death wish or something. nt

[NV Whino]

2. I wonder if it's too late for a career change

I think these uptight parents (and kids) should relax and listen to his real message. As in, find what you really like to do and follow the path. We would have a happier world if people forgot the pressures of doing (or trying to do) what others expect them to do, and do something they like.

I personally took the road less traveled (that of an artist) and haven't regretted it an instant.

[Starlight]

3. What about pimping & dealing drugs?

You can make a lot of money doing that, too. :eyes:

[sakabatou]

4. My old middle school

Dang. Missed his speech. I wanna see the shock the on peoples faces when he said that the first time.

[Xithras]

5. This article kind of twists what happened.

The guy gave out a LONG list of lucrative careers broken into different areas (traditional, nontraditional, etc), and buried in the middle was exotic dancing. It wasn't promoted or highlighted, but it was in the middle of this long list.

A couple of the boys noticed it and challenged him on it, asking if stripping was really a lucrative career, and he told them the truth...that people with the right physical attributes can make a lot of money at it.

Personally, I don't see what's so controversial about that. This is the SF Bay Area after all, so I'd hope that they'd be past trying to censor legitimate information simply because it offends someones "morals".