# Mommy, Mommy! Guess what I learned at career day! Big boobies can make you big money! **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [January 14, 2005, 5:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mommy-mommy-guess-what-i-learned-at-career-day-big-boobies-can-make-you-big-money/284742 "2005-01-14T17:39:38Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Mister\_Rik](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mister_rik/32/491_2.png) [@Mister\_Rik](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mister_Rik)\ **Post date:** [January 16, 2005, 3:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mommy-mommy-guess-what-i-learned-at-career-day-big-boobies-can-make-you-big-money/284742/41 "2005-01-16T03:29:50Z")
Hey, I specifically said that I could have chosen to ignore my parents. My own fault that I didn’t. _My own failure to try_ is what makes me sick. I lacked both the initiative and the spine to do so, because _I was convinced that my goal was unrealistic_. Call it blame if you want to, but there’s no denying that parental influence, good or bad, is a huge factor in determining the course of everybody’s life. My point was that “realistic” should’t be a factor in choosing a career goal. I’m convinced that there are millions of frustrated, unhappy artists (of whatever variety) in this world whose parents believed that the arts were no good for anything but a hobby. I believe that dreams should be encouraged, not shot down. The problem is that most parents want to be able to brag about their grown children. They would be embarrassed if they had to tell people, “Well, you know, we wanted Johnny to go to college, and get a good job, but all he does is sit at home banging away on that typewriter.” ---
**Author:** ![astro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/9dc877/32.png) [@astro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astro)\ **Post date:** [January 16, 2005, 3:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mommy-mommy-guess-what-i-learned-at-career-day-big-boobies-can-make-you-big-money/284742/42 "2005-01-16T03:46:11Z")
> [@Phase42](#): > > My point was that “realistic” should’t be a factor in choosing a career goal. I’m convinced that there are millions of frustrated, unhappy artists (of whatever variety) in this world whose parents believed that the arts were no good for anything but a hobby. I believe that dreams should be encouraged, not shot down. The problem is that most parents want to be able to brag about their grown children. They would be embarrassed if they had to tell people, “Well, you know, we wanted Johnny to go to college, and get a good job, but all he does is sit at home banging away on that typewriter.” Point taken. ---
**Author:** ![Rhubarb](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/59ef9b/32.png) [@Rhubarb](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rhubarb)\ **Post date:** [January 16, 2005, 6:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mommy-mommy-guess-what-i-learned-at-career-day-big-boobies-can-make-you-big-money/284742/43 "2005-01-16T06:12:17Z")
> [@](#): > > _Originally posted by_\*\* Evil Captor;\*\* > If you have no talent whatsoever but you can talk people into things, you head into management or sales. Funniest thing I’ve read all day. ---
**Author:** ![Lamia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/8e7dd6/32.png) [@Lamia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lamia)\ **Post date:** [January 16, 2005, 6:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mommy-mommy-guess-what-i-learned-at-career-day-big-boobies-can-make-you-big-money/284742/44 "2005-01-16T06:27:33Z")
> [@Phase42](#): > > My point was that “realistic” should’t be a factor in choosing a career goal. I’m convinced that there are millions of frustrated, unhappy artists (of whatever variety) in this world whose parents believed that the arts were no good for anything but a hobby. I believe that dreams should be encouraged, not shot down. That’s nice and all, but I don’t think it has anything to do with leading girls to believe that they can easily make as much as a brain surgeon by just shaking their boobies. I mean, it’s one thing to support a young woman in her dream of becoming the world’s greatest and most highly-paid exotic dancer, or even just an ordinary good stripper. It’s another to lie to kids about how in the adult entertainment industry vast riches await even the most uneducated and unskilled of women, provided they’ve got large breasts. In the article it does sound like the kids encouraged the speaker to go into a longer tangent about stripping than he probably intended, but I don’t see why he wanted to bring it up in the first place. As an elderly male management consultant, I doubt he’s got much knowledge of the field as anything other than a patron. ---
**Author:** ![RevCo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/9fc348/32.png) [@RevCo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RevCo)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2005, 2:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mommy-mommy-guess-what-i-learned-at-career-day-big-boobies-can-make-you-big-money/284742/45 "2005-01-17T02:23:14Z")
> [@Snooooopy](#): > > I’m trying to imagine what kind of patron is going to find this sexy. Some guys, obviously, would feel too bad for her injuries to get turned on, and I would imagine that even the less-sympathetic customers would just be irritated or bored watching a stripper who can hardly move and turn their attention to one of the other strippers. > > Yes, I know that most ANYTHING can be sexy to someone. But how many people are going to want to watch this? She was an attractive girl - but not very bright. Who would find this attractive? Not a hard fact, but in my experience 99.99% of strippers strip in sleazy shitholes where a cute face or big boobs is enough - not the Hollywood fancy, handsome guys going bonkers, money flying, pole-dancing, 5-star babes with gimongous fake tits, etc. I know because I have done extensive research in this area, in the interest of science, of course. Telling girls they can make 250K dancing is like telling children they can make 250k working with computers - sure, it COULD be done, but good luck baby, because there is a hell of a lot of competition at that level - to make that kind of money stripping you have to be born with! ---
**Author:** ![Evil\_Captor](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/f17d59/32.png) [@Evil\_Captor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Evil_Captor)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2005, 5:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mommy-mommy-guess-what-i-learned-at-career-day-big-boobies-can-make-you-big-money/284742/46 "2005-01-22T17:01:32Z")
> [@Rhubarb](#): > > Funniest thing I’ve read all day. Thankyew thankyew, I’m here all week. Try the veal. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mommy-mommy-guess-what-i-learned-at-career-day-big-boobies-can-make-you-big-money/284742.md?page=2)