Got laid off from the DJ job, now working for a bordello. So how are you?

[Amerigo Vespucci]

Can't give you all the details because I am saving them for my book.

Got laid off from the DJ job by the bar's new manager because he said he had to "cut back."

Am now handling social media (and photo shoots) for one of the ladies working in one of Nevada's fine legal brothels.

I now realize that before i moved here I was living a truly sheltered existence.

OK, your turn, what's new?

[rug]

1. How are the benefits?

[Amerigo Vespucci]

3. Limited to a dream photography job.

Other than that, this place is well out of my price range, and nothing's for free.

[MiddleFingerMom]

2. For a while, MiddleFingerMomTom was the night manager of a "massage parlor" near...

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... the University of Michigan. He said it was hilarious when foreign students (and he said it
was ALWAYS foreign students) would be highly upset because they couldn't get an actual
professional massage.
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Me? I'm like Father Mulcahy from M.A.S.H. -- I worked my way through divinity school as
a B-girl.
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[hunter]

4. During World War II, both her parents working long hours in the shipyards...

....living downstairs from a bordello in a big Navy port, my mom's daycare providers were prostitutes.

Sure, the nice ladies had plenty of sailor "friends," but everyone was exceptionally kind and decent to my little kid mom in every way.

My own encounters with the sex trade haven't always been so wholesome (saving stories about them for my book maybe?) but I always had the sense to run away if things got rotten.

Take care of yourself, okay?

[Blue_Tires]

5. Can I mooch off your employee discount?

[Amerigo Vespucci]

16. Let's put it this way...

...if you had the employee discount, you'd STILL better set aside a month's rent / mortgage payment. I was shocked. People who watch episodes of "Cops" and think they know the going rate in Nevada's legal brothels have been watching too many episodes of "Cops."

[Amerigo Vespucci]

12. Yep...Pahrump.

Glad to see that "Have A Nice Day" thing is still working out for you.

[dimbear]

7. High five, bro!

Damn. My cousin used to drive cab out to those places, always his best tips.

[In_The_Wind]

8. Quit my job managing a bordello, best decision of my life.

I'm working on the book now.

[Amerigo Vespucci]

13. It takes about ONE WEEK and you have ALL the material you need for a book

This week I'll be starting my THIRD week. Guess I'd better get busy, I have a lot of books to write.

[Riftaxe]

9. Well....

you did get laid and bordello in the same message header, perhaps your talent lies more in the direction of being an editor?

[Amerigo Vespucci]

14. I've been told from time to time that people enjoy my thread titles.

[Victor_c3]

10. I don't visit this section that often

but I'm hanging in there.

Like you, I'm saving much of what goes on in my life for my book. However, the real action part of my book is over and has been over for about 9 years. The rest of it has been about me trying to move on and find my place.

I have a startling limited grasp on Ernest Hemingway, but I feel that I would be a character right out of one of his books. I just bumble around trying to find a place to fit in and survive after returning from war.

Much like a child movie star, I feel as if I peaked early on in life and have been struggling hard to get back what I had in my early 20s. It's a shame. I'm only 33 years old and I feel as if my life is over although I know that I have a lot left in me. I look at myself now and see a broken shadow of what I was.

I have a wife and two young kids and they need me to be stable and work my "jobbie-job" to pay the bills. I can't be the person I want to be right now and I can't just leave to do something selfish for myself. Too many people that are important to me count on me right now.

To drop it all and to get back to a real adventure like I had in my 20s would be something. I'd drop it all in a heartbeat to "get back into the fight" - even if the fight was more figurative than actual. I'd love to live in a shit hole somewhere and spend my time and energy helping the severely disadvantaged or to do something creative and artistic.

I really have nothing to be down on myself about. Not that I'm overly full of myself, but I'm in great shape for a guy my age, I'm good looking, and I'm smart and well versed on a variety of topics. I have a dream job and I make a very comfortable living. I had an attractive wife and two absolutely smart and beautiful children. Life just feels like it is missing something and I feel like I'm just a fraud driving back and forth to work, working a jobbie-job, and raising a family like a chump.

I'll figure something out. I have to. I have way too much creativity, energy, and life ahead of me. On a more spiritual level, I need to find something more fulfilling. I've had a taste of what the exhilaration of life can feel like and I want it back.

[Aristus]

11. For my own book: I once spent the night in a ladies dormitory at Rutgers University.

Memorable night, in every way.

I love Jersey girls to this day...

[Amerigo Vespucci]

15. I was born and raised on the East Coast...

...moved to California when I was 16.

The girls I grew up with had no shortage of attitude. It was kind of like the scene in "Goodfellas" where Ray Liotta stood up Lorraine Bracco and he is feebly trying to explain himself and she says "You're gonna pay...oh, are you honna PAY." I loved them all. Pahrump isn't known for its beautiful people. In Santa Clara you had "a French buh-KEENY on a wild island doll by a palm tree in the sand." On the East Coast, you had that attitude. In Pahrump you have...well, you really have to be here to be able to understand it, and I've been here 7 months, and I'm not there yet.