Agents/Wall Streeters Reveal Their REAL Estate
A: Ahhh, nothing like a story like this to start your morning. What do you do when wall street is dismantled and real estate volume in Manhattan drops like a stone? You start pole dancing of course!
According to the NY Posts, "AXED GALS TAKE POLE POSITIONS":
Scores of professional New York women stripped of their six-figure jobs are now working as "gentlemen's club entertainers" at upscale Manhattan jiggle joints. Former Wall Streeters, fashion executives and real-estate agents are pole dancing and strip ping for as much as $1,500 a night -- but also because they like the flexible hours.I absolutely love the line, "...Now that I make better money as a stripper than as a real-estate agent, I'm going to buy my own apartment". Classic. If only there was a market for Jewish, balding, male bloggers with a gut to do this line of work, I would be the first to sign up!! What, no love?Randi Newton, 28, who lives in Midtown, was a financial analyst at Morgan Stanley before the crash but was fired.
"A few nights after I got laid off, I went with friends to a strip club to get drunk and forget my unemployment troubles," Newton said. "The manager offered me a job as a dancer. I thought it was different. And fun."
Katie Haverton, 27, is one of them (real estate agents). She worked as a broker for a large real-estate company for three years until January, when she says she hadn't made a sale in six months and had $2 left in her bank account. She now performs at Flash Dancers in Midtown.
"With real estate, you can work 10 hours a day showing people apartments and you never know when the next sale will be," said Haverton, who lives on the Upper East Side. "But with dancing, the money is instant. Now that I make better money as a stripper than as a real-estate agent, I'm going to buy my own apartment."
It seems Randi Newton was an actress, professionally trained poker player, and former Morgan Stanley financial analyst before dancing (does this not sound perfect to anybody else?); what, she didn't know what a collateralized debt obligation was? All I know is, I plan to go see her special purpose vehicle over at Ricks Cabaret one of these nights real soon.
Comments (9)
Nice post, Noah. Learn to love your hand.
Posted by Your wife | March 31, 2009 8:14 AM
hahhahahhahahahha. Now thats funny. Lucky for me, I'm allowed to go to strip clubs! Thank you Europe for being much less prude than us Americans!
Posted by Noah | March 31, 2009 8:19 AM
now if we can only get nyc to allow amsterdam-like "cafes". tax the weed and we have no deficit!
Posted by cfranch | March 31, 2009 8:22 AM
Hilarious! I love comment #1.
Nice to see a touch of humor here Noah!
Posted by paul.b | March 31, 2009 8:43 AM
Brings a whole new meaning to pay for performance careers.
Posted by Anon | March 31, 2009 9:31 AM
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/jamie-malanowski/a-naked-lie-from-the-new_b_180458.html
Posted by skeptic | March 31, 2009 9:35 AM
the best line in the huffington post comment section:
"I can't believe a woman with the ability to become a successful stripper would so degrade herself as to become a financial analyst."
Posted by Noah | March 31, 2009 9:52 AM
Here's what drives our great economy: the desire to make money no matter what the human or emotional cost. It's great that she found a job but consider what she would have done if MS asked her to "change" her financial analysis of Chase Bank to fit the company policy. Do you imagine she'd object in lieu of cash? Can you say financial meltdown?
Posted by Ed | March 31, 2009 10:49 AM
What is the difference? They were whores for the rich before and they are whores for the rich now.
Posted by Buyer | March 31, 2009 5:36 PM