Stripping Is Career Choice

Students Told Stripping Is Career Choice
By BILEN MESFIN, Associated Press Writer

SAN FRANCISCO - 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.