Reuters Germany did a short video report about a woman who quit her day job as a PR person to become a cheerleader. I don't understand German, so it isn't clear to me whether cheering on the side of the street is her actual profession, or if she's just doing that for fun or for the Reuters show.
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March 31, 2010
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as far as I get it, she didn't quit, since she's just doing it in the morning. the report doesn't clearly say how she makes her money. she charges not for cheerleading
Posted by: Tokyofotosushi.wordpress.com | March 31, 2010 at 10:00 AM
Hi, it's not clear if she really quit her job. But she's doing the chearleeder-thing every morning to motivate the rushhour-workers. Once a man came to her, who just was planning to quit his job until he saw her dancing, so he redecided. The performance did she learn from internet-video. And she is doing it even in wintertime.
Posted by: Anja Anja | March 31, 2010 at 10:22 AM
The report does state, however, that she "was" one of the many workers going to work every morning, "until one day she had enough of the stress as a PR agent and the many troubled faces around her". She wanted to cheer them up, hence the dancing.
Posted by: Matthias Armbruster | April 01, 2010 at 02:49 AM
This reminds me a LOT of this here - maybe she played the game too and decided to be a female cheerleader.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Osu!_Tatakae!_Ouendan
I just wonder what she's living from, as the report kinda stated that she would do this every day - no word of any other job.
Posted by: Austinat | April 03, 2010 at 05:37 PM