View Full Version : Why did you decide to become a dancer?
FoxxeeBrown
01-13-2004, 03:32 PM
Wow, ladies! All of your stories on this subject have been very interesting, and I can relate to a lot of them.
Here's mine:
I was working full time, going to school full time, and spending more than all of my time being completely broke!! I've always been a bit of an exhibitionist, and when I found out about the kinds of shoes that strippers wore :wide-eyed: , I was intrigued. I bought a pair of six-inch stillettos and wore them to the (underage) night clubs all the time. When I finally gathered up the courage to audition, I already knew how to dance in the shoes ;)
I do regret falling into bad habits, spending and otherwise during my first two years of dancing. Other than that, I'm glad I fell into this profession!
AngelBaby
01-13-2004, 05:34 PM
I haven't started yet - however, because of your questions and everyone's answers, I am certainly a lot less afraid to try! Thank you!!!!! ;)
I'm with you AngelBaby.. I haven't started dancing yet either. I have wanted to though since I was like 16. I was the REAL shy one (I still am kinda) I am trying to get myself ready to do it though. It is kinda a promise I made to myself to do it at least once by the time I am 30. I tried on my first pair of shoes today and fell in love with them (literally FELL j/k) anyway my point is the more I read this forum thingy the better I feel about doing it. :bouncey: Thank you all!!
Jess
VenusGoddess
01-13-2004, 07:27 PM
Hmmm...just started dancing recently. I am 29, but look like I am about 23. I started, not because I need the money, but because I love dancing. I love getting up on stage and being sensual and sexual and being able to make money doing that. It's great to be able to make money doing something that you love. The cash money is great, too, but I love the dancing. I'll do this for as long as I feel like doing this. =)
emilybelle
01-14-2004, 10:57 AM
i started when i was 21 in college. i always had been the one girl my guy friends would take with them to the clubs, and i really wanted to try it. working at rio bravo wasn't cutting it anymore. so i had some of my guy friends tell me what they like to see in a dancer, and i went down to audition. then, when my school found out...all hell broke loose, and i quit.
now, i am 27 and dancing again. i am divorced with a little boy....and this is the only way i can support him the way i think it what he deserves (my exhusband cant even pay child care on time). i am in grad school now, and i often wonder what it would be like to finally quit dancing and get that "real" job my friends want me to have. it is hard for them to understand that i love to entertain people. anyway, my only regret is that i wish my school had kept their noses out of my business...then again, that is what i get for going to a place that makes you go to church to graduate. lol.
I started because my mother lost her job, and my dad is too bi- polar to hold one down for long. I didn't want to end up out on the street as I was still a baby and had never really paid for anything significant. I still live at home, niether know I dance, I pay for food and pay some bills. My dad works part time ( see how far he's gone with his masters degree!) and my mother left Texas for New Mexico last week. She did not leave my dad. She is just staying with her mother because her father just died and my grandmother is 89 yrs. old. I have to dance, or I'll have to quite school so I can work all the time. At least I like what I do.
Ferrari
01-14-2004, 12:37 PM
I needed the money. My husband (boyfriend then) and I had a one-year-old to support. He was working as much as he could possibly handle, and we never got to see him. (We were both barely 19 at the time.) Our families weren't the most supportive, so there wasn't much help from them. I did the only thing that I felt I knew how to do then...I danced. Now dancing is just part of who I am. I enjoy it, most of the time. It has provided a nice life for us. I paid my husband's way through college, too, so he has an excellent job and can support us when I am no longer able to dance.
susan
01-16-2004, 09:38 AM
I'm prolly the only one here who was the stereotype "girls gone wild" type. I was a soph in college, didn't need the money, went to a strip club with my b/f on an amateur night, and got dared to get up on stage. I DIDN'T that night, but the next week and a few tequila shooters later, I was up there with the best of them! This club was pretty by-the-book on the amateur night (other clubs I've known let you start making tips on the very first night). This one made offers to a couple of us (me included) and put me on a couple of shifts, working like three nights a week, which was plenty.
scarlett_vancouver
01-16-2004, 09:56 AM
Well, I was travelling in Europe with my bf and we ended up in London with no money- we had to sleep in Hyde park! Then we got robbed and had all our stuff stolen, including passports and plane tickets home! So, I decided fuck it, remembered seeing and ad for 'The Windmill' in TNT magazine, and auditioned (knowing nothing, really, but it was basically just a 'get naked and let us have a look at you' audition'). Was hired, worked my first shift and made about 40 pounds. Ugh. I CRIED so much that night, but my bf gave me a pep talk and said 'just try one more night, if you really hate it we'll figure something else out'. So i did, and made 500 pounds the next night. The rest is history :p
I was 21 and in college. Because I had moved out into my boyfriends house, my parents cut all ties (financially ofcourse) and said I was on my own. So I said, Hooters was not cuttin it and neither were any of my other jobs (doctos office at 8.50 an hour) so I started waitressing at a nude club. I was smart enough to get my foot in the door that way. ;) I didnt have to audition because they all new I had never danced but I was building a few customers who were dying to see my nude.
One day in August I just got the guts to do it... and here I am a year and a half later.
Regrets? Yes....that I didnt save all the money I earned, but now I dont live with my (ex) anymore, although we are best friends. He drives me to and from work occasionally, and I live on my own. :) I need to start saving more because nowI have my own rent and bills... :) (And I am still in college)
i was 18 and I was curious. and i kinda felt like i would need those skills someday. i was right. I didnt need the money then as i had more then i could spend at the time. but i knew that wouldnt last. i didnt dance long that time as pressure from my well meaning friends and co-workers esclated. but 2 years later i broke up with my boyfriend and was at the grand opening of a new club in town. very upscale. i eased into it enough, starting in bikini, then latex, then nude no touch, now nude close danceing. It is a very good profession to travel with. you can get hired quickly with no lenthy interview process, no training, and instacash. now the money is good with there being absolutly NO jobs at all near my home and if i am going to drive and hour and a half to work i better be making more then $25 night (thats my avrage of my last waitressing job). I also dance because i love it. i love all types of dance and have been trained in everything from ballet, to swing, to middle eastern. i have a gothic bar with a dancefloor i love to go to when i am in town and just dance till they kick me out. I am also an exabitinist and like people looking at me daceing provocitvly naked. i dont get off on it, i just enjoy it.
Miss Chevious
01-18-2004, 02:25 PM
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NinaDaisy
01-19-2004, 11:20 PM
Was just to pay rent that month... been six years now.[/color]
Hee hee hee...sounds familiar! ;) Although 4.5 yrs for me.
NinaDaisy
01-19-2004, 11:26 PM
All the comments about how little most of us made at our previous jobs reminds me of a funny story...
A few years ago when I was dancing in DC, I was towards the end of the shift and had finished the night with $110. I was passing a stage where one of my co-workers was bouncing around the stage, dancing with a big, super-perky smile. Since it was a stage dancing only club and I knew none of the 10 girls working topped $200 that night, I asked her "why are you so happy right now?". Her response: "Because I'm not working at Bob Evans anymore! And even this is better than my best shift there!"
So true...
Farrah_Holiday
01-19-2004, 11:49 PM
Was just to pay rent that month... been six years now.[/color]
Hee hee hee...sounds familiar! ;) Although 4.5 yrs for me.
Ditto..it was strictly for the moolah ! :dazzled:
Rents been paid and I'm still dancing..lol
HotBiDancerInPhily
01-20-2004, 10:14 AM
i was 18. I had 10000 in debt already and i wanted to have sex with a stripper who said if i auditiooned she would .lol it worked.I also wanted to make enuf money to buy a house.and live good for awhile why i am young.
oceanblue
01-23-2004, 12:00 AM
I started dancing when i was 18 and had just gotten fired from a factory job. I started out waitressing and somehow it just seemed to escalate to dancing with all the pressure from the djs and managers. I danced for about 5 months and quit, got a real job then went back to dancing when i turned 20. I am 21 and still dancing to this day. I love it and it is very addicting. I love the attention and i get better at what i do every time. ;D
SexyGemini
01-25-2004, 01:09 PM
I started dancing because I thought it would help my self esteem as well as provide me with a way of making a decent living. So far I've made more each night dancing then I have at my vanilla job that required me to have a degree...I don't regret anything yet. I am just taking things slow,learning all I can from the other dancers, and being wise with my money.