If so, share what you love about your job :)
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If so, share what you love about your job :)
It really takes having a normal vanilla job to appreciate being a dancer. It's much more fun, profitable and flexible than any other job.
+1. I love dancing for all those reasons and wish I had more time to spend in the club! I can only really make it in once a week now working full-time on my career path. That job is interesting and still allows me to spend on luxuries and put savings away, but it's nowhere near as exciting or flexible as stripping. Obviously it's nowhere near as lucrative either! I also miss always moving around in the club (sitting around for 8 hours is surprisingly tiring lol) and interacting with so many people (customers, fellow dancers, staff, etc.).
what everyone else has said. i was working 7 days a week for 400 bucks before dancing. i had gone to school and received 2 certificates and was unable to find work in that field either. i cant even begin to describe how much it has helped me, i never have to ask to borrow money or really even worry about it. because of dancing i now have built a great comfortable life for me and my son. it also fills an inner need that i have. its' fun, its great exercise, its challening, its flexible, its social, its extremely profitable! i love it and if i had my choice i'd never quit :)
I love dancing! I've had a variety of jobs prior to stripping, and stripping by far pays the most hourly. It's such a huge return on so little investment. I love that I can not go to work if I don't feel like it, I love that I get to dress up and have fun and be a goofball, I love dancing for cute guys, I love being showered with dollar bills, I love that I'm my own boss. I started dancing to pay for school, but I kind of wish I could just keep dancing after I graduate.
It's a love/hate thing. At times it can be very stressful and dealing with annoying strippers and creepo guys can make a person jaded.
However, as an undergrad college student planning on dancing until I get my law degree, I feel so fortunate to be able to have such a job, because it has so many benefits: it pays extremely well, the hours are very flexible, and it's even been a gateway to networking (example: my agent introduced me to his lawyer who owns a successful law firm and he has since offered me an internship - how cool is that!). The flexibility is key because I go to school full time. Also, I want to be able to do lots of traveling before I get my law degree and get bound by a standard 9 to 5, and dancing lets that be possible as well. I plan to take vacations as often as I can during school breaks. I love that I have a nice apartment and nice things. I love that I can live by myself completely independently without struggling, pay for school, enjoy time off whenever I want it, not be broke, and don't have to work 50 hours a week to afford it all lol.
So while I hate certain aspects of it, at the end of the day I can't complain because it's awesome.
I love the fact I work 20 hours a week for a fulltime wage. .... I love that I can earn money with tools, the same as everyone else, however I was born with mine :p
the freedom
I love that everyone is so happy to see me:-)
i love that i get to wear very little clothing and act like a huge flirty lush, and then get rewarded for it (as opposed to being reprimanded or scorned). In my other jobs/ real life, I kind of have to be a prudish square, which is ok- but i really appreciate working in a venue where i get to let loose and tend to my narcissism/ repressed sense of vanity.
i also love setting my own schedule, working 1-2 shifts per month if i feel like it.
Fast money!
i like getting worshipped when i'm just walking around naked onstage.
I like playing around as a fantasy figure.
I like that the customer is NOT "always right."
I love stripping, and I can't wait to go back to dancing in two more weeks.
I LOVED every second of it!!!
^ You not dancing anymore?
I had social anxiety and stripping was the best therapy for that. You have no choice but to get over it and be social. I still like to go into hermit mode now and then, but it's nowhere as bad as it used to be. There was a point where I was having trouble making myself shop for groceries. Yikes, not a fun way to live.
Also it boosts my self confidence. Which in turn makes my relationship better.
On the downside I've just come to terms with the fact that I need a few months away now and then. I just save and plan for it. It's not worth staying when going to the club starts to make you super cranky. I also make better money when I'm happy to be there.
I love the way stripping makes me love my body.
I love waking up in the morning after a night of work and laughing to myself about all of the different characters I embodied and interacted with the night before... and then counting my money a second time.
I love the fact that I'm a total certified day walker and 75% of the people in my life would NEVER guess that I'm a stripper. I get off on the secret. :P
I love that I get a full week's worth of cardio without ever putting on sneakers.
I love how stripping has taught me to be smart with my money and enabled me to pursue less lucrative passions in my spare time that make me happy. :)
I love that I can have a job ANYWHERE I go -- it's truly one of the few professions where freedom and security go hand in hand.
I love the fact that stripping forced me to be introspective and really LEARN about myself, my boundaries, my needs and my desires when I was still very young and turned me into the self-assured, confident woman I am today.
I love what stripping has taught me about people. No need to explain further, you all get it.
I love YOU for making this thread! This was an AWESOME gratitude exercise.
Strip club receipt fell out of your pocket somewhere and she knows that you went.
I love it.. It helps me practice my people skills, I get to get really dressed up for work and have fun with my makeup, and it's a really flexible and well-paying job :) I actually have a B.S. but I'm choosing to dance instead of using my degree because it's so fun! Might as well take advantage of youth heh :)
I've got a BA and an MA lol. I'm 30 is that still 'Youth' maybe not BUT, I am taking advantage of the fact that I still can make money using myself and nothing else. I can use my qualifications later on in life , I can't strip forever (but at the moment, I sure as hell wish I could!
i'd say 30 is still young! the most beautiful girl i know is 35, i think women in their 30s are hot! i find their comfortable in their own skin, more confident, more sexual, more interesting..idk just my opinion( not bashing on younger ones tho!). plus i've seen your pics, you are cute as a button!
I like you!haha.Thank you :) :) I do have my 'Agh I'm old!' days still but I try to switch it off at work.
I know what you mean though. Taking the recession i/e clubs being less busy generally, into account-I still get as much attention as I ever did.. a lot of men feel comfier with 30s dancers if they're not young themselves, a lot of young guys don't realise I'm older.
And as you say, not knocking the younger girls at all!I pair up with a lot of them at work , and am good friends with many girls 8 years or more younger than I am. I am still a happy stripper at 30... I want to carry on for as long as I'm happy :)
I love my job still :)
I love dancing and have been counting down the months (now days) until my maternity leave is over! In 2 nights I make the equivalent (or more) of what I made at my full time vanilla job. That kind of financial independence is great. Plus, I get to stay home with the kids now!
This is a really good thread to read when your hating on dancing (like I am tonight after a crappy shift) aright, im jumpin in!
-i love playing, messin around, being silly or sarcastic, telling stories & watching new stories play out at work.
-goin to the grocery store & hearing a song & thinking of how it would be to dance to.
-pole tricks
-great customers that you just really jive with..seeing a customer all wide eyed & in awe if your body...getting compliments, (the other night a guy said,"wow! Your just like a video game girl!" I thought that was really cute)
-the pace...I can be sitting with some dickhead one minute broke as a joke, and 15 minutes later be in VIP livin it up and Rollin in dough.
-the randomness & uncertainty of how the night will go. Even though tonight was boring & I made shit, othet nights have started out like that & there is no cap on how much you might earn.
Glad I could help remind you of the positives, stay strong girl :)