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Stripping as a 2nd job??
I work full-time Mon-Fri 9 to 5 during the week. I dance weekends until 4 a.m. I keep it a secret especially to my newfound friends at my regular job. Does anyone have a similar lifestyle? has it worked out for you? is it difficult juggling between the different jobs?
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I personally cannot empathise in any way as stripping is my main source of income (my main business). What typically happens (from my perspective) is that women in your position see the income that they are making from stripping "just on the weekend"... then see how meaningless, tiresome, or whatever negative their "job" is... and make the jump eventually.
It is like the old cocktail waitress joke "What's the difference between a waitress that works at a strip club and a stripper at the same club? About three weeks"
There is some truth in that humour.
I don't see the need for you to reveal the dancing to your new found "friends" unless you really see them are more than just work friends. I have a few dancers that I'm "friends" with however I really don't socialise with them outside of work... just that we are more "friends" in the networking sense more than anything.
Also, you MUST look after yourself. The money can become addictive (as well as just being on stage.. being a star as such)... so make sure that you are only doing it for the extra cash. If and when it starts to affect your first form of employment... drop it. Otherwise, you will have to choose whether to keep going or not.
Oh yeah.. let's not forget how this will affect your career in the long run.
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I have a regular partime job in addition to dancing. It help me keep myself in sink so that I don;t just get addicted to the money I'm making and I have a backup if I have a crappy night. Nobody know I dance except my boyfriend and that's how it's gotta be. It can be difficult at times but having a normal job helps me feel well more normal I guess.
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I have had a rough start to dancing (seems like something always happens) but tonight I am starting at a club. I have a full time day job that I sometimes make good money and am very busy and sometimes am slow and make crap. I don't plan to tell anyone about my dancing. I'm honestly a little paranoid about someone coming in because I work with a lot of guys, but I'll just deal with it if it happens. I actually met someone the other night when i was going to audition at another club and he knows people that I work with but I just kept to myself what my DAY JOB IS! So yeah, it could be easy for the two paths to cross. I hear constantly all kinds of put downs of dancers when I'm working (day job) and so I just don't feel like giving people the amunition to say that shit about me. I guess eventually it all could come out in the open but I'd like to just keep the two jobs totally separate and apart.
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Also i guess it's nice to have a fallback if you can't dance anymore...
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Originally Posted by leebay88
Also i guess it's nice to have a fallback if you can't dance anymore...
Very true! Dancing was my second job that turned into alot of years, and many early mornings only to head off to my corporate job. :)
But it worked.
Pamela
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Wow! My hat is off to any of you who've juggled the corporate job with a second job stripping. Where do you get the energy?
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Originally Posted by moneyman
Wow! My hat is off to any of you who've juggled the corporate job with a second job stripping. Where do you get the energy?
thanks...well I take it real easy from Mon thru Fri going to sleep early etc...then i'm ready for fri and sat nite.
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Stripping and dancing used to be my primary occupation. Now I run a wrecker service during the week and still strip and dance during the weekends. And sometimes during the week nights depending on what is available. It is a living.
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I'm a mother during the day and Dr. Phil has said that is worth 2 jobs, plus I dance at night. I think I go through my life as a zombie. I always work really hard for two weeks straight and then take a week off dancing.
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It seems to me, and pardon my naivete (sp?), that if you had the energy, dancing as a second job would be a wonderful way to get in a good work out and blow off some steam. I've toyed around with that idea myself for when I jump out into the real world. Plus it gives you a chance to be someone other than the corporate tighty or stay-home mom.
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Stripping is my 2nd of 3 jobs. I find the best thing to do, if possible, is keep jobs that can offer you shifts that are similar in hours. This doesnt stab your sleep schedule in the eye with a fork. My first job is evenings/early night, I dance evenings (with some day shifts), and my third job is overnights.
I cant say that I've ever JUST danced... I'm too worried about the cash flow being so... random. Yanno?
Juggling jobs isnt as hard as it seems. Just dont over work, dont do insanely different shifts, and if it starts to burn you out, adjust your hours or quit. Seriously. You can really cause yourself physical and emotional problems.
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I've almost always danced as a second job. You'll do fine. When working full time, or in school and working, I would dance 2 weekend a month 2-3 days straight.
Don't tell your friends, don't tell anyone. Trust me, they will judge.
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Yep, keep the day job. The cash flow is way too irregular now, lack of many good clubs, and you want to be able to say "F*ck you" to club management if they try to cross you. With a regular job you can afford to quit dancing when it's not worth it.
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I was in the same situation and I quit the full time job. I decided to make the change because I wanted to save up enough cash to go to school full time and pay my mortgage without having to work more than 2 nights a week. I start school this august and I'll only have to work one shift per week. For me, it was worth it. But I really miss paid vacations and health insurance benefits!
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The club I started at last night wanted me to be there by 7:00 or 7:30 on three nights a week. My day job has to come first and my schedule with it varies greatly, so it's not really something I could commit to so that was my first and last night at that club :(
I also had one guy come up and keep telling me I looked familiar but he wasn't sure from where. His job isn't one that involves my day job but it still was weird. I'm thinking about trying clubs in a nearby county.
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I am a bookkeeper during the week and dance some weekends. Works for me.
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Reading all this brought back memories from about thirty years ago. Upon graduating from college, I had a fulltime job in the corporate world. I held on to a parttime job as a bartender in a neighborhood bar. Eventually the bar changed ownership and became a strip club. I stayed on, but I knew if anyone from work found out, I'd lose the day job.
One night a new dancer came in for her shift. She was our department secretary. The words "Awkward Silence" don't begin to describe the next few minutes. We finally agreed, no one at work needs to know.
It worked out great, and eventually I left the club. A few weeks later I heard rumors about the department secretary, and it turned out she was likely to lose her job because she had been seen working at a strip club on a certain night. When anyone told me about it, I'd say "No, can't be. I was at my bible study class at St. Matthew's that night, and she was there with me."
It must have worked. She didn't get fired.
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JessVW43, I'm having the opposite problem. I thought I could make a good chunk of cash dancing on my slow days from my day job and so far I've made what I could make in one or two hours of my day job in 6 or 7 hours of dancing and it leaves me feeling a lot more beat up. I think working in clubs where people smoke is not for me also.
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Originally Posted by lwtex52
Reading all this brought back memories from about thirty years ago. Upon graduating from college, I had a fulltime job in the corporate world. I held on to a parttime job as a bartender in a neighborhood bar. Eventually the bar changed ownership and became a strip club. I stayed on, but I knew if anyone from work found out, I'd lose the day job.
One night a new dancer came in for her shift. She was our department secretary. The words "Awkward Silence" don't begin to describe the next few minutes. We finally agreed, no one at work needs to know.
It worked out great, and eventually I left the club. A few weeks later I heard rumors about the department secretary, and it turned out she was likely to lose her job because she had been seen working at a strip club on a certain night. When anyone told me about it, I'd say "No, can't be. I was at my bible study class at St. Matthew's that night, and she was there with me."
It must have worked. She didn't get fired.
OMG how embarrassing! I'm glad she didnt' get fired. i wonder who saw her working...I'd die.
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Originally Posted by alicia0033
OMG how embarrassing! I'm glad she didnt' get fired. i wonder who saw her working...I'd die.
We never did find out, but with an office where the top guy happened to be a pentecostal minister and a lot of people wanted to get ahead, there were a lot of suspects.
She moved to another club not long after, then quit after a year. We've kept in touch and still refer to each other as Sister Eileen and Father Fitzipper.
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Work for clubs, bars and parties on a regular basis. However, also work for and run a locksmith shop. Amazing sometimes, customers walk into the lock shop and say, "Haven't I seen before" Now. why would I lie? The names have been changed to protect the guilty.
WHAMMO!
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Yes, I did this for about six months. Worked at a law firm by day and stripped at night three nights a week.. usually Wednesday, Friday and Saturdays... I needed the extra money for debt I acquired in my divorce.. but was found out.. my former boss actually recruited me from the club to come and work for him... (it was a large firm).. I chose to retire... easier and I wanted to anyways...I stayed with stripping until I reached my goal and then I retired in NOvember of 2004 after 12 years in and out of this business... HOOO RAY!
Other than lack of sleep, I didn't mind it.
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Dancing is also my second job. Full-time M-F 9-6, then dancing 3 nights a week, plus being a mom. It is rough and exhausting, but somehow I manage..lol! A few people from my day job know what I do, my boss does and he's cool with it as long as it doesn't affect my day time performance. I've got past the point where it would be akward to see someone from work there, so if they come in and see me thats ok, but they better tip me or they will catch hell the next day at work!!!
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I am a 911 emergency Dispatcher full time, also a Vol Firefighter. I like the fact that when I go to the club I get away from all the insanity from my other jobs. My dispatching job is way to stressful....and not enough pay for what we do!