Hi all,
I originally posted something on "Coming Out" but I think it should have been here. Excuse my newbie-ness ;-)
Currently I work as a hostess in London (i.e. sitting and chatting with customers for champagne commission but no dancing). At work yesterday both the manager and the owner picked fights with me over stuff which upset me and put me in a bad mood. In my club you can't make that much money if you don't want to then go back to some guy's hotel room, which I don't want to get into.
I think I've been in such a good mood since Sunday when I decided to do it that I may not have thought about it properly. Stripping is something I've always had in my mind that I wanted to try, though.
Tonight I've got an audition at one of the big London clubs who also recruit for their Paris club.
I really want to do Paris because I know people in London and in Paris I won't worry about someone coming in that I know. I know London's enormous but the possibility is there more than anywhere. I'd love to do America but I can't risk getting deported and since I'm English I can just go to France with no visa. It would be better to earn the pound than the euro but never mind.
In three months I start a grad job that will last a year. It's something I enjoy but a long time to spend in one place. This is something that hopefully I can get out of my system before I go. Of course, it's also partly because I'm hoping to make a lot of money in a short time.
I managed to rope an ex-stripper friend who I work with into coming with me to the audition tonight. It would be cool to go to Paris together. I asked her how she felt when she was stripping in New Zealand and she said that it depended on the crowd. Sometimes blokes would bring their girlfriends and they'd make bitchy noises while she was dancing. I don't know how I would handle negative reaction to my body. I'm fairly body-confident though I suppose so I should be able to brush it off.
I did an underwear modelling shoot recently - I know it's massively different - but although about 10 people could see me I was able to relax to an extent as I knew that's all they could do: no touching.
Your forums are great. The main thing that bothers me from reading them is if the other girls are horrible. One post advised never even telling girls your real name! I mean, if I was introducing myself to a new hostess I'd tell them my real name.
I hate lying to my parents but I'm doing that already. I'm doing it as much for the experience as the money. If I really put my mind to it and took some awful sales job in the city I'm sure I could make a comparible amount.
So this time I'm really only going to tell a couple of people. When I was hostessing some people were so judgemental despite the club I worked in being totally above-board as regards extras. My best friend knows and also my friends who used to be strippers or hostesses.
Well I'm off to this audition tonight. Writing this was very theraputic for me actually.
So for the rest of the day I'm going to practise the moves my other stripper mate taught me at the weekend. I'm sure I'll look like Bambi trapped in a hedge but they did say no experience necessary.
Any tips or comments, ladies? I'm nervous.



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