I live in North Eastern Ohio and havn't danced for a year... but now I am thinking of going back. Currently, 0I work as a math tutor (the pay isn't a lot but it's better than minimum wage.) I also go to school. I am not in complete financial dire straights but I really do miss what a dancer income can provide.
I quit because
1.) I was worried that the hours would affect me going to school.
2.) I would drink too much.
3.) Where I was dancing there were always undercover cops who were willing to bust you for not having all the pasty on your nipple. It made me paranoid to think of something like that on my record. I also was paranoid of the club being raided. (I'm sure that all the Northeast Ohio strippers know exactly on what street and what neighbor I danced in by this comment.)
4.) All the crazy stresses that come with being a stripper.
5.) My libido was going into oblivion. It still hasn't fully recovered.
6.) It just seemed that there were less and less spending customers in every day. The few customers that we did get made the strip club look like chuckie cheese. It was hard to make money off of kids who still lived with their suburban parents but wanted to pretend that they were in some sick rap video/house party combo.
But despite all that I really did love dancing. I loved the money and the hours. I was a very good earner, and the vast majority of the time I was a top earner. I left in February of 07 when people in Ohio were paranoid about the stripping ban and economy was going from crap to shit. I was mostly just getting paranoid and discouraged. Everyday just felt more like pulling teeth just to get a lap dance. When I started, it seemed that I spent more time dancing. Money seemed so easy to make and there were more paying customers. (The older strippers will probably laugh at this paragraph since I only worked for a few years but they know how things were in the 90s.)
I feel that after taking a year off I am older and wiser about stripping (yeah, I know I am still a snot nosed, 22 year old kid.) I have read stripperweb off and on this entire time. I have busted out my old dusty copies of the dancer wealth home study course and superflirt. I feel like I am in better shape now than I was a year ago.
So... for all the strippers who took an extended time off and got back into it... what made you come back and most importantly how did you do it? I feel better that I have experience but I am afraid that I may have "lost something" over the year. But I do have dreams. I have dreams of paying off all my debts and even having some type of nest egg for myself. I also had fun as a stripper.
Sorry for the long post... I hope I don't sound like I have a split personality talking about how much I loved my job and then talking about things that I hated about it. I also hope it's legible considering how I have had no sleep and am writing this. Also if any strippers from N.E. Ohio could give me advice on clubs that are still alive, that would be appreciated.



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