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    After I get back in town next week, I'm finding a new club to work at on a regular basis, and I'm going to limit my shifts at my current club to two a week. I like it there, but until I gain the seniority to work multiple night shifts a week, working more than two day shifts a week is not cutting it. I'm putting a lot of energy into my stage shows and I should be more focused on hustling and making serious cash, not $200 a day. It will be worth it to stick with this club in the long run, but right now I can't give them 20 hours of my time a week. Ten is more acceptable while I'm working my way up.

    I need at least $500 a night, and I know it can be done. I just have to put in the hustle and find the right club. I've made over $900 a night here before, but it's not going to happen where I'm dancing now, much as I like the staff, girls and owners at my current workplace. The two night shifts I have worked have been $400 nights, but I tip out $70 so it turns out to be more like a little above $300.

    I wonder how I should go about finding this new club. I suppose I should try to audition at two places where I think I can make the most money the first week, and then go from there. I also need to quit drinking at work completely.

    Just posting this to encourage myself and hold myself accountable.

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    You know what the large, high-potential clubs are, so yes, I would try them out, but honestly, you will need to work a consistent schedule above all. Even if you only commit to the same two nights every week there it will make a difference. And you know that you will be selling and hustling a lot more than where you are now.

    Days and mids at the stage-centered clubs in PDX are a total crapshoot, even for the most established dancers. You're right to want to spend your energy elsewhere. I think giving them a shift or two a week is the sound business decision for you.

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    That's a really good suggestion. I either need a club where I can come and go as I please (Viewpoint) or work a consistent schedule of nights (maybe Exotica or Dolphin). They've been fair with me at the stage club, but I need to work at a more private dance-centered club if I plan to live the way I want to live and take care of rent, utilities, medical bills, tuition, books, health insurance, car insurance, gas, and food. I want to work one shift a week and make $500, not three or four to make the same amount. I think it's worth it to work even two day or mid shifts a week consistently to eventually get night shifts at this club, though. I suppose I should try to balance it out with four or five shifts of working total.

    I made about $260 the other day at the stage club, so it's not completely dismal, but that's not the norm and there is definitely an income ceiling there wouldn't be at many other places. My hustle's off, though, and I've been drinking for a month.

    I wonder how much seniority matters at other places in the country; it seems to be really important at at least three Portland clubs I can think of (that are known for their rocking night shifts when you can get 'em).

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    It's not seniority so much as it is favoritism, and also the shifts are so limited -- you know, two to six or eight dancers a shift limits it a lot more than a club that can have twenty or more dancers a night.

    Anyhow, at clubs where dancers aren't given a schedule (rather than setting their own, and there are clubs where you keep a schedule but you pick your shifts), seniority/being in good w/the scheduler matters not at all.

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    Right, I am still figuring out how I can get better shifts, etc. Fellow stripper #1 told me she was pissed I got two mids the first week because she had never been given a mid, and fellow stripper #2 said that they've never given her more than mids and she's been there longer than I have. So I actually feel lucky to have been given two night shifts in five weeks, although fellow strippers #3 and #4 were put on a night shift their first week there (now they are working days because they prefer them, they say).

    So yeah, favoritism does make more sense.

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