Usually if I'm sick or too sore from working my last shift. I'm getting old.![]()
I just don't feel like it tonight. Money isn't worth my sanity.
I'm hungover from last night.
I'm sore from working so much.
I have anxiety about work.
I decided to go out and have fun at the last minute.
I'm tired or don't have the emotional energy for it.
I don't feel like dealing with the assholes.
I'm overwhelmed from school and need to study.
My kids need me at home at this particular moment.
I want to spend time with my significant other or friends.
I feel unprepared and unstripperific - I broke a nail, I'm having a bad hair day, etc.
I have a vague feeling tonight is going to suck and want to save my strength for another night
I practically have to force myself to go to work, this is no big surprise.
I have my period and am utterly miserable.
I'm sick.
Other - please specify





Usually if I'm sick or too sore from working my last shift. I'm getting old.![]()





a lot of those reasons are very similar
anxiety/not wanting to deal with assholes/not having the emotional energy/not being worth your sanity...
Usually because I feel unprepared-like I didn't work out the day before and feel fat, or forgot to tan or something.
Sometimes I'll be planning to go in the whole day, but as I'm starting to get ready I realize that I don't want to go and I rationalize taking the night off. It doesn't happen terribly often, maybe every other week or so.![]()





I'm tired or don't have the emotional energy for it.
Yup! I can only take so much before I need to spend time with myself as well as people I actually like being aroundHaving to be an extrovert when I'm naturally an introvert (as such) is energy sapping for me. If I work too much, I will burn out and then have to take more time off than I wanted.
My perfect strip club work balance is to work 2 nights from 9pm-3am (or similar hours), one night off rotation. The only time I can and will work 3-4 nights in a row is when I have to do so (because I'm contracted to do so) however usually by the fourth night I'm not just emotionally tired... I'm physically as well.
Nothing to do with fitness. Just know my limitations.![]()
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I am usually really good about going in. I keep a really regular schedule at my club and I tell a lot of guys my schedule throughout my shift, so I always feel like if I don't come in, I'm going to miss out.
I was sick a ridiculous amount last winter...like every other week...so that really really sucked. I also have a baby who would also get sick, so it just is terrible to want to work but not be able to. I really hate that. Like I had this great monetary goal I was all set to hit in May, but I hurt my back and was out a week.That went out the window.
Anyway, so what I'm saying is, when I'm healthy and able I try to make it. I mean, I didn't have much time today before work, so I went in with hairy legs and chipped nails. I know, kinda gross, but whatever, you have to do what you have to do. And you know, I actually had a really good night. So I'm glad I didn't sweat that.
I think it's important to have down time though. I'll have to do that this year, so I don't throw my back out again.
I'm confused, but the Chewbacca Truffle Shuffle cleared it up. - Emily
Most of those reasons, except for hangovers/kids. Usually, because of the anxiety/sanity stuff, often rationalized by tell myself it wouldn't be a good night anyway.
I took a lot of anxiety days for the first year or two that I danced, then started going in whether I was feeling it or not. I found I made surprisingly good money on nights when I didn't want to be there at all, but then I burned out pretty severely. I wonder if giving myself more nights off would have been better in the long run.
So far whenever I haven't gone into work its been because I couldn't get there. I don't have my own car and so I have to schedule working around whether or not a friend can drive me, what times the train goes there etc. Drives me insane when I *want* to work and I can't!
Mine is, I just don't feel like it.
It seems to be important to me to exercise frequently/prove to myself the fact that I really can and do pick my own hours. I think I need to grow out of that and just show up. No one is impressed but me!
usually it's because i have a better offer to go out i usually try to work on nights i wouldn't be tempted to go out mon tues ect because then i know i will be focused.
I picked "I have a vague feeling tonight is going to suck and want to save my strength for another night" but that crosses into the money not being worth my energy. Sometimes however I just cant be arsed!![]()


Morgan, your club sounds horrible. Please get out of there and find somewhere else. Every club I worked at gives girls a break on tipout and house fee if they make no money.
Anyway my only reason i ever stay home is because i want to spend time with my bf who i rarely see, and this is usually only on slow days, though it used to be on weekends back when I was still in school. my other reason would be that i worked a day job and am too tired to go to the club though i have been able to work 9-5 at an office and then go into the club from 6-12 a few times. i work every day of the week otherwise, because really i have nothing else to do, might as well try to make some money you know? I'm in LA and business is slow here so i never get sore from too much dancing because i dont give that many dances :-/
Also you guys feeling fat really shouldnt be worried about it. i see big girls earn tons of money all the time. in fact last night i only made 300 and this girl who was twice as big as me that many would consider fat made what looks like at least 1k (we were both checking out with management at the same time this is how i know)
Cuz I miss my honey. He's not home enough as it is, when he is, I want to be.




Sick, though I'm sure if I had (or if I will) work more shifts, just being sore and straining something would be up there.
Last edited by CuriousSeeker; 06-16-2008 at 11:00 PM.
"Don't piss off a motivated stripper."
Well, I stayed home Saturday night cause I just started my period. That kinda sucked but I was crampy, gross and hadn't slept well the night before ( oh and bleeding like crazy). So, ya, I guess that's a reason why I skip out also.
I'm confused, but the Chewbacca Truffle Shuffle cleared it up. - Emily



Its usually because Im tired. Im in a 0 hustle club, but youre up on stage so often that its insane, and I work 5 days a week (when I dont bitch out)



I often don't feel like going in because I'm fed up with the business and the assholes in it. I enjoy spending evenings with my children and husband.
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