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    Angry Hung up my heels for Hooters

    Well, really, I guess I hung them up "temporarily" because I needed a break from the drug/drinking culture that was growing stronger in my club...and when I decided I was ready to go back (to a different club or to the same one with a better attitude) my boyfriend decided he "couldn't handle that". He says he can't even handle me doing contests.

    Now, I have a stripper pole in my room and dancing has been something I've really gotten into in the past two years. I have tons of outfits, a catalouge of like 100 songs or more. I feel like I can take it to an art, have a great time and at the same time just sell, sell, sell with it. I want to be able to buy a house and I feel like I should be saving all that I can right now. I have roughly 3 1/2 years to go before I'll be an R.N. and making enough to save, so I guess I could scrape by on waitress wages till then but damnit this guy better be worth it!

    I know alot of you might have been in this situation before and said "Sorry honey, this is what I did when you met me and it's what I'm gonna keep doing". Theoretically, I could make the same as I was stripping some nights (2-3 hundred). But more than likely it's going to be a couple of $150 nights for a buttload of hard work, and I'll miss those 5-7 hundred nights when I'm too exhausted to cram for my chemistry tests.

    boo hoo life is hard. I guess it could be alot worse. I needed to whine. Thanks for listening.

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    Well, Good Luck

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    I just stopped dancing and started waitressing at my club. The money can be just as much as when I was dancing some days, but it's definitely a lot more work. But I find I actually like it.

    I thought about going to Hooters, but I have too many tattoos. They'll hire flat chested girls but no tattooed girls.

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    I hate to be negative, but Hooters is rough (worked there twice, and it's an ass-kicking. $200-300/night will NOT be common). Why are you letting a guy dictate what you do for a living? You said you guess you can "scrape by", by doing this. Why would you settle for that? For this guy? You sound like you are a smart girl otherwise, with some great goals (and your avatar is hot!).

    If he is "worth it" like you said, he will support you in whatever you choose to do.
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    Quote Originally Posted by txchick008 View Post
    I hate to be negative, but Hooters is rough (worked there twice, and it's an ass-kicking. $200-300/night will NOT be common). Why are you letting a guy dictate what you do for a living? You said you guess you can "scrape by", by doing this. Why would you settle for that? For this guy? You sound like you are a smart girl otherwise, with some great goals (and your avatar is hot!).

    If he is "worth it" like you said, he will support you in whatever you choose to do.
    sometimes there is more to the story than "letting a guy dictate what you do for a living"

    My boyfriend hated that I was working in a strip club because it was embarrassing for him. embarrassing for his culture that his girl would even have to set foot in a place like that to make money. now I don't necessarily agree - I respect him because that's how relationships work. respecting other people's feelings, wishes, opinions.

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    So you are going to go bust your ass because your bf doesn't want you to work in a stripclub? If he says," jump" will you say," How high?"

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    I think how we do things/who we are is more important than what we do. There are waitresses who are with poorer morals than a lot of dancers-it's all about character and what we bring to the situation.

    It's really important to set our own values. We then need to be true to ourselves by living according to those-whether at church or at a strip club. If you think stripping (or ANYTHING) is demeaning to you, by all means, get out asap. But, the boyfriend (or anyone) determining our ideals is red flag alert, I don't care what the topic.

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    Yeah. He's been really making an effort to be supportive and appreciative. I understand his concern because I have had problems with controlling myself and feeling good about myself the whole time I danced. So it seems like he's taking a bit of a fatherly attitude. Which is fine because maybe I could have used more of that type of concern a long time ago.

    I think I will wait till my training is done, and I'll work ONE MONTH of serving shifts, in addition to my science classes and see if I can pay the rent, have time left over for my dog, find peace and so on. If I can't, and it just feels like too much, dancing will always be there for me. I'm not gonna take down my pole just yet- I think I could probably find a fascinated housewife who wants to learn how to striptease maybe.

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    I think you've got a lot of options. I just went through LVN school and I honestly don't think I could have made it working at Hooter's and going through nursing school. I worked at Hooter's a few years ago and on a freak night I made $300 and was ecstatic. I generally made around $100-$150. Good luck to you and I hope everything works out for you!!

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    Hmm, well good luck and I hope things work out for the best. Let us know how it goes.

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    I only have two things to say.

    1. He better be damn willing to help you with money if you need it.

    2. How is Hooter's better than stripping? It's like stripping without taking your clothes off.

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    I quit dancing for a while to make things work more easily with my last boyfriend. He was my world, I would have done anything for him. I put my house savings on hold and dipped into them a little...

    It is literally the only thing I regret in my life. Now that we are broken up, I feel like I not only wasted the last year, but feel less secure financially. Make sure he's worth it!

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    ^ you never know that they're not until it's too late, that's the problem.

    You would make more money giving air dances all night than working at Hooter's.

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    ^ I have quit so many times for men, and it was that which always destroyed the relationship - the loss of my livelihood - not the stripping.

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    Wow. He can't handle stripping, so you're going to Hooter's where you actually have to wait hand-and-foot on the same men you could spit at while stripping.

    Ok.

    I can tell he really cares about your well-being and it's not just his bullshit pride.

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    Quote Originally Posted by KennedyWinters View Post
    Yeah. He's been really making an effort to be supportive and appreciative. I understand his concern because I have had problems with controlling myself and feeling good about myself the whole time I danced. So it seems like he's taking a bit of a fatherly attitude. Which is fine because maybe I could have used more of that type of concern a long time ago.

    I think I will wait till my training is done, and I'll work ONE MONTH of serving shifts, in addition to my science classes and see if I can pay the rent, have time left over for my dog, find peace and so on. If I can't, and it just feels like too much, dancing will always be there for me. I'm not gonna take down my pole just yet- I think I could probably find a fascinated housewife who wants to learn how to striptease maybe.
    From your post, it seems like this is not a male ego situation. Seems like a well thought out plan and a healthy decision for both of you. I hope it works out for you.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Dottie Rebel View Post
    Wow. He can't handle stripping, so you're going to Hooter's where you actually have to wait hand-and-foot on the same men you could spit at while stripping.

    Ok.

    I can tell he really cares about your well-being and it's not just his bullshit pride.
    QFT.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Dottie Rebel View Post
    Wow. He can't handle stripping, so you're going to Hooter's where you actually have to wait hand-and-foot on the same men you could spit at while stripping.

    Ok.

    I can tell he really cares about your well-being and it's not just his bullshit pride.
    ^^

    Agreed.
    You will be 'their bitch' at Hooters (trust me, I know). Prepare to hear "get me a beer" about 50 times a night, and go home after an 8 hour shift with $100, an aching back, and smelling like hot wings.

    Honestly, I felt like THAT job was BY FAR more embarassing than what I do now.
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    ^Agreed. Thank God I "got out" of waitressing. That job made me feel like shit.

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    Quote Originally Posted by BirdofEden View Post
    I worked at that joke of a place before. Be prepared to deal with just as much drama as a SC, only coming from girls in their late teens (18/19/20). Have fun at daycare! LOL! And they must train the managers to ALL be condescending douchebags that play jokes on girls and laugh when they cry (I witnessed them doing this to girls countless times). Get ready to be brainwashed into a new corporate identity (you are not an individual girl, you are a super Hooters robot with tits), be punished for not selling your quota of cheesy merchandise that not even Gilligan would buy (you don't even get commission), and be lined up with all the other girls in the morning like cattle for inspection to make sure you have no runs on your hose or pen marks on your shirt, and that your shorts are to the exact millimeter in length on your ass (or they make you buy a new pair), and pray you pass inspection or suffer punishment for not being up to Hooters Robot Brand Standards! But hey, if you give one of the managers head in the office, you may get to be the bartender if you keep up the good work, for about 6-8 months.
    And so the Hooters secrets come out.
    It sounds like you had a horrible experience with Hooters, BirdofEden. Why am I not surprised that things like that go on.
    Anyone willing to give head to a Hooters manager to 'climb the corporate ladder' is a twit and deserves to spend the rest of her days serving wings.

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    Waitressing/bartending is what made me become a stripper. I told myself if I was going to be treated like shit by men, I was going to be robbing them at the same time.

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    Maybe it's because I worked at Hooters 10 years ago, when I was living in Dallas, but I LOVED that job. It was the easiest job I've ever had and by far the most fun. All the girls were friends, we loved our managers... it was awesome.

    It wasn't GREAT money but at least $100 a night and all we did was play around and have fun.

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    I never understood the whole "my bf doesn't agree with stripping and I respect that, so I'm going to quit"....um....shouldn't they also respect you for being pro-stripping? Why do you (not the OP specifically but strippers in general) have to give up EVERYTHING? It's not like stripping is going to the clubs for fun and getting shit faced every night, it's a job, a limited opportunity, hopefully you find it fun, and a growing experience. His beliefs are just that, intangible moral codes his pushing on you. While important, if he can't see how his gf stripping out weighs his own beliefs for her entire future (school, finances) and well being, that's pretty self centered.


    If you were getting cought up in the drug scene, or saw yourself becoming someone you didn't want to be and your bf didn't agree then, don't go back. But his opinion should really come second to your own.

    FWIW: My bf was against stripping and I told him that it was what I wanted to do and it was what I was going to do. I told him that if he can't learn to deal with it then we weren't meant to be and we'd be saving ourselves the time and hurt anyways. He decided to stay and I decided to strip and a year later (three years into the relationship) he's still here and we are MORE happy than we've ever been.

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    well said, joplin.

    My last boyfriend wanted me to give it up. He never actually came out and said it, but would say stuff like, "don't you want more for yourself?" and I could tell the relationship would never progress until he was comfortable introducing me to his family.

    And I did consider it. I could work at a desk job.

    But then I pictured my life. I'd be taking a huge pay cut, probably making about 60k. I'd probably feel deprived, not be able to have the things I want, when I want them. That's not just about money. That's freedom.

    I'd probably hate my job too. I'd hate that it'd consume the majority of my awake hours and it'd be something that would bore the hell out of me.

    We'd probably get married, have kids that I didn't really want, but had because I thought it'd make me happy to fill the void in my life. I'd probably start putting weight on. That is something I keep in check because I know I have to. I'd probably start hearing from him that I let myself go too.

    I really tried to picture the relationship if we did get married because ultimately, if it wasn't going to work out long term, then the decision to quit dancing was moot. The image of me driving a minivan with a bunch of kids and coming home to a man that I resented because he represented giving up my freedom for a life that was mostly unfulfilling seemed depressing.

    Not that dancing is necessarily fulfilling, but I'd rather be unfulfilled getting massages and seeing the world.

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