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    Question Working In Corporate Clubs

    ? For long-time dancers who have worked in different kinds of clubs-

    I auditioned at a corporate club months ago. I liked the club but was intimidated by the competition and irritated at the way management treated the dancers.

    I'm at a stage in life where part-timing at a Brand Name club in a large metro area would be better 100% than staying where I am, at a small privately owned club. My earnings have stagnated and I know I am capable of making more in a nicer club. I am also tired of the drama and friction of working with the same people for months at a time.

    How do I find the right chain club to travel to? How do I change my mode of thinking (from spoiled small-club Big Fish to newbie Little Fish in a Big Ocean of earnings potential?

    Open ears here.....

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    Default Re: Working In Corporate Clubs

    I sympathize. I've been working at a chain club for a year now...and my only options in SF are corporate chain clubs (as I've been whining about in numerous posts for the past few weeks, lol).

    Anyway, what's helped me (and maybe could help you) is just revising my thinking. Your only purpose of being there is to grab up as much $$$ as you possibly can in 6 hours and get out. Ignore the other girls completely, and you won't feel intimidated by them. They're not even on your radar. All you see and all you care about is money. The only people you're interested in even saying hello to are customers who can potentially give you money.

    Whenever you feel intimidated by the big club, stop and change your thinking--remind yourself that a big club can fit in more people and generate more business, which means more $$$ potential for you. When management does something annoying or tries to micromanage you, let it roll right off you and go console yourself by selling a VIP room and making a few hundred more dollars. In my experience, when you've got the hustle blinders on, you don't even see any of the drama and can fly totally off the management's radar.

    And after about a month with your hustle blinders on, they really won't want to give you a hard time, b/c they'll see that you're making the club money. The upside to working corporate clubs is that since they take such a large cut of your money, it's easy to get favorable treatment just by being a top earner. If you're a top earner, you're also making the club more money, and they will usually bend over backward to keep you from going to another club.

    Just focus your attention 100% on MONEY, and the rest will follow. It doesn't matter if management are assholes and the other girls are bitches and the DJs play you shitty corporate-club bubblegum top 40...all that is irrelevant. Ignore it all and get your money. I would love to have laid-back managers and a low-pressure atmosphere, and to be able to dance to real techno instead of shitty music that I hate...but in the big picture, that's not why I'm there. I can chill out and listen to great house mixes on my ipod when I'm riding home at night with $500+ in my bag.

    And if you're making more $$ than you could at your current club, you won't have to work as much, and the club will be less a part of your daily life. Think of all the things you could do with the extra time, if you could work less than you are at your current club and still make more $$. It's easy to avoid the things that piss you off about corporate clubs when you're only there 3 nights a week and the rest of your life is yours.

    You've been doing this awhile; you've got everything it takes to succeed at a large upscale club. If you can shake it and charm people and bank in one type of club environment, you can do the same thing in ANY environment.
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    Default Re: Working In Corporate Clubs

    ^^^^

    Great advice. Thanks. I'm transitioning to a corporate club from smaller local clubs, too, and I needed to hear that.

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