At the club I work, day shift can be depressing as hell, just like what you described. The sad thing is more and more NIGHT SHIFTS are looking like the day you described as well. For instance, last night, Tuesday night, I worke from 8pm-2am and we literally had 8 customers the WHOLE TIME. One of the slowest night shifts I've ever worked in my whole entire life! But the club I'm at is just kinda that way--it's pretty slow, laid back place, and although it CAN get really busy (I've seen it packed wall to wall) that generally only happens LATE LATE at night on Fridays and Saturdays (like after 2am). In a way, I kinda LIKE that it's slow, because I'm just generally a laid back person and I don't like too many men in the place at one time. I have social anxiety problems and I just like things to remain mellow and to have some open space in the club because when it gets BUSY you can't even walk around or breathe or anything! No spaces to sit down or dance ect, and for me, I find that it's harder to work environments like that vs. a slower night at the club.
And honestly, I like slow nights because girls give up and go home or just sit in the back and moan about life. Sorry to say it, but that makes MY job easier because if I'm the only girl who keeps going and who DOESN'T give up on making money on any given slow night, chances are I will bank. Remember that even if only 8 men walk through that door, if you can get 8 men to buy VIP 8 times, that's still A LOT OF MONEY. And when you eliminate a lot of competition, and take away a lot of other stimulation, I personally find it's a quicker and easier sell. So like last night, which was SUPER SUPER SLOW, I still ended up walking out with 500+ while most of the girls (the ones who gave up and just sat in the dressing room bitching about not making money) walked with nothing.
You JUST HAVE TO HAVE THE RIGHT ATTITUDE to work on slower days or nights. You can't let the slower vibe get to you and you can't let it get you depressed. Just act like you're having the time of you life even if you're BORED OUT OF YOUR SKULL, and when you come over to a guy, he'll be happy to have you sit with him because, well, there's nothing else to do in the club and no one else there. It's the same sorta idea with day shift; day shift and slow nights are very similar. Only day shift tends to have the advantage of even LESS girls on any given day, and usually beginner dancers or older, more mature ladies who are over the crazy night shift. So because of this, I find there is less dancer to dancer drama and over all, it's just a more mellow shift to work with less girls, less competition, less stress, less bullshit. Because also at night, it's a different hustle because there are all those drunk young men that hit the strip club at night that just wanna talk to you and try to take you home. All in all, at night, the crowds are younger and drunker and ruder. During the day, I've always found, that it may be older men that come in, but they come in TO BUY DANCES, not to just "talk" and "get drunk with their friends", which makes working them for money a LOT easier.
All in all, I'm a day shift girl that will put up with nights if they are more money and if they aren't super busy. I'm the sort of person that if I MUST work nights, I won't work weekend nights (because it gets too busy!). I mean, in this economy, I have made myself work a Friday and a Saturday, and it's not too bad, not overwhelmingly busy, but even so, I just like working more laid back days. As it is, things are so slow, I could work a day shift and NOT EVEN BE ABLE to tell the difference from a night shift at my current club. So I'm on nights for now, and making good money, mainly because I'm the only girl who bothers to work at work. And I have NO problem with that!

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