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    Default Need to find a club in Portland that will take me.

    I need to know if anyone has any leads on a club that's cool with a girl who isn't thin? I know I should take some time off and kick my own ass into shape but not working is just not an option right now. I've figured out a supplement and diet regimen that in conjunction with dancing should peel the extra ten ponds or so off of me in a couple weeks, but these things cost money. I also need to buy a few new outfits or at least a few new pieces because four years worth of accumulated dance costumes AND all of my lingerie were tossed out by an apartment building that I had moved out of that had offered to store my stuff for a month. Never got my dancebag when I went to pick up my stuff to put it in storage and after weeks of banging my head against a wall trying to get my stuff back, I was casually informed that it was abandoned and thrown away. Assholes!!

    I'd appreciate any leads you might have because I'm not going into another audition only to be told that I'm too fat. It's humiliating and it hurts and it's a colossal waste of my time and energy. this time when I call to set up a time I'm just going to tell the person that I'm not skinny and should I even bother? A fat girl's time apparently has no value. seems about right since apparently I have none either.

    I'm not looking to book weekend night shifts at some swank joint, Just some days at a dive so I can firm it up, get back into the swing of things and try to make a go of dancing again. The pirates cove actually had me start a shift yesterday then made me go home once they got ahold of some bony chick with no chest and bad skin wearing a half-inch of foundation that looked as if she put it on with a trowel. She should have spackled before she painted because she had pockmarks you could lose a golf ball in.

    It's Not as if I was super successful but I enjoyed the work for the most part and it kept me in shape. I really hope this isn't too much to ask.

    I'm about to throw in the towel and that's not an option either.

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    Default Re: Need to find a club in Portland that will take me.

    What size are you? There have been girls up to size 12/14 at pretty much every club I've ever worked at in Portland, and a few bigger than that too.

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    Default Re: Need to find a club in Portland that will take me.

    I browsed some of your other posts and I saw that you're a size 10. I don't think you would have much a problem getting hired (at least for days/mids) at most clubs in Portland. I'm surprised to read that you've been fired from places like Pirate's Cove. Almost makes me wonder if there's actually something else going on or some other reason they don't want you to work.

    I was recently working at Rose City Strip and DV8 and there were a couple girls around size 10 here and there. There are a lot of teeny tiny 19-21 year olds at those clubs in general though, so if you're insecure about your size you might feel kinda weird. I'm currently about a size 6/7 and I was often the biggest girl on shift (definitely not always though). I didn't feel like it affected my money but if I was having a crappy night sometimes insecurity would start to creep in if I saw some 92 pound teenager making shitloads of money. Mason let me work basically any shifts I wanted, nights/weekends/whatever, except occasionally if I'd called in sick or something he would give me all mids to punish me I guess. But I liked mids too, so I didn't care, and he would usually end up asking me to work Saturday night or whatever anyway.

    I have no idea what you look like (actually didn't I work with you years ago at Magic?) but I suggest you glam it up as much as possible. If you don't have long hair, get clip-in extensions. Wear some fake lashes. Wear real stripper clothes, not thrift store lingerie, at least for your audition. I think non-stripper clothes can look great and a lot of customers like lacy panties instead of neon spandex or whatever, but I think it's good to look like a professional stripper for the audition when you're worried they might not hire you. Try to carry yourself like you know you're hot shit. Fake it til you make it if you have to.

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    I'm about a 10. I've been turned down at my last two try outs. additionally I have gone into places during the advertised audition hours and ask to try out, the guy looks me up and down and then says something like " we can't do an audition now" or "come back on such and such a day". Honestly I don't know which is worse; not being allowed to even try out or having someone let me try out then turn me down. it all just seems like a colossal mind screw and a waste of the time and energy I put into preparing for a try out: makeup, picking out which items from my limited stock to take with me in case they ask me to stay and work. It's bullcrap. there's some sort of game going on, I just don't get the point of it. I mean I could stand to lose ten pounds, this is true, but it's not as if I'm ugly, I'm actually sort of a looker. I'm a little long in the tooth by dancing standards but I don't look anywhere near my age. Do you think it's the economy or something? times are tough so a lot of girls are turning to dancing thus the talent pool is large enough that they just dismiss anyone with some meat on them right out of hand? this is a possible rationale but seems kind of dumb since a LOT of guys like a girl with something to hold on to. This is probably more info than is strictly necessary but I have few "special guy friends" that I see and they never shut up about how attractive I am and how much they love my body.

    I just spoke with the owner of the first place that shut me down. He asked me to come in to his second club and see him. I'm using everything in me to stay optimistic about this meeting but after yesterday's trainwreck at the Pirate's Cove, I'm tempted to just stay home and hold on to what dignity I have left and accept the fact that I'm just not thin/young/ pretty enough to dance and stop torturing myself trying to get a foot back in the door of an industry that clearly doesn't want me and go work at McDonald's or something. That can't be any more humiliating than being told you're substandard.

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    Well, I really think you should try DV8/RCS. There's a lot of turnover there and Mason ALWAYS wants more girls. He usually books 5-6 girls on mids and 6-13 on nights, so he needs to keep quite a few girls in his stripper pool to fill both clubs. He'll "audition" you over the phone, so at least if he decides to reject you you wont have wasted time getting all fancy and traveling to a club for nothing. When I got hired he just asked me my height/weight (I shaved off five pounds), and where I'd danced before, and then he had me send him a photo over the phone. He did come check me out in person when I was at my second or third shift, so I guess it's possible he might decide to not schedule you anymore if he doesn't like you, but I never saw any new girls get sent home mid-shift or anything during the four months I was working at those clubs.
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    Yeah, I wondered if you were the same anna. There is NO WAY IN HELL that mason would hire me. He hates me and the feeling is sort of mutual. The problem with trying to glam it up is that I don't HAVE any of my old actual stripper duds. They're long gone through no fault of my own. I have precisely 33 dollars to my name with which to buy hair, costumes, dish soap cat food....

    I would suspect that your theory is true about why they didn't take me at the cove except WHY insult my appearance when that wasn't the reason. Besides, I worked there briefly before and I left on what I would assume were good terms. So I don't think that it's a problem with me personally but a problem with my person. Now I know Jared at Hawthorne must have some axe to grind with me since he fired me twice with no reason, at least none that I was made aware of. I worked there when he had JUST taken the place over and it was still called Dino's. This is what I think the reason is: I was helping him close up after working a night shift and he hit on me and ran his finger on the strip of exposed skin between my jeans and my sweater. I told him not to do that, having just left safari because of some drama resulting from an unwise dalliance with one of the DJ's which I chalked up to being brand new and not knowing any better than to get involved with a guy you worked with, especially one who treated his workplace like his own personal brothel. So to the best of my knowledge those are the only two owners in town that have a problem with me. Damn I wish I still had my old clubby dance clothes. Any idea where I can pick up an actual stripper outfit for a song inside the next three and a half hours?

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    How long ago did you work for Mason? Maybe he wouldn't remember you, especially if you use a different name. He sees so many different strippers. I hate him too, and I quit because he tried to make me pay a $25 fine for NOTHING. I definitely have issues with him, like the fact that he's all into white power (wtf), but I really barely ever saw him or had to deal with him at all and other than the fine situation which caused me to walk out/quit I never had any problems.
    I probably shouldn't say much about the HS situation since I'm currently working there again, but yeah you are not alone. I wouldn't recommend HS these days anyway, it's fucking SLOW. Some shifts only, like, five people come through the door. I'm not exaggerating. I'm only back there because I haven't gotten off my ass to audition anywhere else since I quit DV8 and RCS.
    What about Mary's? You might only get one shift a week but so many girls really love it there. I got hired there as a size 12 or so but that was way back in 2006 (same time I started working at Magic). I personally didn't like it there and didn't make much money, but a friend of mine works there now and makes bank. She's a hustler though. Could you go back to Magic?

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    Oh and as far as outfits for auditioning, do you have solid black booty shorts? Or whatever bottoms are most flattering on you. A black bikini top? You don't need anything fancy. Simple and coordinated is good.

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    I really wish I could muster up more strength than I have right now. it's just so draining being rejected. if this meeting/go see/ try out/ begging and pleading doesn't go well and he tells me to hit the bricks that's just it. I'm gonna take my dolls and go home. If the industry in this town can't appreciate me then fuck them. They won't have sarah to kick around anymore. I'm sure they'll all be devastated.

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    Default Re: Need to find a club in Portland that will take me.

    What club are you going to tonight?

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    Also, to elaborate on what I wrote above about maybe there's some other reason why you're getting turned down: I was the main daytime bartender at HS for over a year and I essentially did the auditions. I didn't make the schedule, but I was the one who saw most of the auditions and if I told J. not to schedule someone he wouldn't. Of course I mostly turned down girls who were either too old or too big for J's liking, but there were also times that I rejected girls for having a bad attitude or for seeming shady/on drugs. I turned down girls if they seemed super bitchy and full of themselves because I could tell they weren't gonna fit in or thought they were above the rest of us, and I turned down girls for being really low self esteemy and negative because I could tell they would drag down everyone else. In such tiny clubs it's pretty important for everyone to get along somewhat well and be able to work together. So maybe you're giving off some weird vibe that makes clubs not want to deal with you. From your posts here you do seem pretty down on yourself.

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