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    Default What's Your Average Number of Work Hours/Week?

    Hi everyone,

    Hope you're having a good, relaxing weekend! (Or, at the very least, a lucrative one!)

    I am beginning a new p/t internship in the next week but I still plan on dancing, too. My internship is a 2 day/week, 7 to 8 hours/day schedule so... nothing to complain about! I'm thinking I will dance three nights/week in addition to this (with each shift being approximately 9 to 10 hours long). So, ideally, I'll be working about 41 hours during the work week (no weekends!)

    Ok, if you're still with me after all that thank you and now to my questions!
    How many hours is your typical work week? (In "work", I'm including part-time jobs, full-time jobs, school, camming, etc.)

    I realize 41 hours isn't so crazy for people in the real world and I always worked three days/week while going to school full-time undergrad but it's been awhile and you know how our line of work is often more physically and emotionally demanding. How do you keep everything in balance without burning yourself out while at the same time sticking to your schedule?

    Thanks so much for your input and tips!

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    Default Re: What's Your Average Number of Work Hours/Week?

    I have 9 hours of class a week, about 4 hours of volunteer work a week, 4-8 hours in my "regular" job, and 5-10 stripping. I guess that gives me a 22-31 hour work week, but I also have schoolwork to do outside the classroom, so that adds some time but varies week by week. I think my schedule is pretty balanced in that my focus is clearly school, but everything else is pretty even. I take time to myself and some nights I won't go out so I can recharge and sleep instead, because I've got to take care of my body so I don't burn out and fall apart. Stripping is the easiest to cut back on, so if I ever start to feel like I'm doing too much, that's generally where I start cutting.

    41 hours a week is totally doable, especially since it's not all stripping. Just don't be afraid to cut back on stripping if you find it's too much. It can be difficult since the money tends to be better in the club, but your mental well-being must be taken care of, and I find that sometimes, just staying out of the club for a bit, is enough to get back on track. Good luck!

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    Default Re: What's Your Average Number of Work Hours/Week?

    What kind of work does your internship involve? If you're going to be on your feet a lot, working so much will be hard on your body. If you get to sit down for work, it might be a nice break from stripping!

    Your situation sounds doable. I only work about 20 hours a week; I'm done with school and dancing is my only job. Like the above poster said, you can always cut back on dancing, and in our line of work you can pretty much do whatever you want during your shift, so if you need to take it easy, you can.

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    Default Re: What's Your Average Number of Work Hours/Week?

    before I retired from live dancing, my schedule was minimum 5 nights a week ( or 4 nights actually dancing plus a travel day), minimum 3 weeks a month.

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    Default Re: What's Your Average Number of Work Hours/Week?

    Thanks, everyone! You make it seem very do-able by describing your own busy schedules and how you make it work!

    @SeaShell: Good point! My internship is a PR internship which means I'll be up and about working with people or sitting at my desk on the phone or computer about an even amount of time.

    I think the take-away from all of this is to keep in mind that when it's too much, it's too much and I need to take a break. Again, thank you for your input!

    Besides that, if anyone has any little tips/tricks for staying motivated and energetic in both my club work and internship, please feel free to share!!!

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    Default Re: What's Your Average Number of Work Hours/Week?

    I dance about 25 hours a week. I don't have another job, and I don't go to school.

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    Default Re: What's Your Average Number of Work Hours/Week?

    Quote Originally Posted by Nuclear Martini View Post

    Being in school, there is no freaking way I'll cut down on school for penis.
    Thanks for that... That was my laugh of the day!

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    Default Re: What's Your Average Number of Work Hours/Week?

    I work two six-hour shifts 5-6 days per week.

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    i'm in school full time and including travel time (since i do private parties in new england, the drive is usually less than an hour but sometimes its up to 4 hours ONE WAY to the party), i work about 40 hours a week. i have about 20 hours of class a week, 10-15 hours of homework/study time, and i work about 40 hours a week. so thats between 70-75 hours a week.

    needless to say, i'm always tired and stressed out. my boyfriend wonders why i don't fuck him every day. maybe because i also do all the chores too??

    hmmmm....

    but he works 40 hours a week, has a good salary and benefits, and pays all the bills... so i can't really complain. only thing i can complain about is being so tired and stressed out all the time, but i can either be stressed and make loads of money or relax and not make nearly as much. the money is worth the stress. it's not always going to be available to be made the next day so i'll take all the work i can get.

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    I currently work 2-3 nights at week at the club, and only about 5 hours a shift, so 10-15 hours a week dancing.
    I then work 3 days a week as a piercer, which comes to 25 hours a week there.
    I do my apprenticeship one day a week actually hands-on, and its a looong day, I leave the house around 9am and get back at midnight, so thats another 15 hours.
    I usually have a photoshoot, pin-up pageant or life modelling gig once a month for about 4-5 hours, so I'll just add one hour a week to that one.
    Then there is all of the drawing, research and practice excercises for my apprenticeship, which comes to about 2 hours a day, so another 15 a week. (this would be the equivalent of schoolwork for most people who are in school!)
    Finally, I do my qualifications for blood borne pathogens, and sterile processing qualifications for about 5 hours per week.
    Calculator out...70-75 hours per week.

    I know that this seems like a LOT (trust me, it seems like a lot to me too!! lol) but the way that I deal with it is combining stuff...

    When I am working at the shop, I will bring work with me - the 5 hours that I spend on work-related qualifications is actually while I am at work. When it is slow, I am typing away on my computer. I also am often doing some drawing, or setting up shoots while I am working at the shop.

    I split stuff like drawing out to 2 hours per day, and just fit it in around other things - so I'll get up an hour earlier, do an hour, and then do an hour in between working at the shop and working at the club.

    But the really big thing that I do is make sure that I get at least one FULL day off per week. Usually I get two off. I just work myself like crazy Wed - Sun (and sometimes Tuesdays) and Monday is my day off to laze around, do nothing, recover (occasionally sleep until 4:30pm...lol). And then I don't feel like I'm going too crazy. I'm also a totally anal planner - I have plans for my food, my work, my money...and I stick to them..otherwise I would be totally overwhelmed!
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    Default Re: What's Your Average Number of Work Hours/Week?

    I'm so jealous of you girls who work only 1 night a week. I'm a full time bio student and my club required that I work 3 nights a week so I finally left and I just cam now. I used to do 3-4 nights a week being a full time student but I was getting a GPA of 2.6 & 2.8 which I'm not too happy with so I'm going to see how this semester goes not dancing.

    I have 16 hours of in class time and who knows how much out of class time I spend studying. Probably 10 hours minimum.

    Right now I do roughly 2-3 nights on cam a week with my schedule. I guess that adds up to 35-45 hours a week.

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    Wow. Really, wow. I'm so glad I asked these questions b/s it reminds me that I'm not the only one out here making a life for myself- we're all doing it! (I forget sometimes b/c I don't socialize with the girls at my club so I'm not always reminded!)

    Thank you, again, to everyone who took time to read and comment on my questions. TRULY appreciated!

    For me, I think it will boil down to planning things out in detail (like, on paper) and combining tasks when possible to make tasks do-able. And remembering to take one day- or night- at a time.

    What we do isn't easy. It isn't for everyone. Most will not understand it. But those of us who do and make it work for us (versus the other way around), I'm so impressed and proud. What a wonderful group of people to count myself part of!

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    I work 5 nights a week, between 8 and 10 hours a night, so I'd say I average 45 hours a week. But its my only job and I don't study.

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