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    In my business, which is insurance sales, the rule of thumb is that 4 of every 5 new agents will no longer be in the business after 5 years. What would be the similar statistic for dancers? I guess the experience I have is that if you like a dancer, you should go see her often because there is no guarantee she will be in the business for long. Roughly what percent of dancers who start are still stripping after five years?

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    I've seen stats years ago that 80% of dancers get out within 6 months. I believe it myself because in the years I was dancing fulltime, then dancing part time for years (and still do from time to time)I've seen countless dancers come and go. I'm not surprised because any dancer will see it's a hard job. So many dancers who get into it think it's easy, that every night you'll make hundreds with no problem. In reality only the great hustlers will survive. If you are timid in any respect you will be destroyed by the industry.

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    i agree with Kellydancer. I've been in the business almost 7 years now, and there are only about 8 out of 50 or more dancers in my home club that have actually stuck around for the long run.
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    It seems different here. Of the girls who started the same time as me, 2 of us continued full-time, 2 took a break to go travelling with the money they made, but have now returned, and one quit to have a baby. Which means now 4/5 of us are still dancing.

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    Default Re: Longevity in the business

    I dance sporadically (I hadn't danced for more than four months in a row in this first year of dancing), but every time I'm dancing, I put all my effort and dedication; after all this is a job, and should be treated as such.

    After I'm completely out of the military, I'll dance 100% of the time if I still look as good as now. If not, I do what I have to do to regain my good looks, and do it until my body starts to fall apart.

    Also, I have the other vanilla jobs as backups in case I suffer an injury, or something like that.





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    From what I've seen, when a girl isn't cut out to be in this business she usually recognizes it pretty quick and quits...or, she self-medicates with various substances so she can tolerate the work atmosphere, and then she'll start a serious downward spiral that will eventually make her quit out of necessity (or get fired). With the former type, they're usually gone within a few weeks, a month max. With the latter, the downward spiral can drag on for years. I've worked with girls like that who were five or six year veterans at the same club, and had to be high or drunk as fuck to get through the night. Every night. They couldn't work sober.

    Plus, the specific club makes a HUGE difference. I'm friends with a girl that I started dancing with, and at the first club, she became very strange...she felt the need to cope with the work environment by playing mind games with the customers and self-medicating on occasion. It became about manipulation for her, and it seriously impacted her self-esteem and her sanity. She started having big problems with depression, and she attributed it just to stripping in general. But after maybe a year, she started working at a different club, and her experience radically changed. She no longer felt the need to cope with the work environment, and she gained a healthy mindset about stripping. She's still at that same club some three years later, and she loves it. So, there are a couple of factors that contribute to a girl's experience with stripping. It's difficult to give an exact statistic on it.

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    Default Re: Longevity in the business

    In my experience, if you really enjoy a dancer, you'd better go back quick. If you wait a month or so, she will be gone.

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    Default Re: Longevity in the business

    Quote Originally Posted by inawe View Post
    I guess the experience I have is that if you like a dancer, you should go see her often because there is no guarantee she will be in the business for long. Roughly what percent of dancers who start are still stripping after five years?
    Well, I can't give you percentages because they don't exist anywhere but I can speak for my own experiences. I have met gals over the years who came and went in a matter of months but I have also known many dancers who danced or still dance for many years. An old fave of mine that is the same age as me retired about two years ago-she was 52 at the time. I first met her in a long-since defunct club just outside of Boston back in the mid 80's. She was still working five days a week when she retired, owned two homes and a farm back in Brazil. She put a daughter through law school and that's when she decided to retire and go live on the farm.

    That's an extreme example but I have a fav who is still dancing after 19 years, at least 3 who have been at it for about 15 years and a couple that have been dancing for going on 7 years. In addition to these gals I see women in every club that I'm a regular at that, while I don't know them well, I have seen them around the clubs for at least ten years or more.

    Most of my favs will tell you that they never planned on dancing this long. They all talk about stopping someday but the exit strategy is pretty open-ended. Many of them have college degrees but the money and the freedom in dancing are hard to walk away from for a 9 to 5 gig. The common thread among the ladies who last this long, at least in my experience, is the fact that they treat dancing as a job, not a lark, not simply a way to make a few bucks on the way to doing something else.
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    Default Re: Longevity in the business

    One factor that muddies the water a bit is that customers (and even dancers) are only aware of a dancer leaving a specific club only, but not dancing as they may have moved on to a different club. Regardless, there is little doubt that stripping is a high turnover career.

    To provide some rough "real world" figures: At one club webcam site I've been to with ~ 200 dancers/camgirls, as best I can tell, over half have worked at club < 1 year. I recognized 3 who have been at club over 10 years ( 1 who still looks very hot), 6 who have been there 5-10 years, and ~ 30 who have been there 1-5 years (mostly 1-2). Probably 1/4 of the camgirls listed have left, just haven't bothered taking pictures down.

    I've known of some dancers at club who came from other clubs in town, and also former subject club dancers who migrated to other clubs. I suspect that OP's 5 year burnout rate isn't too far out of line for dancers.
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    Default Re: Longevity in the business

    the rule of thumb is that 4 of every 5 new agents will no longer be in the business after 5 years.
    Remind me not to work in insurance sales.

    I don't know about statistics but I know plenty of dancers that have been working 5 to 10 years.




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    I sell insurance too! Yeah, it depends on what type you sell though..... I think this rule of thumb applies to any straight commission job though.....
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