My mind is going a million directions at once so please bear with me.
I've been contemplating dancing for a while now. I've been a cam girl for the last 2 years and have done a few other adult gigs in the past but I've never been a stripper in the traditional sense. I do very well on cam (well, I did---I haven't cammed in a few months mostly cuz I've been burned out--the hardest part of camming for me is how isolated I feel working at home by myself all day) so even though my main reason for dancing would be to get out of the house a few nights a week, I would still want it to be financially worth it if I'm going to drive all the way to a club. Not to sound bitchy, but I could make $20/hour bar tending (with tips) in a regular restaurant bar and not have to stumble around in 6+inch heels for 8 hours.
I'm a curvy/thicker girl and I'm 28 (so, old in stripper years). I don't have any illusions of getting hired at a high end club. But I still think that if I found a club that was the right fit, I could make good money. When I was at the top of my game camming, I was usually one of the first 5 models on the homepage. I know camming is different from stripping but is it really THAT different?
I've read a couple threads about dive clubs and I've actually thought that they sounded kinda fun and maybe the perfect place to start out. A girl I know recently started working at this lingerie biker bar nearby (air dances only, no private dances and you have to wear 2 pairs of panties and pasties, urgh!) and she's been really pushing me to come in for an audition (well, most girls don't actually go through an audition there.) The money sounds pretty shit though but I don't know what's to be expected. One girl who's been there for almost a month made $80 on Saturday night and seemed pretty content with that---that's for an 8 hour shift too. Is this just going to be a total waste of time? Is this my only option because I'm not skinny or jailbait?
I'm in Chicago. Anyone have any suggestions on other places to check out?
Another question I have I guess is about "the lifestyle." That seems to be my husband's biggest objection to me stripping. He doesn't care about me grinding naked on some dude for money, I think he's more worried about me suddenly turning into some coked-out party girl. Any job where you make fast cash, work late nights and have a flexible schedule is going to attract a certain type of person. There were plenty of drugs and after-hours parties going on when I bar tended. I managed not to get dragged into it then. Is it really that hard to not get sucked into this "lifestyle" that I hear so many people referring to when they talk about strippers?
Congrats if you read all of that. Geez. Just read the 1st and last sentence of each paragraph for the overall idea.



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