So, I went in to a few auditions, got hired at one of the clubs. I haven't started yet, but from what I've seen I like the club. It seems clean (For LA) the girls seem friendly enough, and it was fairly busy the nights I was there.
Now I have a problem. I feel like at some point I will need to tell someone, and so I felt out my best friend about the matter, jokingly saying that I was thinking of stripping to pay for my tuition. She immediately got hostile, saying that that was "lovely" and I could just go ahead and ruin my life. I was sorta stunned, because this girl has been my friend for SIX YEARS. We've been through high school, and two years of college and are still super close! She lives back east now, but we talk every day. I don't know what I expected, but it wasn't that.
I then asked if she was joking, and said that I'd still be the same person if I were a dancer. She said that she'd never talk to me again if I did it.
...Wow.
I don't know if anyone else has gone through having people you think would be supportive turning out to completely be against it, but I'm sure I'm not alone. I just want to grab her by the shoulders and shake her. She's in Manhattan going to school there, and everything is paid for. Housing, food, tuition, transport. Via loans, financial aid, and her parents. She has no worries financially right now (when it comes time to pay back those loans, she might), and spends a lot of time out with friends, and partying. She considers working 15 hours and taking 12 units a rough week. Right now I'm working 50 hours a week taking 17 units, and struggling to make my rent and other bills, since my college doesn't have housing. I just feel like we're not on the same planet.
Since she's back east, and not an LA native either, it's not likely we'll interact in person more than once or twice a year. Part of me wants to just pretend I'm not dancing, but part of me says that having a best friend who cares more about what I do for a living than who I am, is bad news. If anyone has any advice, or just wants to vent, feel free.![]()




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