The club has been slowish recently, it has been picking up a bit, but only to the point where I am grateful if I make my low/average. Ive been dancing 2 years, the first yr & 1/2 it all seemed like gravy, id usually have a pretty good time working and spent a good deal of it on traveling adventures. Now im in a serious long term relationship & really goal oriented (setting myself quotas & saving it all to buy a house) ive noticed that recently when I start calculating my earnings earlyish in the night I start getting pissed.
Im a natural extrovert in a tourist town, generally I feel confident & good as an entertainer. Recently though ive found myself sitting with guys for 10 minutes, them leading me on, us generally having a good time & getting into the groove- then they dont want a dance (or later!) & when I get up to move on & ask for a tip them throwing me $3! This hapened to me for like 3 hours last night, until I looked out in the club & realized id already talked to everyone! This makes me feel so pissed for myself (& other dancers) like were providing them all this entertainment for nothing! My problem is once I get pissed its hard to calm down & get back in the mode. I actually tried to sit with a cheap regular & drink a beer to unwinde, when I went ovet he said I had to make his friends horny first, fir a beer! Needless to say I went over & bought my own.
Clearly beer is not a good option. A few deep breaths only helped so much. So what do you all do in these moments of frustration?
(I threw in the backstory at the top cause I thought that might be related-is 2 years typical forburn out? Is it because ive started setting myself quotas? Should I not count my $ in the begininf of the night, or maybe just go in later when theyre drunk enough to actually spend?)
Generally-how do you cope with frustration while you are at work, and how do you spring back from it?



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