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    Default How do you prevent a stripper burn out?

    My summer break started a month ago, so I thought that since I have all this time on my hands why don't I try and work 4-5 days a week. So I did. At first money was good, I was happy and satisfied, but now just one month into it, I feel that getting dances is like pulling teeth for me, I cried couple times in the dressing room and am making less. Is this a burn out? Does anyone on here work 4-5 days a week? How do you prevent a burn out/get out of it?

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    Default Re: How do you prevent a stripper burn out?

    I used to travel when I worked a lot of hours. One week, 6 days at a single club then it was on to the next. The excitement of seeing new places kept burn out at bay. I would have to take about a week off out of every month, as I was pretty tired by then.

    Aside from that, make sure you are eating healthy, not drinking too much, and getting plenty of sleep. Built up stress of too much work and not enough rest will bring on burn out very quickly. Spend some time outside in the daylight every day. Turn off electronics when you are sleeping. Take a walk through a park or green space every day, even if it is just for a few minutes. Practice yoga or meditation to calm your mind.

    When you feel yourself feeling sad at work, figure out a way to switch you goal to something not money related. Maybe the goal can be learning how to do your hair or makeup in a new way, maybe it's learning how to execute a new and difficult pole move. Sometimes you just have to say fuck it, give up even trying to make any money and just hang out with friendly but non paying customers because you enjoy their company.

    You already recognize that you need self care. Now you have to act on that feeling to get yourself back to a place of calm. I know this is going to sound all new agey and stuff, but try to be present in the moment. The past is over, the future hasn't happened yet. All you have is right now. Close your eyes and let the moment fill you through sound and smell and sensation. Pay attention to your breath in those moments. Count 10 slow breaths in and 10 slow breaths out. This works for soldiers with PTSD, and it works for over stressed strippers.

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    Lightbulb Re: How do you prevent a stripper burn out?

    Here are tips and ideas:

    • Reduce work days
    • Swap work days
    • Try different shifts
    • Stagger your days (one day off, one day on... this can literally go on forever...)
    • If you work a string of days, treat yourself to a massage/facial on your day off
    • Work shortened shifts if you're doing a 5 day schedule... meaning you don't stay on from open-to-close, leave early or come in later when things are already busy
    • Take your vitamins
    • Eat healthy fresh stuff
    • Stay well hydrated
    • Have fun when you're not working... take a day trip, have a late brunch with friends, go outside and feel the air, see a sunset
    • Buy a few new work outfits/shoes... I get excited to try out new stuff at the club... it makes work a bit more fun
    • You can always try a new club for a while



    Happiness is attractive. Desperation, frustration, and exhaustion are painfully obvious to customers. I suggest you take some time off and return to work refreshed. Then switch a few things up to kill the drudgery.

    The 4-5 day schedule is tough. Accept that it's better to work less and enjoy work more... quality vs. quantity. You'll find the best rhythm for you.
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    Default Re: How do you prevent a stripper burn out?

    Thank you ladies so much!! I'll definitely try these!!! I already took two days off this week. I just might take a third one if I don't feel like going in tomorrow. I've always worked 2-3 days a week, banked and felt like this was the best job in the world so I guess I need a switch back to my old schedule

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    Default Re: How do you prevent a stripper burn out?

    Quote Originally Posted by Tourdefranzia View Post
    I used to travel when I worked a lot of hours. One week, 6 days at a single club then it was on to the next. The excitement of seeing new places kept burn out at bay. I would have to take about a week off out of every month, as I was pretty tired by then.
    Yep, at one point while full time dancing I worked at 2-3 different clubs in a given week. The change of scenery and feeling 'new' was always exciting and it kept me going.

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    Default Re: How do you prevent a stripper burn out?

    Yep! You're burnt out, girl. This happened to me last summer. I was so excited to finally have time to just work and not be distracted by school. Yet, like you, a month into summer I was hating life. Too much time in the club can make you claustrophobic, and you need to find a way to diffuse those feelings.

    For your off days, join a book club, a yoga group, or take up volunteer work. Do not sit around the house thinking about your aching hamstrings. Make fun earning goals with immediate spending rewards, like:

    - Work two days in one week, use the money to go on a day trip for shopping, beauty treatments, and a lovely dinner with non-work friends
    - Work three days in one week, use the money to buy furniture and cool shit to fix up wherever you live
    - Work four days in one week, use the money to go to the beach or the countryside for a week-long getaway

    And so on. This gives you something to work towards and look forward to.

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    Default Re: How do you prevent a stripper burn out?

    Don't make the club your home. I work 3 weeks out of the month. The week I get my period, I take that whole week off. I get very crampy, fatigue, & moody.

    Ignore my surroundings with ppl who work there(esp politics).

    I rather go home broke on a shit night, than to deal with a borderline rapist just to make something.

    Treat myself to a spa once in a while. Relax. Meditate.

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    Default Re: How do you prevent a stripper burn out?

    If you don't have kids or an addiction to feed save your feast to get you through the famine. That's what I do. I work 3 different clubs now, 2 of them very sporadically.
    "Fake tits are like Kevlar. They don't guarantee your chances of survival but they sure as hell improve it."
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    Default Re: How do you prevent a stripper burn out?

    I work 4-6 days a week, and I try to throw some double shifts in there when I can. When I first started, I was a powerball. Then I got burnt out.

    What definitely helped was switching my clubs around. So instead of doing 6 days straight at one club, I would do 3 nights at one, 3 nights at another. Like others have said, the change of scenery definitely helps with burnout. Also it helped to alternate my days on and off. Or if I decided to work 6 days that week, I would take a break in the middle of the week.

    Also, try to eat a consitently. Working so much, it's easy to skip meals. I avoided the fried food in the club and if I didn't bring a lunch from home, I'd eat a salad or fish.

    Oh yea and one thing I noticed from working 6 days at one club to alternating between two clubs, is that it gave me a fresh face in both clubs because I wasn't there all the time. So customers were more inclined to spend money on me. Once they see you there all the time, they sort of take you for granted.

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    Default Re: How do you prevent a stripper burn out?

    I guess this might be a topic for another thread, but let me just ask you ladies this question here: how do you keep yourself motivated to go in the next day if two or three of your previous shifts were a drag? Say you did make money on those shifts, but you felt that it was extremely hard and felt like you were more of a $20 beggar than a sexy dancer?

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    Default Re: How do you prevent a stripper burn out?

    ^
    When it got to that point I'd either:
    -Take a break
    -Go to another club

    Or what I used to do was go in and get drunk lol. But since I can move more freely and don't drink at work very much anymore, I go somewhere else.

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    Default Re: How do you prevent a stripper burn out?

    When I have a shit night, I always go in the next night because my give-a-fuck is so broken at that point that I always bank. The point is not to go in for money, but to go in because you have nothing better to do/ you want to have fun/ relax.

    I made $20 one Saturday night, the next night, I went in and made $800...

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    Default Re: How do you prevent a stripper burn out?

    I totally second working on/off days.
    As good as it may feel to work 4-6 days, if you get burned out it'll kill your average money and that's not good. So it turns out to be more productive to work fewer days sometimes.
    "People jack off with the left hand and point with the right."

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    Default Re: How do you prevent a stripper burn out?

    I would work at 2-3 different clubs. I would always start to feel burned out when I stayed at only one club.
    Also try working different shifts.
    And sometimes you just need some time off. So try to always have a little nest egg just in case. It's happened to all of us.

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