When I look at my join date here I have to chuckle...same month seven years ago I was contemplating becoming a stripper and came here to get as much information and knowledge as I could. I was so enthralled with the idea of doing something so subversive, especially because I was so nerdy, introverted, and shy (still am, actually). I started dancing at a little dive shortly after and the rest is history. Well, sort of. I danced for four years straight in various clubs in my state through college and graduated with a Bachelor's. After I finished school I began dancing 4-5 nights a week, since I had the great fortune of graduating right when the economy collapsed. I quickly burnt out and became incredibly depressed with the way my life was going, since I had worked so hard in school and couldn't reconcile having a degree and stripping being my "career" right out of college. I was never incredibly successful at dancing either; I had a hard time switching into my stripper persona and was too chatty about my real life to customers, often endearing me to them as a real person instead of a sex object to be paid for my company. The last six months before I quit I was mostly having $100 nights and was very bitter and not a happy stripper. I was happy to leave it all behind for a so-called "real job."
Flash forward two years later to now. I've been working "real" jobs long enough now to know that they don't pay shit and can be/are just as unfulfilling as stripping can be. I haven't been able to evolve into being a daytime schedule person since dancing (I am my most productive and alert from about 4 pm onwards), I don't like waiting for biweekly paychecks with 25% taken out for taxes, and I feel like I LIVE at my job, being there M-F, 8-5. It's wage slavery, indentured servitude, and I feel like it's destroying my soul even worse than dancing for a couple of bucks did. At least there was some creative element to dancing; working in an office is mind-numbing.
I've recently had some car problems that required repairs which cost way more than I could afford. I have some credit card debt. I'm still paying off the POS car. I have school bills, along with my regular monthly bills. $1,700 a month just isn't cutting it. So I've been flirting with the idea of going back to dancing. I never thought I would want to, but in the last month the idea has become IMMENSELY appealing. I spoke with my good friend who still dances and she states she makes 300-500 a night at this smaller club I worked at for three months back in the day, because it's just "the club" now in the area. If I could pull in that much just a few nights a month it would help me out enormously. I don't plan on quitting my job; I'd want to supplement my income with an extra grand and a half a month by dancing, which seems very do-able to me. As long as I can DO it.
I am older now and have a lot more insight about dancing than I did when I first began, and even from when I quit. I can look back and see a lot of what I did wrong in dancing and feel like I can remedy it now. I did a lot of sitting around waiting for custies to come to me, a lot of chit-chatting with other girls in the DR, a lot of looking, feeling, and acting bored when I should have been all hustle. I feel like I'd be a lot more goal-driven this time around and probably a lot happier since this wouldn't be my main source of income. I know what debts I need paid off and that's what I'll have in mind when I go into the club to work. I'm not there to make friends, I'm not there to stroke men's egos for free, I'm not there to talk about myself and bemoan the state of the world and my useless degree to customers. My worry is that I will still have a hard time morphing into my stripper persona again, which is what seemed to be my issue in the past. I'm worried I will be in my head too much again, overanalyzing, overthinking, psyching myself out of talking to customers, assuming no one has money and hiding in the DR. But if I BECOME my stripper persona, hopefully these hang-ups will not be an issue.
The TL; DR version---what do you do to get into "the stripper mindset," so to speak? Is it just like an automatic switch for you or do you have to work yourself into it? Is getting ready for work part of the transformation for you? Do you have a specific ritual for getting into character? I want to make being my stripper persona my job and staying in character is one of my challenges. I don't want to fall into my same old traps and insecurities.
My projected return date is 10/4. That will give me enough time to prepare mentally and to lose a few extra pounds.
Thanks for any advice/encouragement. It's good to be back (I hope!).![]()



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The girls were all pretty cordial and a couple even introduced themselves, which was nice, since I had planned on keeping to myself for the most part.
I have a feeling girls let custies get away with a lot there and I'm going to have to figure out how to keep my standards and make money. I'm sure there are threads here on that very subject. 
and he was surprised that I came back. And then he bought three dances. Sooo...yeah.

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