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    Default School and work was too much for me, yet another hiatus!

    I'm a cosmetology student. I enrolled 10 months ago yet only have 200 out of 1500 hours completed. When I got my own place close to school and work in May, all I was able to do was work; I hardly did anything with regards to school over the summer. After only a few months working, I took my first break from dancing (well, second, as I started very briefly in January but that was when I was still living with my parents so that was a no-go)

    So here I am feeling like I've wasted the year, especially in regards to school. I could have been completely finished by now. (the good news is that I've woken up and realized that I need to get this shit done with, but I'm still kicking my own ass for not doing shit with it for so long!)

    I need to be at school for 8 hours a day, every day if I want to finish within a reasonable time frame. This means definitely no day shifts, and night shifts make it hard because I have to be up and out 4 hours after I get home. I got burnt out fast doing this...

    Anyway.. I haven't worked in over a week and don't think I will strip again until I'm finished with school. I can't help but feel a little bit like I failed... so many of you ladies on here handle school and stripping. It's not meant to be right now for me though, as I've tried to make it work twice!

    P.S. I can make it the next few months on my savings... of course I don't want to burn through most of my money but I think that's how it's going to be
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    Default Re: School and work was too much for me, yet another hiatus!

    i looked into doing cosmetology, and then heard that i would be pretty much interning for free 40 hours a week for a year. how people can do that and work is beyond my understanding, so don't feel bad! could you may just do the weekends? or do you literally have to work EVERY day?

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    ^ That's kind of how it is though I never thought of it that way. Were told you would have to intern after you got your license or that the school was like interning? While I'm in school, I do study the book and practice on my own but I also have to work on customers for free (school keeps the $) though sometimes they tip.

    The only time I could have worked was on Saturday night but my club did not allow me to do Saturday nights. They eventually let me do a string of absolutely horrible Friday nights but it was so bad for so many weeks it wasn't worth it. Plus, I go to school on Saturday from 9-2 so that was also a problem.

    My managers were schedule nazis and did not seem to care that I was in school. They had me doing dayshifts for so long which is another reason that so many weeks went by that I would only make it to school for 10-15 hours.. for the week. It was unreasonable and it would take years to finish at that rate.

    I go to school Tuesday-Saturday. Sunday is a bit of a relaxed day for me- but I would only be able to do Sunday dayshift, and at my club that is a waste of time. On Mondays, I usually take extra classes that my teacher gives me credit for. And since Sundays are free now, I will be using them to do more hair-related things that get me hours. Even though I'm behind, I can finish in 7 months if I do 8 hrs 7X/week.

    Maybe it's nothing to be that upset about, but wrapping my mind around the fact that I'm going have to be the stereotypical 'broke student' is not easy lol!
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    Default Re: School and work was too much for me, yet another hiatus!

    I think it just depends, I wouldn't feel bad. I spent one semester doing stripping and school but my schedule was more flexible than yours, I could schedule my classes later in the day when I had to work the night before and only do early ones when I wasn't working the night before. Most of my time was spent doing reading, writing papers, studying for exams, etc so I could do that anytime, if it was a bad week I could do 20 hours of work over a day. I also had a great regular so I didn't work more than a few nights a week anyway. But I quit after one semester because my grades suffered, I was stressed and couldn't devote any time to interning to plump up my resume for grad school. I took out some loans and have to pay them back now, but it was worth it for me to graduate with a high GPA and a full resume. And now I can work whenever I want and not have to balance.

    It did suck being a broke student but whatever, it's not like you're gonna spend the rest of your life broke. And everyone else is broke too!

    I would think though about what's more important to you, I feel like I've read something from you saying you would rather be a stripper than do something with your cosmetology degree-- if that's the case then maybe put that degree on hold and focus on dancing. God knows the window for high earnings is small and maybe it's better to focus on making money dancing, if you really have no intention of doing anything with your degree anyway?

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    It sounds tough and I understand, I was in a very tough program before and if you can't find a club that doesn't allow you to work once MAYBE twice a week on the weekends, then it's going to be really hard if not impossible. I feel you about the hours, I used to work on Fridays and Saturdays only and no days before exam week. So I'd be awake until 4-5 AM on the weekends at the club, but then I'd need to be up at 5 AM to get ready for my internship on the following Monday, so my sleep schedule was really messed up.

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    Quote Originally Posted by KikiGem View Post
    Anyway.. I haven't worked in over a week and don't think I will strip again until I'm finished with school. I can't help but feel a little bit like I failed... so many of you ladies on here handle school and stripping. It's not meant to be right now for me though, as I've tried to make it work twice!
    ^^I can relate 100% to this. Don't let yourself feel bad, you haven't failed! I know that a lot of the ladies on here can handle school and work at the same time. Heck, I have friends in my classes who work 40 hours a week at a vanilla job and still manage to have time for school. But you know what? I'm taking a full science course load at one of the most difficult schools in the country, and science is definitely not my strong point at all. I need every spare moment I can get for studying! On the other hand, if I was taking foreign language classes or something, I would have wayyy more time to work because that kind of stuff comes easily to me. Everyone's situation is different. Maybe some other girls work in areas where the clubs are more lucrative, maybe they exaggerate how much they work, maybe their grades are not as good as yours, maybe they're totally burned out but they HAVE to work that much cuz they have bills to pay or don't have savings to fall back on, etc. etc. As long as you're doing the best that *you* can personally do, then you are succeeding!

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