Congrats on your positive changes
Re: the club issues... if it's such a slow club that you NEED regulars to even make $100, I would probably just suck it up and work nights. Then add in 1 day shift on the same day each week, tell people that's the only day you're there, and make regulars for that day. After a couple months, you could add another day shift, gradually transitioning to days that way.
Confidence: come in as early as you can to get lower house fees, and then it won't be as much pressure to make your $ as if you came in at 10pm.
Personally I like to forget about house fees until I'm ready to go; so if I want to make $400, I go until I hit $400 and then I go "Ok that's mine, and now I need another $30 to pay out and go home." Serves many purposes, including taking off the horrible start-of-shift pressure, and lighting a fire under my butt to go quick-hustle another dude and get that $30, instead of dragging around as I am wont to do at the end of a shift.
With the cab fare worry, maybe you should take $20 out of each shift and set it aside as 'emergency money' in case you do have a bad shift and don't make back your cab fare.
I know how you feel with feeling 'too old for this shit', where you're just impatient and over the whole scene. I get that way when it's been slow and I'm really having to hustle constantly, when all the fun and easy money has stopped. Honestly I think it is because you're not making mad money right now, so it's like "I'm taking my top off and -insert all the negatives here- for $140? I'm over it". Once you start making ok money again you will probably feel differently.
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