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    Quote Originally Posted by DreamsInDigital View Post
    I can identify with a lot of stuff in this thread, especially this. I got burned out from dancing about a year ago and still haven't managed to recover. Wish there was a guide on how to get motivated and excited to get back into it....I guess I'm retired now, lol.
    Honestly, time is key. Years away from the biz if need be. I have a thread around here somewhere about chronic stripper burnout...

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    Work somewhere very close to your home so that whenever you're out running errands, you're practically guaranteed to bump into regulars! That constant feeling of looking over your shoulder will ensure you leave your home as little as possible, which will help you feel like a caged animal. Trust me, in no time at all, you'll dread even going out to get the mail!

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    Try to find a club where the clientele is 100% regulars who don't spend unless they have your email and phone number so they can be in constant contact. This will help you get to a point where you can't even use your phone without being filled with dread and loathing. Each club shift will be basically the same as the last, which insures soul-deep boredom. And you'll feel increasing pressure to keep your regulars interested, which will help you feel like you aren't good enough for even perverted, smelly old men.

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    Make sure to work on days you know are dead, because you have "nothing better to do" than sit in the club making $10/hour.
    "People jack off with the left hand and point with the right."

    "You can check out any time you like, but you can never leave."

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    ^Umm...yes. I could write a book on self-sabotage as related to my dancing career. Jesus. I'll be sure to add some gems of my own later.

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    hah. Quit your day job, and make stripping your ONLY means of income (while trying to adjust to full stripping v part time stripping) so you spend your shifts a big ball of stress trying to hit your goals.

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    Quote Originally Posted by charlie61 View Post
    Instead of relaxing on your nights off, use that time to ruminate over how much money you're "missing out on." Text your DJ / manager to ask if the club is busy. At the beginning of your next shift, ask half of the dancers in the club whether last night was good or not. Remember this feeling the next time you take a night off, and beat yourself up about it for days afterwards.
    ^^This in addition to the others are such hard habits for me...no wonder the thought of going to work lately has me feeling off. I had stripper burnout and didn't even realize it, I was beating myself up for not being in a super great mood every single shift. This thread has opened my eyes that it's not just me.

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    Read "My last shift" and beat yourself up seeing everyone else's huge money nights. Forget to consider the fact that you work in a $10 dance city (meaning their numbers must be cut in half to actually compare), AND that you work day shift because night shift fucks with your sleep/school schedule.

    Work at a club that requires use of the busiest freeway in the state. Be sure to leave for work around 3-5pm when rush hour traffic keeps you in the car for 2 hours, thus adding 3 hours to your work day and making going to work for a 4 hour shift literally an all day affair.
    "People jack off with the left hand and point with the right."

    "You can check out any time you like, but you can never leave."

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    Try to be your authentic self at work, in every way possible. Talk about topics that are very meaningful to you with your customers, and when they express their medieval, inane beliefs, argue passionately with them before remembering to ask them for a dance. Bring up anything that might be a turnoff for your customers. This way you'll challenge yourself continually to make any money (easy money is boring) and will constantly expose your vulnerable self to people who could not care less about you as a human being. If you aren't being your real self, you're a fucking poser, am i rite?!


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    -Let the club bully you into working six nights a week when you're in nursing school five days a week, so you can show up for clinicals hung over or still drunk.
    -Sleep with coworkers who don't quite look the same in lighting. Make sure you tell them this, too.
    -Take advice from customers.
    -Approach every Indian who comes in.
    -Give everyone who needs a ride home one whenever you can. Don't think for a second these extras girls can't afford cars-or a damn taxi-because of a drug habit. When you find their needles in the back seat, make sure to return them, they'll get mad if you dispose of the evidence.
    -While on the topic, spend all your money on drugs to feel cool.
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    Close contact, for an hour, for $40? And I guess I'll have to make conversation with them too?

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    Quote Originally Posted by SweetJulia View Post
    -Approach every Indian who comes in.
    Lmao!

    Be an introvert...while working 4-5 10-12 hr shifts a week with only a few hours of sleep.

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    -Approach every Indian who comes in.

    Also approach every Mexican. Actually, approach everyone who is not a white businessman type.
    "People jack off with the left hand and point with the right."

    "You can check out any time you like, but you can never leave."

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    Also approach every Mexican. Actually, approach everyone who is not a white businessman type.
    I make half of my money off of Mexicans because I'm a white girl who can speak Spanish.

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    Spend all of the money you make at work on more things for work. New outfit, new bag, new makeup. Repeat.

    Put on your best stripper counselor act and focus on the customers that are having emotional break downs.

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    Let the managers talk you into working day shifts and slowly begin to control your schedule until you're always on the slowest shifts. Work night shifts the nights before your 9am classes. Stop going out with your friends to bars or clubs because "You could just 'go out' at work and make money while you party." Become obsessed and addicted to money. Start planning expensive vacations and setting goals to buy a new car in cash within 5 weeks (for example.) Put as much pressure on yourself as possible to meet said goals. You don't need breaks, or fun, when there's money to be made.

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    When you're making new friends or dating, bring up your dancing job as quickly as possible. Not because you're a proud, independent woman. Do it because you're insecure and think that people won't like you unless you have dancing to talk about. You're only interesting and worth knowing if you're a stripper!

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    Quote Originally Posted by wednesday86 View Post
    Work night shifts the nights before your 9am classes. Stop going out with your friends to bars or clubs because "You could just 'go out' at work and make money while you party."
    Quote Originally Posted by charlie61 View Post
    When you're making new friends or dating, bring up your dancing job as quickly as possible. Not because you're a proud, independent woman. Do it because you're insecure and think that people won't like you unless you have dancing to talk about. You're only interesting and worth knowing if you're a stripper!
    Omg, this and this. Allll the time when I first started.
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    Quote Originally Posted by charlie61 View Post
    I'll start.

    If you want to burn out from stripping as quickly as possible, be sure to eliminate any non-stripping-related activities from your life to allow for maximum time spent in front of Netflix, thinking of nothing but your next shift.
    Omg this mixed with almost working every night for 2 weeks straight when I'm normally used to just working 3 shifts a week made me burn out really fast. I worked too much and did absolutely nothing except sit in my apartment alone for those 2 weeks that I ended up not working at all the next week. This wasn't a major burn out but it showed me exactly what NOT to do lol.

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    Convince yourself that your hustle is so strong that you can (and WILL!) sell dances to extras-seeking customers. Spend 15 minutes trying to close sales with them by using evasive, misleading language. Endure the most miserable lap dances ever while they try to lick you, grope you, grind on you, and push you around.

    Then convince yourself that your super hustle means you can sell $250 VIPs to everyone, even college students and blue collar dudes on slow nights. Don't even bother trying to get them to buy $20 dances -- those are for loser baby strippers. Fail to sell a single VIP or dance, and leave with $30 after a six hour shift. For maximum burnout, spend $10 of it at Taco Bell on the way home so you can eat up all your stress.

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    Hang out with lots of vanilla people doing lots of cool, interesting things and moving up in the world. Make sure to compare that to the fact that you're "just" a dancer. Forget about all the stuff you HAVE accomplished. It sounds lame when compared to the fact that they've done all that AND more. You may as well not even talk unless you're contributing some "court jester" fluff story about a drunk customer to make people laugh. That's clearly all you're good for in social situations.
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    Be afraid to leave your first club cuz cleaner clubs with hot as hell girls are too intimidating, even though your home club has been taken over by extras girls who got there just in time for the summer slump. Work seven days a week for a month to make ends meet before heading for greener pastures, where you'll proceed to make the highest average of your dancing career. Oh, and instead of being happy to have found a club where literally everything is different for the better-and you can finally wear boots, making your stage show so much better, you beat yourself up for not having the balls to do it sooner. Then, do the math on how many extra days you worked since the invasion of the extras girls.
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    Close contact, for an hour, for $40? And I guess I'll have to make conversation with them too?

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    Quote Originally Posted by Aurora_Sunset View Post
    Hang out with lots of vanilla people doing lots of cool, interesting things and moving up in the world. Make sure to compare that to the fact that you're "just" a dancer. Forget about all the stuff you HAVE accomplished. It sounds lame when compared to the fact that they've done all that AND more. You may as well not even talk unless you're contributing some "court jester" fluff story about a drunk customer to make people laugh. That's clearly all you're good for in social situations.
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    Quote Originally Posted by charlie61 View Post
    Try to find a club where the clientele is 100% regulars who don't spend unless they have your email and phone number so they can be in constant contact. This will help you get to a point where you can't even use your phone without being filled with dread and loathing. Each club shift will be basically the same as the last, which insures soul-deep boredom. And you'll feel increasing pressure to keep your regulars interested, which will help you feel like you aren't good enough for even perverted, smelly old men.
    THIS IS LITERALLY ME RIGHT NOW. I've been at my original club again for a few months and I feel so drained. I'm making decent money off regulars but it's like 90% of all my money is regulars. It's exhausting. Cue intense fucking burnout :/

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    Quote Originally Posted by Selina M View Post
    Read "My last shift" and beat yourself up seeing everyone else's huge money nights. Forget to consider the fact that you work in a $10 dance city (meaning their numbers must be cut in half to actually compare), AND that you work day shift because night shift fucks with your sleep/school schedule.

    Work at a club that requires use of the busiest freeway in the state. Be sure to leave for work around 3-5pm when rush hour traffic keeps you in the car for 2 hours, thus adding 3 hours to your work day and making going to work for a 4 hour shift literally an all day affair.
    I obsessively read my last shift and I usually feel like shit after. I really need to not read it.

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    Quote Originally Posted by charlie61 View Post
    In the name of saving up as much money as possible, sign a lease on a shitty, tiny, depressing apartment that fills you with dread every time you come home. Who needs quality of life?! All that matters is being able to retire by the time you're 50 (doesn't matter if you're a dried-up cynical raisin by then - you won't have to work anymore!). Your 20s, 30s, and 40s should be USED, not ENJOYED.
    This is sooo true! I'm so glad when I started dancing, my goals were just to live nicely, still have fun and start a savings account. Very simple goals. I achieved that and then beyond. So, I allowed myself, school, travel, non-stripping night club excursions, bountiful trips snowboarding...fun stuff. Lot's of restaurants when I worked/lived in San Francisco!!!! Lots of fun tasting all kinds of exotic food, participating in a contest to find a sucky restaurant in San Fran (but slowly gaining over 20 lbs doing it) but those lbs have been gone for a while!!


    But on a more serious note; you never know what the future will bring: economy changes, physical changes, accidents.....you never know. All that money you slaved away saving could be gone in a second. I've been there. I recently had to clear $26K out of my roth IRA (husband had an accident). Now I don't have enough to even start one. But I have some things that are paying small dividends and currently going through a paid certification program for a new job. So there is change, but some balance. And compromise: we can no longer afford our season passes to the biggest ski resort in the western US, I no longer get my yearly trips to the Sundance film fest in Park City, with snowboard perks, but I had them. And I enjoyed the hell out of them!!! But instead I get free gas gift cards, Sephora cards and Starbucks. Not as pricey, but a nice compromise.

    ( I know this is long), but save a little, make your plans, but please never forget to have some fun and release your stress while you have the $$, the energy and the health to do it.

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