So I live really far from my club. 45 minutes with no traffic, 1.5 hours with it... and there's so much traffic here that there is a running joke about rush hour starting at noon and ending at 11:59 am... so yeah, it's usually the latter amount of time.
I would make a lot more $$ if I could put in the same hours most other 'only job' dancers do... but I cannot bring myself to drive out there 4 days a week. Even 3 days feels taxing sometimes. I feel like I am driving so far and not staying long enough + paying the house fees (that increased $25 this year), so that it's not 'worth it' unless I stay longer. I feel this way regardless of how much $$ I walk out with, like I need to milk the drive/house fee as much as possible.
Right now I work 10 shifts a month at 5 hours a piece. I want to increase the length of them a bit; next month I am trying 6 hour shifts.
Problem: How do you keep from getting bored? This job is not exactly mentally stimulating a lot of the time... if I have a few interesting or bigger spending customers it's fine, but when it's all broke customers that have nothing to say, and that repetitive pattern of "2 songs of small talk --> 2-3 floor dances", I am usually starting to look at the clock and forcing myself to stay at about 2 hours in.
I have tried working a 'double' 8 hour shift and taking a dinner break halfway through, but I tend to get entirely out of work mode then. If I don't take a break though, I can feel my brain start to short circuit from boredom + drained energy (the boring customers are like energy vampires!)



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