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    Default Anyone take off from dancing this summer? What are you doing?

    Not sure if this belongs here, but curious if anyone else took off from dancing this summer. I usually take off in summer since it gets slow in my area, but mostly bored with dancing right now. And its too hot . I'm working more hours at a vanilla job instead, going outside with the longer sunlight hours, started shopping, doing some summer reading.

    Is anyone doing anything fun? Working a vanilla job? Vacation? Camming? Taking some kind of classes?

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    Default Re: Anyone take off from dancing this summer? What are you doing?

    I haven't taken off but I did rearrange my schedule to where I have 3-4 days off in a row... so it feels like I work much less.

    I started volunteering at a dog rescue once a week, and making a point to take my own dogs on longer walks more (it's hard in the summer when I work nights, that's the only cool time to take them out).
    I also took up painting. I'm pleasantly surprised with my skill level actually... I am horrendous at drawing but paint seems more forgiving/correctable when it comes to mistakes.
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    I'm barely dancing. I've been working more at my day job and really focusing on cleaning up my appearance by cooking a lot. Also reading like crazy, things that are helping me to deal with grief over losing my parents and over the shootings here. A lot of people I know were deeply affected and I still can't talk about it without tearing up. And my recent depressive episode was so severe that I've been reading a lot about other people living with bipolar disorder. It helps me feel less alone and helps me plan for the inevitable future episodes that come with the disease. I've also been reading about writing because I feel that it would be somewhat cathartic and might also help others. And finally I've been spending more time on my relationship.

    Jesus, that sounds so sad.

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    Default Re: Anyone take off from dancing this summer? What are you doing?

    I am barely working as an entertainer. I am working on a vanilla-ish job, doing summer classes, and reading about /getting my financial life in order. If anyone is interested, the book is called Rich Bitch. August I will only be working the first week and then I will be with my family on our family vacation.

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    Default Re: Anyone take off from dancing this summer? What are you doing?

    I have that book! ^ I haven't finished it though. I like the total money makeover by Dave Ramsey too.

    I also am not taking the summer off but with how slow my club is it almost feels like I am lol. When football season starts and the club picks back up I'll probably feel like I'm more in work mode.

    oh and I'm really milking the fact that I'm not in school. Just doing whatever I feel like.. Sleeping, working out, cooking good food, going out if I feel like it. I apply to grad schools this November and will start getting hours again so I'll be a lot busier once summer ends.

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    Default Re: Anyone take off from dancing this summer? What are you doing?

    Yes I've taken off and haven't danced in months. Living a double life was wearing on me and I couldn't go anywhere in public or date without feeling paranoid. Kind of stressful cause the club scene here is not bank rolling like other cities and I didn't get a chance to save or invest much. I do have a part time thing but it will be good when it's producing full time income so I won't have to worry as much and be so thrifty all the time.

    I do miss the club. I miss making quick cash and having men be in awe of me and be attracted to me. I know it's part of the fantasy but I still love it when I'm on stage and the guys will get up out their seats to give me their money.

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    Default Re: Anyone take off from dancing this summer? What are you doing?

    I've taken Dec-now off. I was dancing while building up a business and I'm finding it impossible to generate the growth without the dancing money I was used to as capital. There simply isn't enough time in the day to work to pay the bills, and work on developing a business while searching for funding and grants.

    Advice to my younger self when I first started: "keep dancing regularly, treat it like a regular job and only take 2-4 week vacations a year, the first thing you need to save for is 6 months of emergency living expenses (not a vacation, or school, that can come after those 6 months are covered), buy extra health/dental and life insurance, budget wisely and invest ALL of your money outside of what is in your budget for rent, food, clothes etc..., write down everything you make and spend, keep dancing until your business is making you the same or more money as you were making dancing."

    However, one good thing I've learned from all this is to not tell anyone about my long-term goals because talking about plans while working as a dancer just makes people look at us weird - women are judgmental and men think we're dolls with no emotions. Also - only keep friends in your life who value you for who you are, not for where you've been, what you have, or where you're going.

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    Reading, doing extended research on the industry, trying to generate more income to start my vanilla business ideas
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    Default Re: Anyone take off from dancing this summer? What are you doing?

    I took the summer off to finish a class for my major. Summers are pretty slow here anyway. It's starting to pick up so I went back to dancing.


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    Default Re: Anyone take off from dancing this summer? What are you doing?

    Since I just recently got hired at a strip club, I am working there, but yet I am working as a server as well. Shockingly enough, some nights I come with more money in my pocket as a server than as a dancer.

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    Default Re: Anyone take off from dancing this summer? What are you doing?

    I started my break June 29, it's been almost two months since I've danced. I have a vanilla job, it's part-time. I've been doing that and I started my Junior year of college last Wednesday. I want to start back dancing in September, but I have so much traveling planned in September. If I go back to dancing, I would have to cut my hours at my vanilla job, which I currently work 20-30 hours a week, and I don't feel like taking that gamble with dancing knowing I have bills to pay. In the world of dancing money is never guaranteed, but at my vanilla job, that's for sure guaranteed. So I guess I'll start back in October.
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