Okay so, I started dancing March 22nd. The club I was at was a club that was under new management and on the rise. I danced there March until the end of June. It was a decent club. It was my first club, but IG made it seem like it was weak. I have never made $300 in one day at this club. The most I've made is probably like $250. Granted, I was on day shift. I figured $200 in one shift for day shift was pretty good. Problem was I had more $100 days than $200. I could deal with $100 days, but then more days than the $100/$200 days were days when I made $0. I only danced 3 days a week and sometime two, if I'm lucky, I would leave out of the club with $100 each day and that third day I wouldn't make anything. Some weeks it was one day out of the week I would make $100 and the other two days I would make nothing. That was strike one with this club.
I was starting to feel like I was paying just to be there! I would arrive at 11:30 a.m. because stage fee was free if you were on the floor by 12:00 p.m. and then the only thing left to pay was tip out to the house mom and DJ. Which was only like $20, but stil Some days customers would roll in at 1:00 p.m. and most days they didn't start rolling in until after 3:00 p.m. Dancers would often complain about how dead it was in the club and threaten to go to another club and management, the bouncer, and the DJ would often blame the dancers for the dead-ness. They would tell us it's our job to promote the club, we don't know how to hustle, we'd be screwed if a night shift girl worked with is because she'd take all our customers because we don't know how to hustle, and some girls on our shift can't dance .. BLAH BLAH BLAH .. That was strike too. Like aren't we a team, why aren't you motivating us, because majority of the girls on day shift, we were new to the industry, we don't know how to sell a fantasy, we don't know how to converse with strangers we aren't really interested in and flirt with them, like what do you say, what do you ask, we didn't know. I just always got bad vibes. Strike two
The last thing that pissed me off about this club was the pettiness of the girls. It was this one chic there, she got under my skin and really sealed the deal for me. She was just so messy. It was like she was tryna be head chic in charge of all the girls at the club and all the other girls were letting her. This is not mean girls, this is not high school, girls shouldn't jump when you say jump or get your approval for anything. Crazy thing is this girl is only 20 years old. She just erked my nerves. She would very often, and I know because I would just get that vibe, talk about me to the other dancers and the housemom. Negatively talk about me and because she had the type of power she had they would talk negatively about me too. I admit I was too friendly, I did talk WAY too much in the locker room. So I guess that thats my fault. But still how unprofessional of them!
I read thoroughly and faithfully the post on this site about not getting too involved with girls you work with because they are not your friends, don't spend too much time in the locker room, etc. I applied this well my first month of dancing, but then I started to fall far from it. I have this "I want all my girls to win" mentality about myself. So I was constantly putting them on game on how I hustle and tips to make them feel better. I was the ONLY girl on day shift who knew tricks. I spent a ton of money learning pole tricks at a pole studio which I think was a great investment. Girls questioned how new I was because I already knew how to perform and I was scared about it. So during down time girls would come up to me and ask me to teach them things, which was no problem, but I started to feel like I was being used. These girls barely talked to me but were quick to ask me to help them with something.
So because of this I left and never returned. Its been a month and some weeks now. I'm thinking of going back. What do you guys think? Am I just bugging? Should I just go back and give it a try knowing what I know now. I was thinking of going at 3:00 p.m. and getting off at like 12:00 a.m. every night so I can get a taste of night shift. I would be less friendly and be in the locker room WAY less. What do you think? It wasn't an AWFUL club, but it wasn't what I hoped it was be either.. am I tripping on that too? is making $100-$200/day the norm? Is leaving with no money the norm? Do you think they'd accept me? Or should I just leave and have a fresh start at a new club?
I dance in Atlanta and to dance at a club is $270 (use to be $370, but it went down recently). I paid $370 to dance at this club, I made that $370 back already from dancing there so if I leave I won't feel bad. But in order to leave and go to another club you must either pay the $270 again to go to another club or go to your current club and get your license back from them, take it to the permit office, and get it changed for $50 to add another club to your license. I'd rather just go to my current club and leave for good. But I feel like I'm just being weak and over dramatic. But I could really use a fresh start.



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I need a change but I can't find that prefect club. I hope it works out for you!

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