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    Default whats the longest break you've taken from burn out?

    For the past couple months or so I've been working very sporadically at the club. The excitement that I used to get doing my hair/makeup knowing I was about to make some money slowly died off and I eventually began to HATE going to work. I've been taking a break now for the past while and it feels great. For the first few weeks I was beating myself up for not working knowing that other girls out there are hustling non stop but then I eventually realized I needed to take a break for my mental health.
    What is the longest break you've taken from the club and why?

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    Three years. Thought I was retiring for good but I guess the world is plug out of luck in that regard..... LOL. Now I dance on and off.

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    Default Re: whats the longest break you've taken from burn out?

    Yeah, several years, LOL...usually to focus on other work as well as feeling burned out.

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    Default Re: whats the longest break you've taken from burn out?

    I just took a five month break after working in NYC for a year. I think I'll be ok to get back into the groove of things after having just traveled to dance for a regional event, but for a while I thought I was done-done, as in never wanting to have anything to do with dancing or the strip club scene again. Having a strip club allow customers to blatantly film me during a $20 dance on the main floor and then fire me for standing up for myself, constant threats of police by staff, mob-run clubs in bed with the cops, customers who won't take no for an answer bc they're paying close to 2k/hr if not more and of which the club takes up to 70%, mean staff, illegal labor practices such as false imprisonment and gender-biased bag searches, coke use/coked up customers and needing to deal with them in an enclosed space, and nyc dancers who are apparently desperate enough to cash in on their 100k/yr or whatever to stand up to this bull crap or otherwise move. The job is hard enough on its own, plus the isolation and stigma that comes with it, without clubs that act like pimps. I find that dancing works best for me on and off anyhow, so I'll see if I can handle it a bit longer. Trying to be positive and remember that there are plenty of good clubs, and that there are plenty of humane people working in the industry, not just police-sanctioned pimps as is the case in nyc.

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    Default Re: whats the longest break you've taken from burn out?

    Quote Originally Posted by SnuffleUffleGrass View Post
    Three years. Thought I was retiring for good but I guess the world is plug out of luck in that regard..... LOL. Now I dance on and off.
    Me too. I “retired” a few years ago. Un-retired this year.
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    Default Re: whats the longest break you've taken from burn out?

    6 weeks but not because of burn out, because of a long Euro trip I took. I try to stay ahead of burn out by taking trips often.

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    I took nearly 5 months off earlier in the year because of depression and laziness from the depression. Back in full swing now, though!
    "Rather have my feet hurting than my pockets."

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    Default Re: whats the longest break you've taken from burn out?

    1.5 years mostly while living in NYC and to work on other endeavors. It can be taxing how much time and energy dancing can take out of you, and how "hardened" you have to be to deal with it sometimes. But I do frequently take 2-5 week breaks too.. depends on what I am focusing on.

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    I’ve been on a break for a few months now and a 2 year hiatus before that. Pretty much from all sw right now. Men are irritating me and when that happens I can’t stay in character. Not fair to the customer when it’s my job to be “on”. I’ll probably go back sometime in 2019 but change clubs.

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    Still on one..


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