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    New York's governor just announced a ban on gatherings of over 10 people starting Friday night. It seems like the places I have been dancing the last few weeks will stop operating for a while. I have a vague idea of how I'm going to stay afloat – really trying to keep connections with clients and coworkers. I'm comfortable seeing clients OTC as long as I have met them IRL before – obviously this blurs the boundary between stripping and other work.

    The first time around, I tried to make onlyfans happen. I learned a lot, but it was definitely not my lane and I'm not trying to devote the same time and energy to it as I did back in May and June, especially since I'm in grad school full time. I'm down to do some zoom pole shows but other than that I'm not trying to spend too much energy on being an internet ho. I'm a little nervous but not as panicked as the first time around.

    What are y'alls plans?

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    Los Angeles still closed since March so I'm just like

    I'm sick of this. I want to get back to my normal day to day routine.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Seatortuga View Post
    Los Angeles still closed since March so I'm just like

    I'm sick of this. I want to get back to my normal day to day routine.
    There are clubs open in Los Angeles shockingly. They seem to not be advertising it and not mentioning it. I know of 3 open. I totally get it though. We all need money and that 1 stimulus check was not enough.

    2 in inglewood and 1 in van nuys.

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    Just CHILL like I did in March hahahah.

    Walk around miles in the desert every day with my dog. We've got this.

    If there is another shut down ( like a whole month where my business doesn't have revenue ) I'm just going to take a personal loan and call it good.
    The end of the world only happens so often you know ? I'll pay it back haha.

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    Research for the future of places to travel dance. Beforehand I was going on a whim but now I’ll have specific reasons to travel and (hopefully) build a second source of income that *isn’t just dancing*. Won’t get into specifics but it’s some form of arbitrage.

    Also learning sql. Hard to be focused though when idk what I wanna do with it. I just like the wacky stuff that can be discovered with data analysis. But I assume there should be money in it for me?

    And focusing on improving my writing skills.

    So basically chill out, have fun, and keep working my crappy part-time vanilla job like I have been so I don’t become a total hermit.

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    Improve my body, step up my workout from home game so I feel sexy and confident when things get better. Try not to indulge too much in delicious holiday food lol! Hopefully we won’t be shutdown for too long but ya never know in 2020...
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    I’m thinking about going to Florida lol

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    I've been wondering how you ladies have managed to stay afloat. That $1200 check was a joke for most folks, especially for successful ICs who may not be reporting everything. I have a FT vanilla job, but if i didn't have that, the $1200 wouldn't have even covered my rent for a month, much less other expenses. Like, wtf are people doing to get by? Unemployment?

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    ^^right, that 1200 isn’t shit, I’ve been getting unemployment but since the additional $has expired I only get a little each week, like only enough to cover my car. Not rent, food, utilities... it really sucks!! I can’t believe they left us stuck like this and yes u already know a lot of people don’t claim all the $$ they really make so that haunts lol. My friend gets $50 a week unemployment, tf can u do w that??

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    Quote Originally Posted by charlie61 View Post
    I've been wondering how you ladies have managed to stay afloat. That $1200 check was a joke for most folks, especially for successful ICs who may not be reporting everything. I have a FT vanilla job, but if i didn't have that, the $1200 wouldn't have even covered my rent for a month, much less other expenses. Like, wtf are people doing to get by? Unemployment?
    Exactly lol, unemployment. I had savings before & then hoarded most of the unemployment $$ while we had the $600 weekly extra. Now my state's pittance covers about half of my bills.

    Side thoughts: The one day I did venture into the club last month, one of the girls was working the door and got really nosy about where I'd been. I straight up told her I had been chilling on unemployment and she looked at me like "Ew". It was super weird. Like, she thought she was better than me because she was working the door for $12/hour instead of collecting on what is literally insurance?

    I feel like the majority of girls at my club didn't sign up for PUA and that's why they were all chomping at the bit to re-open in May. I don't know if they were literally not filing any taxes or if it was some kind of pride thing
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    Quote Originally Posted by juliette_ View Post
    New York's governor just announced a ban on gatherings of over 10 people starting Friday night. It seems like the places I have been dancing the last few weeks will stop operating for a while. I have a vague idea of how I'm going to stay afloat – really trying to keep connections with clients and coworkers. I'm comfortable seeing clients OTC as long as I have met them IRL before – obviously this blurs the boundary between stripping and other work.

    The first time around, I tried to make onlyfans happen. I learned a lot, but it was definitely not my lane and I'm not trying to devote the same time and energy to it as I did back in May and June, especially since I'm in grad school full time. I'm down to do some zoom pole shows but other than that I'm not trying to spend too much energy on being an internet ho. I'm a little nervous but not as panicked as the first time around.

    What are y'alls plans?
    That's indoor residences. For clubs, they just have to close by ten I believe, which won't affect the clubs as much that have day shift, I think???
    I did that in the beginning but without actively replacing your customers in the club, the ones you do have get burned out and get sick of us. It's ok for a bit but you really need a steady inventory of customers to make this work longterm.
    I FEEL you, online is NOT easy but it's safe. OF for me, was a wash. i do better on indie cam sites. I mean I make maybe 10-20% in a day what I make in the club but it's still really good money.
    I'm staying out of the country as long as I can in a cheap country and camming.

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    Our local clubs will probably end up shutting down. I was actually thinking of going back soon too.

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    I would’ve actually been fine still off that 600s in unemployment but I had to pay off a large credit card bill I only allowed it to be that high cause I was working and would be able to pay that off no problem had we not been shut down. I still would’ve been working as long as there was $$ I didn’t think we would ever get shut down I figured this was going to be like a swine flu kind of a thing where we knew there was a disease and to be careful but not shut down... wtf never saw that so I was in no way prepared

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    Quote Originally Posted by charlie61 View Post
    I've been wondering how you ladies have managed to stay afloat. That $1200 check was a joke for most folks, especially for successful ICs who may not be reporting everything. I have a FT vanilla job, but if i didn't have that, the $1200 wouldn't have even covered my rent for a month, much less other expenses. Like, wtf are people doing to get by? Unemployment?
    Well if they put money in their bank & dont report all of it wouldnt they get caught for not reporting all of it?
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    Quote Originally Posted by charlie61 View Post
    I've been wondering how you ladies have managed to stay afloat. That $1200 check was a joke for most folks, especially for successful ICs who may not be reporting everything. I have a FT vanilla job, but if i didn't have that, the $1200 wouldn't have even covered my rent for a month, much less other expenses. Like, wtf are people doing to get by? Unemployment?
    Most people I know are on unemployment but they are also not able to get evicted so that is a safety net too

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    ^^well not everyone is exempt from eviction which is BS, my city has been given funding to pay up to 3 months rent however I am qualified was contacted told I would get a packet in mail to prove I lost income due to COVID and never received it and cannot get in touch with anyone about it,which is BS. Unemployment doesn’t even cover my rent

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    Quote Originally Posted by ava$ View Post
    ^^well not everyone is exempt from eviction which is BS, my city has been given funding to pay up to 3 months rent however I am qualified was contacted told I would get a packet in mail to prove I lost income due to COVID and never received it and cannot get in touch with anyone about it,which is BS. Unemployment doesn’t even cover my rent
    Yea I'm sorry girl. I know it's probably different by state

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    My plan though is to just try & live somewhere cheaply & work as much as I can. Only treat myself once a week & try to find a place to rent where i can freakin cook at home bc I'm sooo over eating out. Hopefully with the new vaccines coing out by nxt year we won't be in dire straits like most of us were this year.
    I think it's bullshit how they've treated us in terms of not giving us enough to live on & make sure we aren't on the streets.
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    I've been delivering groceries. Wish they'd reinstate a stimulus because I just want to stay at home and finish writing my book.
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    And I'm over here like "fuck you, pay me". No non sense, sorry.

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    Quote Originally Posted by indiegirl View Post
    There are clubs open in Los Angeles shockingly. They seem to not be advertising it and not mentioning it. I know of 3 open. I totally get it though. We all need money and that 1 stimulus check was not enough.

    2 in inglewood and 1 in van nuys.
    which is the one in VN?
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    Shake my ass on OnlyFans, get back on camming consistently and phone seccs of course. Ask my ex for some money lol.


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    Get my ass eaten by my hot 24 year old boyfriend
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    During the first wave shutdown, I lived in my camper in the woods and teleworked my day job. Eventually I stayed in a friend's spare room when my cosmentic surgeries (covered by ins for trans) were scheduled again. I did very well camming and maintained an OF using screenshots from that as well as making facemasks that sold for $60-75 each. I definitely cleared 6 figures. I made too much last year and didn't get the entire $1200 stimulus, more like $500 which almost paid a bill that month.

    My plan for the next shutdown. Ok so I bought a small newly renovated house with cash and managed to get an early retirement from my engineering day job. I plan to settle into my new place and continue camming/OF while collecting my pension and making custom respirators to put some cash back in the bank. Yes I know I'm in the minority on all these points lol.

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    If there is a second shutdown they would have to extend unemployment benefits again, which end 12/26. I would also assume another stimulus boost added to that ( it the 1200 checks but a boost to unemployment.) Supposedly there is still a chance that could happen but I haven’t heard much about it lately.
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    ^^Right, it seems like nobody cares now after the election there not even taking it seriously but like meanwhile were all effed, all over the US, thats BS!

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