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    I am sorry I don't mean to be negative, but what is the point of being a stripper if the money isn't there. If you making so little that you have to extra's just to get by. I don't see the point. I know that some girls complain that they are only making 100-150 night. I used to make that waitressing and I didn't have to pay house fee. It just dosen't add up if make 150 have to pay 75 dollar house fee and have no benefits on top of that. Why do some girls do it. You really aren't going anywhere just living month to month. I am just a little confused?
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    For those earning little and staying with their job there are different reasons for different people, you can't answer for all. Maybe they cannot get another job and need whatever money they can get, maybe those are the only hours of work available to them. Who knows?

    A girls income should depend on her attitude and approach to work. If she's just there for the novelty and expecting the money to fall into her lap then she's not gonna get far. If she can't hustle at all then she won't get far either. You have to learn how to pull the ropes. I'm still learning myself. Being open to learn is how you earn and you are less likely to avoid a low income time after time.

    Noone should do extras as a means of making money in a club. If you can't dance then don't work in a strip club, find something else.

    I don't know why they would stick at it so long if its doing nothing for them. Maybe get them to question why they stay and see if they can make any improvements e.g. change clubs, apply a new approach to work. Stripping can be hit or miss. But if you sit around complaining all the time without any action, nothing will change.
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    People are motivated by a lot a different things besides just money.

    I saw on TV once a story about people that had won millions of dollars in the lottery. The kept on working their regular jobs! The people said, "well, I really like the people I work with, and after traveling all over Europe there wasn't much to do other than sit at home and watch soap operas". The point is that it wasn't just the money that motivated them to work.

    As for girls that are not making much money, I'm sure they have other motivations. Perhaps they see other girls making lots of money and think that if they stick it out the will too someday. Perhaps they like the sexy image it gives them. Perhaps they like the naughty image it gives them. As I mentioned in another thread, I've met a few girls that seemed only to be interested in finding a sugar daddy.

    I'm just like you Brenda, if the money wasn't there, I'd do something else. But who knows what motivates people, sometimes we don't even know ourselves.
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    Default Re: Whats the point?

    Brendalee, that is a key question given the changes in our industry lately. I agree that part of the reason may be that the girl has been involved at some point in a prostitution bust or drug bust or something else which has left her with a criminal record which prevents her from working at good paying straight jobs or in upscale clubs. It may also be that the area the dancer lives in has been so affected by the bad economy that earning $100 a night dancing is literally the best she can do (after all Walmart only pays $50 or so per day), and that she's somehow tied to that area and unable to pursue better prospects in other cities.

    But indeed this is a symptom of the changes taking place in our industry in many places. If a girl isn't a '9' or a '10', odds are she won't be hired by an upscale club with good earnings potential. If a girl is an '8' or lower, and has no choice but to work in lesser clubs, she's probably competing with other dancers who are willing to offer high contact and extras. If she's unwilling to provide the high contact and extras that other girls are, her earnings potential is going to suck.

    Eventually this will cause many girls who are unable to be hired by upscale clubs and who are unwilling to compete stroke for stroke in high contact clubs to leave the business, as lesser (neighborhood) clubs which provide dancers who are '8's or less but do not provide high contact and extras see their earnings decline to the point where the clubs close down. But in the meantime these neighborhood clubs and the dancers that work in them continue to go through the motions in the hopes that their economic conditions will improve.

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    I 100% agree it is all the person, but there is also an aspect of inertia and "liking the action". Inertia means people do not like change and someone doing something for 5-10 years may be used to it and not want to change. What you did yesterday is a good guide to what you are likely to do today.

    Then there is the lure of the "possibility" of the good times, kind of like a gambler not wanting to quit before they hit a hot streak. A once a month $600 night in an average of $100-150 may be enough. Old ballplayers hang around on the edges for a long time long after their prime.

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    Also you have to remember Brendalee that some females actually like giving out extras. They will seek a club in hopes that they can perform for a guy. Yes, it's more money, they have been busted before, and probably don't give a rats ass. They get some sexual activity, money for it, and "pretend" to be a dancer all at the same time.

    Some just like doing the "extras" gig.
    Easy enought to become a cocktail waitress in the same damn club or another like it, and probably make more money just serving!!!!!

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    Some people just like the flexibility of working whenever they feel like it. Sometimes I will take an entire week off of work or only go in once or twice a week because that is what I want to do. I like the flexibility. Money is great but flexibility and freedom are the most important things to me. I spent 16 years of my life working in offices 5 days a week 9 hours a day with only a two week vacation per year. I was so burned out by the time I hit my 30's. I just can't go back to living like that again. I want more out of my life than commuting for 2 hours a day and sitting in some cubicle for 45 hrs a week. That is no way to go through life. Choose your poison is the way I see it.
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    Default Re: Whats the point?

    My guess is if they could make better money elsewhere then they'd be there. Either that or they actually like their job.

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    Pssst...here's a secret. I always under report what I make. Sometimes a lot. The less I claim to have made the less I have to pay out. After all, no one knows those wadded up bills he kept slipping in my hand all night were $100's right?

    Anyway, $150 a night is really not that bad in many of the rural areas where work is hard to come by, even waiting tables.

    In urban areas like Vegas slow times are admittedly horrible. A new girl with no regs may have to dip into her own money to pay the house. But the good times more than make up for it.

    Then there are some girls who seem to come to work just to drink, party and play video poker. If they walk out with $35 a night they are lucky. It appears to them stripping is just a way to party for free. Personally, I can't afford to do that.

    Of course, some girls are still learning. The defining factor on who makes money is The Hustle. Selling dances is not an easy thing to learn to do. It may take some girls months.

    If a dancer has ONE regular customer who comes in and pays her bills every month, it makes all the other days worth it.
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