Virtually everywhere I go and on most posts I read dancers are obsessed with $500 and $1000 nights. These girls look at dancing as "easy and quick" money instead of treating it as a career or a business. Girls tend to validate their worth based on higher nightly earnings than the next dancer.
In a traditional job income is measured by the week or month. A $1000 night is meaningless if a dancer only works several days a week or month.
To get ahead in this a dancer needs to work just as she would in an 8-5 office job, and take the good with the bad, to be more stable.
I had ONE $1000 day last year, 1 $800 day and about eight $500 days in an entire year. Yet out of working 250 days had lots more days under $100, between $100 and $200, and between $200 and $400.
An ambitious dancer must be patient. Too many dancers walk out of bokings because it is slow. Clubs will be up and down nowadays. You might make $100 for 3 days, $60 the next day and then hit $400 three days in a row. It is just like being a commissioned salesperson.
I have worked bookings with MANY girls who walk out of a club or who hav a good night and take of for 3-4 days. What good does that do for your wallet or bank account?
You must have a plan. Like saving 30% of what you make EVERY night whether you have a $60 night or a $600 one. Keeping records of what you clear AFTER payouts. Treating dancing as a traditional job and working Wed-Sun from 5-2 or whatever full time schedule you choose. if you are a student pick 3 nights a week and work them and SAVE that 30%.
I left a bad relationship and started from scratch literally. My boyfriend who is my fiance now bought me all new clothes and gave me money to open a new checking account and I started working at a new club. I didn't make big money but he put me on the 30% plan. I even saved 30% on a $20 night and I worked 5-6 nights a week with the exception of a few 4 night weeks and in 3 months I saved $3000.
My point is you have to have stability and focus. if i work a full month taking my good days witth bad and another dancer works hit and miss, no matter how many good nights she has, I will ALWAYS have more to show for my work than she will.
What do you have to gain by walking out of a club because it is slow an having no where else to go to replace it? You can't have a wek with NO income becaue you are mad at the club being slow!! Complete the week saving you 30% and just don't rebook there. You also have to keep in mind that a club can be busy one week and slow another. You MUST mix the slow with te good.
You wouldn't quit a sales job bcause of a slow week. Why do you do it as a dancer?
What you net at the end of a 5-6 day week and at the end of a month plus what you have SAVED is what matters.
You WILL NOT have as many big money days as low and middle of the road ones. The amount of money that is considered good for YOU can only be based on YOUR past earnings record, not what girls who boast of a $1000 night on December 29th say is good.
Be a STEADY worker and save STEADY money and you will see your savings grow. If you work sporadically you will have sporadic money to show for it. Forget the $500 and $1000 nights and be the best you can be and save 30% of whatever you make being your best.
And don't lose a nights work. You lose money if you miss a nights money no matter how slow it is. In an industry where over half of our customers have to go behind their wifes back to go to the club, your income will be up and down. But if you work this like a mainstream job never missing a night and always saving 30% and not leaving one club until you have another one to replace it and always finishing a weeks booking slow or not, you WILL come out ahead and have money to invest in other money making
opporunities.
You will have NOTHING to show for your dancing if you are not DISCIPLINED!!!! Many dancers work at an 8-5 job bringing home $400-$600 a week in 40 hours plus commute time, which is $80-$120 a day net and work for years at that job but walk out of a club if they have a night or two of those types of earnings. Your slow week at a club is going to most likely be better than an average week at a job and you KNOW you will have some MUCH better nights mixed in.
You must be commited and patient and focused on saving money if you want to get ahead dancing!!!!!



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