Oh, this is bad, bad, bad.
Money around this area isn't fabu regardless, I think the typical pull for a night shift is $250. I usually hover around $300, once in a while hit up towards $500 or so.
But I worked Wednesday and Thursday, and walked with $110 and $160, respectivelly. Now I know that there are dead nights. It hasn't been great recently, but it's definitely hustleable out there on the floor. And of course there are bad mood nights, when I don't make money because I didn't work very hard, and I can accept those. But I've been trying to hustle, I swear!!
Wednesday was ridiculous. I made (before tipouts & house fee etc) $151. I did 3 private dances at $20/each. So that leaves $91 I made from stage tips and dollar dances. That's absurd. Stage tips are rarely more than $10-12 a set, and we do 3 sets a night. So I did 60 dollar dances (for comparison' sake, I typically do 2, maybe 3 dollar dances at the MOST before reeling in a custy, so I might do a total of 20 dollar dances all night). No one wanted a private.I have completely lost my hustling mojo.
There's a lot of shit going on that could be contributing to this.
#1 - I'm not partying nearly as much as I was... the club's cracked down on recreational party favors (it was a good and necessary crackdown). So I'm still adjusting to working in a different state of mind than I had been working in during the past few months.
#2 - I'm broke ass right now, and am feeling the pressure to make lots of money... which means that when it's tough, I tend to get really discouraged and stop trying as hard.
#3 - I just started seeing someone new, and I'm really just not having any fun sitting on random custy's laps and flirting with them. Work is my primary social life, and I used to kinda have fun interacting with the custy's. Now I just want to be at home hanging out with new boy.
#4 - Plain old burnout. I've never danced for longer than 6 consecutive months without taking a break and getting a "real job" to tide me over for a while until I miss dancing and go back again. I've been dancing since Augustish last year, so that's.... eight months.
I'm going on "vacation" this next Tuesday - heading down to my old stomping grounds in AZ for a couple of weeks. I'll be working down there, but I think the change in scenery will help a little. Dear lord, I hope so. If I can't make decent - strike that - really good money doing this, then I'm screwed, and I've gotta start figuring out what else I can do to support me and my daughter.
*sigh*
Just a vent, that's all. Thanks for listening.
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cali


I have completely lost my hustling mojo. 
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