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    I try to work about one night a week at the club I started at. It's a dive bar (in the Portland way -- more than half of the clubs in Portland are basically bars with stages) and I love it. However I've been making much more money at another club... but since I love the music, people and stage at my first club I still go there and work on occasion. Not really for the money but because I love working there for... everything BUT the money. (What a silly reason, I know. But my gown club isn't nearly as fun!)

    However, lately it's pretty impossible for me to make a decent amount of money. I can still do well on stage tips, but it's a very small club -- 3, 4 girls max. In the past month or so a girl has started working there who's a very hardcore hustler. Sometimes there will only be three or so guys in there and she'll give all of them dances, while I'm onstage... they'll all follow her to the stage and not tip me. I know that a big dance myth is 'there's no money in this club', but it's not a fancy place... and if guys come in here with only $40, $60 to spend she'll get it out of them. Another girl who always works the same shifts has tons of regulars who only come in to see her. So then a lot of the time, it's just me and another girl having a crappy night while one or two other girls clean up on the few guys that are there.

    I'm not really asking for advice here... on good nights there's a lot of guys to talk to and stage tips flow really well. But on slow nights there are one or two girls that really get the $$ while I'm standing around dancing to some good music and glad I'm getting my cardio... The boss won't schedule me for more than one or two shifts a week (since it's so small, and lots of girls like dancing there) so I don't really have regulars there, and most of my regulars from my home club wouldn't like this place at all.

    Does anyone have similar experience? Working in such small environments that the line between the top earner and the rest of us is very clear? It's like the Pareto Principle except in a very small environment.

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    Default Re: can't make money at my old club

    In my experience, sometimes you have to trade the comfort of a small, familiar club and upgrade to a club that is more...hmm professional maybe...to make real money. I loved my 1st club too, but I was making half of what I make now.

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    Default Re: can't make money at my old club

    Every club doesn't work for everybody. The girls that have regulars at the small club may not be as much in the money mix at your other club.

    I work at several clubs where I have good loyal customers that allow me to outearn the majority of other dancers, and work at some where I'm not very popular.

    Wherever you can build the most following is probably where you should concentrate your time.

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    Default Re: can't make money at my old club

    It's a simple fact of life that nothing ever stays the same. Where this 'comfortable' small club is concerned, one new dancer altering the 'hustle factor', some local economic turn for the worse affecting the club's limited customer base etc. may be all that is required to change 'comfortable' into 'uneconomical'. Your choices are fairly limited IMHO ... either change your own 'hustle factor' to match, or search for 'greener pastures'.

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