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    Default could u do another job after dancing??

    Well we all complain and have to deal with a lot of shit being dancers but IMO and I know most will share this view the job definately has some great aspects to it.

    My question is, now that you have danced, could you give up dancing and do something else or would u miss the money and flexibility etc that dancing provides too much.

    Has anyone given up dancing and stayed doing another job?
    Has anyone given up dancing but then returned after not being as satisfied from the other job as u were in dancing.

    Im almost finished my uni degree and when I get a job I know I'll really miss a lot about dancing and def not just the money- I love being able to work a few nights a week, getting all dressed up and made-up before work, feeling like a bit of a star, performing on stage and I'll miss the friendships with the other dancers and the fun we have at work.

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    Default Re: could u do another job after dancing??

    Jaizaine, I swear I was JUST having this conversation at Super Bowl with my good friend.

    I am scared to have a non dancing job, no joke! I shudder at the idea of having a set schedule, of clocking in and out, of making a *gasp* pay check! There are nights where I am so sick and tired of dancing, really really do not liek it...but then I think abotu getting a different kind of job, the kid I hd before dancing...and I know I don't want that!

    So then I have a problem....I will want to stop dancing someday (who knows when!) and I will want to do something else....but what on earth would I do that would make me as happy as dancing does? And I can make great money? And all the other good sh*t that comes with dancing.....

    The farther down this industry sinks, the more I think about what I will do next. And it always makes me sad, nervous and scared (i'm such a wussy!).
    I too am curious about what other women have done once they left the clubs, and how it worked out for them.... spill it!




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    Default Re: could u do another job after dancing??

    since i'll still be making dancer-money and have as much or more flexibility with my chosen career paths, i don't really miss dancing. also, being able to make dancer money or better until i'm 70 or 80 has a pretty compelling appeal that supercedes any of the attention one gets in the course of being a dancer.

    but i do plan to pole dance for sport, so i won't be giving up the performance aspect, which is the main part i do miss a lot.

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    Default Re: could u do another job after dancing??

    So what do you do now, Miabella?
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    Default Re: could u do another job after dancing??

    Mia, can I venture out and ask what you will be doing?




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    Default Re: could u do another job after dancing??

    I live in NY and teach fitness classes and personal train. After reading the thread about what dancers on SW make on average, I make the same and work less hours than putting in a shift at a club. I miss getting dolled up but I feel like I have more flexibility doing what I do now.

    Living in NY has its perks though.

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    Well, I don't want to give up dancing right now. I want to go to college and graduate, I want to be a psycologist but honestly I think I will miss this job a lot! On the other hand, I would also love to have a strip club of my own. Be the owner and house mom. I think that would make me happier.

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    Default Re: could u do another job after dancing??

    Mia,
    I miss the perforance aspect. What do you do now?

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    Oh I forgot! I worked for a while in Las Vegas and then moved to CA. I got a job as the director's assistant at a preschool, and honestly, all I could think about was..."Damn! I work 40 hours a week, I have a very non flexible schedule, I'm always stressed or bored, and the money I make isn't even a quarter of what I used to make...." I was so not happy!

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    i talk about that all the time! i love making my own hours, not having to follow a strict schedule, making tons of money only working a few days a week.. plus just the fun aspect of it all! it'll definately be hard to get used to working at a "normal" place.

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    I've started bartending, then gone back to dancing. I always get pissed at the bullshit I put up with for less money. I don't see the point in non-dancing....

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    ^ Yeah, I don't see the point either.

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    I will certainly miss it. I WON'T miss having to lie about what I do for a living. It will be great to not freak out when someone says, "so, what do you do for a living?". God, I hate that question!

    I'm going to be a teacher though, so I'm still entertaining the thought of dancing during summers (in another city) if the need be.
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    i am hanging out my freelance computer nerd consulting shingle-- custom programming in fields where that's a decent percentage of those fields' software markets. combining my IT background (that mostly languished while stripping) with a CPA= licence to print money. and much like stripping, it takes a few months to get started and a year or two to start pulling in the real money. i only wish i could have gotten started on the whole thing while dancing, but it was too distracting for me to do other work much.

    not many people can break out industry-specific software programming+CPA/accounting background. consultants who can do pretty freaking well, because it is quite rare.

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    I have tried doing another job. A good job with good money and good benefits. It was even an easy job. After a few weeks I was driving home every night after work just WISHING I could go to the strip club.

    I quit the job and I will probably never bother trying to work a regular job again. So for me, the answer is "I highly doubt it".

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    I think I'd only dance again if I did a shift of no more than 4hours.

    I'm definitely not a 9 to 5'er. But with my current job, I'm no used to workig (or staying in one place) for more thn 2hours at a time.

    Stripping, entertainment and fitness industries spoil people. hehe.

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    I quit dancing and worked in publishing for five years. It was nice for a long time, but ultimately I had a dickwad boss and I wasn't making enough money. I also had a hard time getting ahead professionally. I just wasn't willing to play the game in a corporate environment.

    I did work once a week (or so, haha) at a club and that is what made me realize I didn't have to be stuck and miserable. So I quit my job and went to a nicer club, and now here I am. I don't know how long I'll do it, but for now it's just what I need. Maybe I can figure out what I really want to do when I grow up. I do know this, it does NOT involve an office or a cubicle.
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    honestly my dream job just can't pay as much as dancing. In event planning there are long stretches of regular office hours, 6-8 hours a day, with periods when you don't go home for a few days, rent a hotel room and just focus entirely on whatever needs to happen. I don't know if I could support myself on it. Like an artist waitressing, except getting naked too.

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    This I what I am faced with right now. I wasn't happy with the jobs that my firdt degree offered me, or at least not for a long enough time. I went back to school at 26 and also found dancing around that time. Now I am 28, and I have graduated again in the field of Physical Therapist Assisting. I know I want to work in an hospital. The solution that I have come up with for now is to work part tme at a hospital that offers my benifits for this and dance as well.
    But then again it is really hard for me to commit. I want to go to Austalia next winter to dance and stay with friends on the 4 month bunac visa.

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    I don't think that I can, but I know at some point it will be inevitable-unless I get my butt it gear and start working more and investing my money. I started at 28,and I'm 29 now, but as long as I keep looking as young as people tell me I do, I still have a while yet in this business and to possibly invest enough to retire from it. *Crosses fingers*

    I love the flexibility, I love the money and I also love the fact that I have FUN at work. I'm just not cut out for the rat race, 8-5, 40-hour week corporate jobs where you're stuck in a cubicle all day, have two measly days off to enjoy your life-Oh, and don't get me started on the shitty amount of vacation time we get here compared to other countries.

    I want to have fun and enjoy my life while I'm young-I figure I'll save the boring-ass monotonous grind of a regular job until I'm older and can't dance anymore. Unless, of course, I get with a good accountant and start investing my money so I can retire young and live in the lap of luxury!

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    Default Re: could u do another job after dancing??

    i gave up dancing after about 5 months because i found the hard hustle really exhausting and i wasnt making money.

    ive recently returned and am determined to make money from this job. i just wish it was as easy in the UK as it is in America. We dont have a tipping mentality or get tipped on stage for dancing so we hav to hustle hard for dances and VIPs to make a buck.

    but i WILL make this work because i REFUSE to be someone elses employee, putting money in someone elses pocket.
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    Disclaimer: I havn't read thru all this thread yet

    I am scared to have a non dancing job, no joke! I shudder at the idea of having a set schedule, of clocking in and out, of making a *gasp* pay check! There are nights where I am so sick and tired of dancing, really really do not liek it...but then I think abotu getting a different kind of job, the kid I hd before dancing...and I know I don't want that!
    I am with you there! I worked in food and beverage (hospitality industry) mainly in cafes prior to stripping. I also did other courses through-out the years and was exposed to other "career" paths such as office admin and child care however in the end no matter what... I just can't do it. I would love the stability however I know at the same time I would become very bored with the "job" (and I refer to it a J.O.B (Just Over Broke) as that is pretty much what it means).

    I also detest the 'power' employers have over employees now in this country. No J.O.B is safe and secure anymore. Plus I did the employee thing and I didn't like it. I enjoy being my own boss even if it seems like people have alot of power over me like an employee instead of me working with them ... I am working for them as such.

    In answer to your questions, in a way at one point I did give up dancing and tried my hand a few times at Skimpy work. It was tooo much like what I did prior to entering the industry and yes I became very bored with it. The mundane nature of working behind a bar got to me. Pouring beers and so forth wasn't very stimulating to me. It bored the living christ out of me in the end so I can only really do it once or twice a year for two weeks at a time now.

    In the end my plan to leave this industry is as my own boss and/or an investor. I am forever working on how to be my own boss for the rest of my life. If I am ever an employee again, kill me.

    I'm too damn head strong to be an employee. It is the main reason why I'm having troubles with private party dancing right now.... I feel I'm treated too much like an employee and I detest it. I feel like I'm working FOR the agents and not WITH them. Just the way that part of the industry is run is not suited to me. I do better in strip clubs as I like how I can leave one club and go to another without it hurting me too much.

    The private party scene is so much different. You have to work for an agent/agency as otherwise you need decent amount of cash etc behind you in order to break into that scene totally independantly free of the agents (and even then you may have alot to work against due to being so brazen to work without an agent).

    Then again I'm trying to expand myself as an entertainer and performer to include hooping and burlesque... I can do both separately or together with or without the adult entertainment aspect of it. I'm hoping to eventually one day be a teacher of all this as well not just a performer.

    Plus also to eventually one day own/run my own vet. After visiting my local one so damn frequently (every second day due to my cat) I am realising more and more how happy and fulfilled I would be if I owned one. I would work involve myself quite happily in that business via being the receptionist etc and leave the actual vet work to those skilled in that area.


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    Yeah. Dancing is alot of fun but in many other ways, you really learn to appreciate having a straight job with a steady hourly rate after being in the industry.
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    I think I fit the question to this post perfectly.

    I started dancing in college around 1996- LOVED IT.

    After graduating college in 1998, I quit dancing. I just wanted time off to enjoy not having to go to school, and not having to work. That lasted about a year. I missed dancing way too much.

    (at this point let me explain that I worked at the same club the whole time, an AMAZING place to work that even to this DAY I still think of fondly, and miss)-

    Started dancing again in 1999. LOVED IT!

    Got burnt out, moved to NYC. Started looking for 'real' work. I didn't want to work in NYC dancing, I knew too many people, and I certainly wasn't going to work in the lap dance/private room/funny money world. My old club wasn't like that.

    I started picking up temp jobs, and then moved on to work as a freelance makeup artist for the next 4 years. It didn't pay as well as dancing (what does?) but I had my freedom of schedule, plus working in makeup was fun.

    I got burnt out from that, needed more money, and starting driving (yes driving!) down to DC to work at my old club. So I starting dancing for a couple days a week in DC, commuting back and forth from NYC.

    That didn't work, and right at that time the Penthouse Executive Club just opened, and I went in BEGGING them for a job as an in-house makeup artist. The position was filled, but I told them about my years of experience blah blah blah, and hear I am 4 years later. My ass is still in the same desk chair.
    Now I head up the events and marketing for the club.

    So, do I miss it? EVERY DAY.
    However, I would not dance in NYC. I think if I stilled lived in the DC area, I'd dance 2 times a week, in addition to a regular job.

    It is possible to have a good paying job once you are out of dancing, but nothing, NOTHING is the same as stripping. So, enjoy it while you can, save your money, and come up with some sort of game plan for your future.
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    Default Re: could u do another job after dancing??

    Ive tried to quit but I just cant for now. I really want to but then again I just cant. Its wierd how addicted I am to every part of dancing. The club, music, people, money ect. ect.

    If I want to quit I have to get into school. So Im looking at some right now and hoping that it can help me make an exit plan. Im so glad I did it and I wouldnt change it for anything. But I think Im just about ready to move on with my life.

    I think what gets me is hiding it from everyone. My inlaws would just freak out and having to lie to my sons school and the other moms really sucks. Im really getting to the point that the only person I want to see me naked ever again is my husband and Im sure that he wouldnt mind that at all!

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