I still do pretty well at my club but I think we are all not doing as well as we were a year ago. I'm having a hard time accepting that the money is just not as consistant as it used to be and I have to work harder to get it. How do the rest of you strong, professional dancers out there deal with this mentally? I've felt denial, frustration, anger all with how this once fun, profitable indusry is going down the shitter and how crappy the economy is going. I feel like when I started as I got better and better at being an entertainer that I could make this fantastic industry work in my favor and set me up for my future and allow me to do what I really want to do with my life. I just feel like a have a few good years left to milk this for everything it is worth and getting exactly what I want out of this that I wanted finding the courage and strength to do this in the first place.

But it is hard keeping a positive additude when some many customers nowadays are expecting way more and girls are doing more and more for less money. I feel like Minneapolis had way too many clubs for the population and I'm really annoyed with the quality of girls that are working with me now. I think I am a pretty, classy, charming girl and a good dancer and sometimes I feel like that is not enough. I still feel like a can appeal to a respectful well paying customer but lately I feel like they are few and far between and the trashy girls at my club are attracting disrespectful, cheap customers. How do I block out what everyone eles is doing and try to focus on being a successful entertainer for quality guys when I feel like these girls are scaring them away and just plain training the guys all wrong about how to be entertained?

It's a slow season right now I know but I guess I just wanted tips from dancers who have made sucessful careers out of dancing and have dealt with the ups and downs of the industry in a positive way. How do you keep it fresh and not allow yourself to become burnt out? How do you great, classy, fun, sexy entertainers manage to focus when it seems like everyone around you is cheapening the whole gentleman club experience?