I've been dancing for about 10 months now and was wondering what were generally the signs and symptoms of burnout? I'm not sure if I was feeling burnout last week or was just having a bad week and very irritated by the crowd we've had. Since I'm in Atlanta we had the whole final four thing with lots of tourists. I worked Tues, Thurs, Fri and Sat. Tues night wasn't good for me because I got a VIP with this guy who I found out later was in jail for 12 yrs and he was obviously on steroids so he was super aggressive and ended up trying to stick his finger up my butt, grabbed my boobs and then put his hand in between my legs. I had already given him warnings but when he touched my kitty, I put my foot down and he got really mad. I ended the VIP and left. It ruined the rest of my night.
Then the Thurs, Fri and Sat night crowd was super obnoxious, hearing all sorts of "what do I get", "come on, work for it" (a dollar-wow!!!), I also got a guy who tried to rip me off on the dance I gave him, he claimed he didn't ask for the dance and then claimed he thought so in so was paying for it, so I said "pay me the $10 right now!!!!", he then said I was very rude, yeah whatever dude! He gave me a $20 and I walked away, he actually chased me across the club demanding change back, when I gave him his change he then claimed "that's only $9", so I counted it out loud and it of course was the correct change. The ONLY reason I didn't have him kicked out because we were about to close anyway and I just wanted to get dressed and get out of there.
On thurs, fri and sat I was sooo over it, mentally drained and felt the emotional energy just sucked out of me that I didn't even want to dance for anyone, I didn't even want to do any VIP's, even if they had been handed to me because I didn't want to have to sit with someone for an hour or more and entertain them. I've NEVER not wanted to do a VIP, that's how we make the majority of our money.
I don't know if I was feeling burnout or if I had just lost my patience with the rude, obnoxious crowd we had this week for the Final Four games. The crowd was like the typical young, bachelor party, weekend beer drinking obnoxious types except multiply that times 10! At one point during the night I was trying to get through the crowd near the bar because I was running late for stage and this guy was standing in the way and I very nicely said to him "excuse me" and he said "no, I'm not moving" (now, I know he was in an obnoxious way joking around but I wasn't having any of it" so I pushed him really hard out of my way! It felt really good! This other guy when I was on stage was taking a dollar and saying you gotta work for it, doing the pretending to put the dollar in the garter and then taking it out so I grabbed the money right out of his hand!
These guys turned me into a raging bitch not putting up with any crap whatsoever! For all the guys standing around the stage that weren't tipping, I told them to "get the hell away from my stage, it's rude to stand here and not tip", so when I said that, not only did they tip but they asked me to come dance for them!
I'm wondering if I was feeling burnout or if it was just the crowd this week. Because today I'm feeling better, I'm still going to take a couple days off. I'm just wondering what are the signs & symptoms of burnout? I think it's pretty bad when you don't even want a VIP, even if it's handed to you! I don't know if that was burnout or just fed up with bad crowd of people we had in town for the games.
What do you all think? Can you tell me some symptoms of burnout? Tell me your symptoms of burnout? Thanks!!!



), I also got a guy who tried to rip me off on the dance I gave him, he claimed he didn't ask for the dance and then claimed he thought so in so was paying for it, so I said "pay me the $10 right now!!!!", he then said I was very rude, yeah whatever dude! He gave me a $20 and I walked away, he actually chased me across the club demanding change back, when I gave him his change he then claimed "that's only $9", so I counted it out loud and it of course was the correct change. The ONLY reason I didn't have him kicked out because we were about to close anyway and I just wanted to get dressed and get out of there.
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)..but now I'm back at work, feeling refreshed and making more money than ever. We are so lucky that we really can afford to take the vacation time that dancing allows; take advantage of it!! Do yo u have an emergency stash or savings account somewhere that could support you for a few weeks?

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