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    Sometimes it feels like so much sheer luck when I make money at work that I just think it's magical. But not in a good way, exactly. Not to look a gift-horse in the mouth or anything...my problem is that when I make $300-400 off of one customer on a Monday or something, I am thrilled, but so taken aback...It worries me to make so much money off of one guy like that because I start to doubt that I can make money on my own.

    Maybe I'm not explaining this very well. I adore getting so much money off of one guy, because those big spenders are usually very nice guys to dance for anyway (what a bonus). But it's always an accident when I find them! I can never tell until we're doing the dances that they're spendy. We don't have VIP, so it's all a variation of $20/song. $400 for one guy means I dance for 20 consecutive songs (which, tiring, but still). I think what worries me is I feel it's so out of my hands, that I have no control over how much money I can get...

    Basically every time it happens, it feels like a miracle, not to be repeated. But it does repeat itself, often enough. Am I alone in being bothered by this? Does anyone else ever wonder that every nice, generous customer is their last? Maybe it's because we sell by the song here...The money is pretty good in this area, comparatively speaking, but it seems to come from many different guys...I don't know what I'm bothered by, it just makes me anxious somehow.

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    I feel you. There have been a million times when I felt like I only made good money because I got lucky off one guy. As opposed to knowing I'd make the money anyway because there were tons of guys clammoring for a dance from me.

    But it isnt JUST luck. He liked YOU enough to spend that much. You didnt just trip and fall into his wallet! He could have stopped at any time and chose someone else...but you are SO hot and SO good at your job that he didnt.

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    I agree with you - but things like that are motivating when it's slow and there's a slump. It really only does take one customer, and it helps you hustle just one more guy, or not get stressed when it's really, really, really dead.

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    I know exactly how you feel. The feeling is intensified when I make a 1000+ off of one guy doing what seems little. Then, I begin to second guess it and next thing I know it seems like I lose my mojo for the remainder of the night when I should feel superbly motivated.

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    A few days ago I recalculated my daily averages and monthy earnings MINUS my big spender regular. The results were scary. He makes such a difference that I started to think all these negative thoughts like, "I'm actually just an average dancer without him, when he's gone I won't be a top earner anymore...blah blah blah" but the truth is, big spenders are customers and, I don't know just how to explain this, but they are a part of what this business is about for us and we absolutely can't discount them and we should even expect them.
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    I've also thought it's just pure dumb luck sometimes. Yeah you have to hustle, but it's sometimes just being the lucky girl to plop down at the moment he's ready to open his wallet.

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    I always get these guys by accident, I think most girls do. But I get them a lot. I don't think there is a limited supply and one day they will stop coming, so I don't get worried. It just motivates me to ask everyone!

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    I adore your thought processes.

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    Quote Originally Posted by LatinaRose View Post
    I've also thought it's just pure dumb luck sometimes. Yeah you have to hustle, but it's sometimes just being the lucky girl to plop down at the moment he's ready to open his wallet.
    Yeah....like the guy that walked up to me clutching a grand in funny money and said, " My boss just gave this to me to spend, how can I do that?"

    Up to Skybox we went!

    or the guy who walked up to me at the bar and said wanna do a half hour?
    No..actually, elts just make it an hour. Wait..can I pay for 2 hours up front and get it out of the way?
    We actually spent 4 hours in VIp that night...talking. He was here on business and just wanted company.

    Or the guy I saw pull out his wallet and peel some hundreds off, so I sat down. He handed me some and said, wanna do a VIP?
    How much do you make a night?
    A grand? Ok. I'll pay that to stay in vip with you a few hours.
    Some dancing, mostly talking. A doctor. very nice guy.


    Honestly..I can think of 2 nights I made over a grand due to pure hustling. All the other times it's all been dumb luck, being in the right place at the right time. But yeah..it does happen a lot, do I'm, not worried the luck wil run out, or it will never happen again.

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    I frequently say, it only takes one guy to make my night. Those nights I have to hustle make me grateful for those easy money nights.

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    Oh I am sooooooooooo glad u made this thread!!
    I have been doubting myself as a top earner lately because most of my big nights I get there via the help of regulars.

    I also have this annoying habit of saying I made X amount tonight but if it hadn't been for so and so I would have really made X amount.

    Im so glad to know Im not the only dancer who does this!!
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    I don't really have anything to add...but I feel the same way, and often.

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    Oh, I feel this way all the time. But I know that it truly isn't by "luck" that I get these guys. I make my luck every night.

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    This is just the way the job works. There's your hustle of course, particularly just the effort to ask every body for a dance, which increases your odds, but the rest is mysterious. I like to work 3-9. Often from 7-8 I make zero dollars, then from 8-9 I'll make $2-300 from one guy. It happens so often yet it still surprises me. I understand the nervewracking feeling, but it's not worth analyzing what would have happened if that one guy didn't come in, because he did. If he didn't another one would, or a few smaller spenders would which would add up.

    Oddly enough, I spent a fair amount of energy wondering when my stripping/money making skills (or luck) would be gone in a puff of smoke, and it never seemed to happen.

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    I've had lots of regulars, but two really good ones that spent over 1K a week. When I lost the first one (he was an asshole that wanted to fuck me)...literally two weeks later the other one came along. I was all scared that my income would drop so dramatically, and then things worked out. It DOES seem so random, though. I mean, what if another girl had approached one of those regs first? Right when I met the first one he said, "Don't worry. I'll take care of you tonight." And he did. But if it had been someone else to approach him, I'm sure he would have said the same thing to them.

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