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    I was wondering that the longer you stay in the business the more you work. Not because the money is bad but because you want more stuff or just want to have a cushy retirement etc. Whatever the reason but it always seems to me that the longer you stay in the more you work. My little theory isn't entirely based on age but it does seem that more mature dancers want to work more. I think I'm making sense.
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    HA! The older I get the LESS I work! Mostly because I just dont have the patience anymore. But partly because I value my LIFE more now and dont want to spend all of it working.

    I spend far more time now on developing other projects then I do dancing!

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    True.

    Then again it depends on my sechedule. I hate just sitting around doing nothing - when I was younger than was not a big deal. Now, it is.

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    It all comes down to having stability in your life. Many but not all younger dancers are not at the point in their life where they are completely on their own. What I mean by that is that parents don't have much input in how we live our lives once we get older and have our own families.

    Plus peer pressure is a big reason why so many boyfriends of younger dancers can't accept the business. Many younger dancers are students, and are in their party years. That is the experimental stage of life, ie: experimenting with different dating partners, various friendships, and being new to living away from home. The average twenty something dancer with some exceptions of course, is not ready to get their own place by themselves, furnish it like a home, get a dog in the yard, put money in the credit union every week, establish good credit, and build a stable life from this business.Plus many younger dancers in college feel that a "good" job is ahead of them once they graduate, so they don't take this business seriously.

    Once many girls get that "rat race" paycheck job, over some time they grow disillusioned with working in the corporate world, and grow more concerned with how much money they are making, and less concerned with fitting into a mainstream job.

    Of course all older dancers are not stable and working towards financial security, but once girls gets older and realize their party years are behind them, many realize it is time to settle down and make a life for themselves, with or without a marriage, children, or stable partners.

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    I agree with Tina. Personally, though, I've been working less as I've gotten older. I did, however, move back to my mother's house, which essentially fits into Tina's theory; when I had to pay rent (or at least more of it), bills, groceries, furnish my apartment, etc, I worked a lot more.

    I feel like dancing has aged my body though. I'm 21 and have been dancing for 2.5 yrs, but my body feels so much older than I think a 21yr old's body should feel. Gotta take better care of myself. That's another reason why I dance less now: I can't do it as well.

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    I worked more shifts when I was younger, and I can't do as many in a row now as I did then. I had a ton of debt when I started dancing, so I was motivated by that. I would say that many dancers hit a point after a few years where they realize how much they've made and how much they don't have, and they start to try to turn that around, though some just continue to keep their head in the sand. I do think older dancers have a good understanding about how fleeting stripping is, get really focused, and try to get as much out of it as they can.

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    I work less. When I started and the money was rolling in like I'd never seen, I was spending like a crazy person. Now, I'm cheap and I spend less... and work less. I wouldn't call myself "burnt out", but I'm not excited about it like I was 5 years ago.
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    I work less. When I first started dancing, I thought $200 was a minor windfall and I was afraid it would stop at any moment so I had to work every night. I saved almost all of it back then, too. Now I've gotten kind of comfy. I wanna save bunches of money, but I feel like if I need money I can always go make some when I need it, so I don't work as much. To combat my laziness, I just live on a third of what I make so that I have to put a bunch of money towards retirement/student loans.



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    I find myself working less too. I pick my shifts more wisely and generally come out making more money in a smaller amount of time. No, my head isn't in the sand, but I'm more lazy now than I used to be and have become stagnant in the business. I need to multi-task now, like I did when I started, but I'm not sure what direction I should go in. The business has made me so jaded about the real world. I just can't see myself going back to work for someone else. This business can be a blessing and a curse and I hate the fact that I'm getting older. It's unfortunate but true that you can't dance forever...

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    The older I get the more I want to work... maybe I realize I can't do this forever and now's the time to save.

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    I work more to make more. I left a lucrative corporate career that I went to school for, to go back to dancing.

    I feel I have to be making a certain amount to keep up with, and even exceed what I could have been making if I had stayed with my corporate career path. As I'm getting older, I do want financial stability and that wasn't as important when I was younger.

    Then again, I'm not sure that I work more days, per se, but I sure work more hours, if that makes any sense. I'm not sure if I qualify for part time or full time.

    I'm all about working smarter not harder.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Tina View Post
    Once many girls get that "rat race" paycheck job, over some time they grow disillusioned with working in the corporate world, and grow more concerned with how much money they are making, and less concerned with fitting into a mainstream job.
    ^^^This is exactly me. I started dancing post-college, post-rat race jobs. I was really concerned after graduation with what I was doing with my life and where I was going, and if the world would realize how smart I was and how much I had to offer. Um. *cough* *cough* After learning that 1. no one gives a shit how smart you are 2. unless you are paying my bills, then you don't have a say where I work and 3. many real-world jobs don't pay as much as stripping and won't let you choose your status at will ie. over time, then part time, then full time... after the above, I consider myself very thankful that I fell upon stripping.

    Therefore, I work as much as I can physically and mentally stand. And I work full shifts. (I've only gone home early twice in two years, and that is because I was physically ill.) I work for my future, basically, because I know how shitty most jobs out there are, and how disillusioned I was when I worked a standard job. I'm not ready to return. I don't want to. I want to have enough money when I quit to "stick it to the man" because, I have met the man. And I hate him.
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    I'm on my 16th year. I work more, make more and save more. Oddly, it gets easier every year. I also hit the gym like mad, haven't tanned in 10 years and fully enjoy my time off, which all helps heeps.
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    I think older girls often tend to work more because they've realized they NEED to in order to accomplish whatever goals they have for the future. When you're younger / new in the biz it's too easy to think "ah I can just make the money tomorrow" and skip work and/or spend all your cash frivolously. Older girls have realized that clock doesn't stop ticking.

    There's also another contributing factor: I think many older girls tend to take better care of themselves than younger girls because they've realized they have to in order to maximize earning potential (after all, they have to compete with younger girls now) so that often gives them more energy to keep going long after the younger ones give up. I'm a perfect example of that - I can outdance girls nearly half my age without complaint (except maybe my feet hurt). I might do 60+ dances in a night while the 20yos are moaning about how tired they are after 10-30 dances.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Bridgette View Post
    I think older girls often tend to work more because they've realized they NEED to in order to accomplish whatever goals they have for the future. When you're younger / new in the biz it's too easy to think "ah I can just make the money tomorrow" and skip work and/or spend all your cash frivolously. Older girls have realized that clock doesn't stop ticking.

    There's also another contributing factor: I think many older girls tend to take better care of themselves than younger girls because they've realized they have to in order to maximize earning potential (after all, they have to compete with younger girls now) so that often gives them more energy to keep going long after the younger ones give up. I'm a perfect example of that - I can outdance girls nearly half my age without complaint (except maybe my feet hurt). I might do 60+ dances in a night while the 20yos are moaning about how tired they are after 10-30 dances.
    Perhaps... I do think, though, that you are rather biased, in many of your posts, towards more mature dancers (and understandably so...) but I know of MANY younger, hardworking and hard-hustling girls who take damn good care of themselves and are ANYThing but lazy. If I work less than 4 shifts a week it's because of a busu school schedule. I'm young, on my own, not in a relationship, not inclined to party, in school, and a workaholic. This translates to using work not only as a job but as a social outlet and function of stability/activity in my life. I've been dayshift at the same club with pretty much the same girls for a fair bit now, and i LOVE it. Most of the older girls at my club don't really work much more than their scheduled shifts... they are hardworkers, yes, but they have families(boyfriends/husbands...sometimes kids... the "familial life" variable makes a BIG difference for dancers both young and old.

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