You mentioned earlier in the thread that you had a picture you used on Ebay. So does that mean you sometimes do work outside of the club (e.g. private parties)? If so, do you generally prefer working in one situation or the other?
You said you work in one of the better clubs in your town - if your only opportunity was to work in a worse club, would you still dance?
I kind of thought it would be counter-productive. Thanks for satisfying my curiosity!
No, that means I sell things on eBay.
I’ve worked in a lot of different clubs, including smaller ones. I can’t imagine why that would be my only opportunity, so I don’t know if I would continue or not. If I’m not good looking enough to work in the top clubs then I don’t want to be in the business, if that is what you are asking.
Do you find that a girl’s face being really beautiful matters as much as her having a good body in order to work in a top club? Would a very plain girl with a great body get hired in your club, for example? Or is personality, dancing ability, and stage presence more important than just looks?
I’ve already answered that one.
I’ve read the whole thread and remember you talking about a girl’s weight, but not her facial beauty. Or if I missed it, do you have any memory of where in the thread it might be? (Just off the top of your head, obviously.)
I said that there are a lot of very average looking women in SC’s. Very few are actually “beautiful” in the face.
I haven’t been to a SC since being taken to one for my bachelor party. Interestingly enough, the one woman who stuck in my mind for a long time had such a pretty face, and especially nice eyes, that I was almost disappointed when she turned around. 
It was obvious to me that there was a lot of intelligence behind those eyes, and now, many years later, she’s the only dancer I remember. I’ve always been a sucker for smart women. My guess is that you create a similar impression.
I might, but I promise you wouldn’t be disappointed when I turned around. 
I deliver on a few different levels.
Do guys ever request that you put on a particular fetish item for them (like a corset or something) and have you done it?
I would change into a corset if someone paid me. Ditto on stockings or some other item like that.
I, personally, haven’t run into a lot of guys with fetishes, but they are out there. There used to be a guy (I’m sure he’s still around) who would come in and pay women to put cigarettes out on him, and he’d ask them to pee in a cup for money so he could drink it, and he had a run-of-the-mill foot fetish as well. He was a wacko.
I ask because this line of work seems to offer excellent money, with no taxes withheld. Suppose you are really in demand-and make $1000/night. If you can work 6 nights a week, that’s $24K/month. Assuming you keep expenses low, you should be able to save $120K/year-in 20 years, you should have a nice nest egg.
Do most retire wealthy?
No, very few people that I know of go from dancing to retirement with a huge savings.
People generally spend what they make, that’s true for any career. And with dancing it is cash in your hand every night and it is very easy to spend. Even the most diligent savers don’t save a fraction of what they probably should. Keeping expenses low is a great idea in theory, but it is hard for most people to put into practice when they are making decent cash all of the time.
No one makes $1000 a night. That’s a myth that people believe about strippers, that we all make tons and tons of cash every night. The top earners do very well, but they don’t have $1000 nights the overwhelming majority of the time. I, for instance, am a very consistent earner, but I don’t cross that mark very often. And sometimes I have a night where I only make $200. I have never known any dancer to make $24K in a month. Hardly anyone works 6 days a week, it just isn’t rational in this business. A “full-time” dancer works anywhere from 3-5 days a week and takes time off regularly.
That said, I think it is very possible to retire from dancing with a significant amount of money in the bank to take you along to your next career. I plan to have a certain amount saved and invested before I stop, so that I can comfortably transition into a different job without taking a huge pay cut or change in lifestyle. But I am the exception rather than the rule. Most dancers in their '20s blow every bit of money they make. I know I did.
$200 a NIGHT!! That is fabulous money! And what do you need ? A few bikinis? You are basically paid for doing what you would pay to do (in a health club). Man-I wish I could make that kind of money!
You obviously have no idea what it takes to make money in a SC, or what you need to work there. It is far more work than what you would do “in a health club,” and you need a hell of a lot more than a few bikinis. The suggestion that it is easy money is ludicrous and insulting. Just because something looks easy to you does not mean that it is. And $200 would not be considered a good night for what we do. Yes, I realize that is still a lot of cash, but I would feel robbed if I went home with that after eight hours.
I, for one, think I would find it impossibly hard.
Indy, you earn that money!
We really do. I think a lot of people overlook the fact that for every single dollar we make we interact with customers for it. It is a sales job through and through. If I make $600 in a night it is because I’ve probably danced onstage for the length of about 25 songs (going on stage once an hour for eight hours) and I’ve probably danced 25 private dances.
Unless you have ever danced for 50 songs or more in a night you really can’t imagine how much that takes out of you physically. And for every dance you do you have sold it by talking, smiling, flirting, etc. Sometimes that is a very easy thing to do, other times it is not.
Really? Because that is $25 an hour, in cash. Doesn’t sound too bad to me. I would never say that the job is easy, by any means, but I can’t imagine working at a job where I would feel that $25 an hour is being “robbed.”
You say that you sometimes make $200, and rarely make as much as $1000 per night. Would it be fair to say that you average out at about $400 a night or so? For 8 hours, that is $50 an hour. I know you work hard, but a lot of people do, and I’d bet that the vast majority of those who do physical labor for a living make nowhere near $50 an hour, especially in cash.
Indygrrl: I wanted to ask, what are table dances at your club ($) and do you have a VIP room, and if so what is the fee there?
When I danced in Tucson, we made way, way less money than dancers elsewhere did because A) no VIP room and B) table dances were only $5. I considered $200 a very good shift, and more often made closer to $100. And sometimes, as I said, I went home with less than I came in with, after all the fees and so on.
When I went to Texas (I went 3 or 4 times total, for anywhere from a week to a month at a time–no VIP rooms at those clubs either, but table dances were $15-20 depending on the club) I made way, way more money. Usually $300-$600/night. One night I made over $500 and I only danced something like 2 or 3 table dances. The rest was just one main guy who paid me to sit and talk to him for several hours.
Guys can strip, too and make lots of money at it as well (depending on what they look like, of course)