Guest Post: How to Be a Successful Stripper for Dummies Part II

At the end of the night, if you haven't made enough to pay your "tip outs", who looks like the fool? That means you have to work for double on the next night. Not for your bills , but for your employees. Here's the Strip Club Staff "Tip Out" Breakdown:


House Fee: Refer back to the barbershop reference. You have to pay your booth rent or "House Fee". Depending upon how large and popular the club is, depends on how much money you have to tip out to the House/Club. You are paying them to dance there. If you are just that popular to be featured, then that is the ONLY time that someone will pay you to step foot on their stage. You're not important, you are bringing in the loot. And if you are a true hustler, your main goal would be to rack in more dollars than what they make at the bar. 

DJ: The DJ is important. No one wants to go on stage to "Tootsie Roll" when clearly your show stopper is Waka Flaka's "Round of Applause". Guess what that means, you pay the DJ to be your friend. Your DJ going without pay is like starving someone. These people aren't going to chase you down for their money. They simply forget you existed... cut your songs short, don't play your songs, or bypass forget you were on roll call to come to the stage.

Bouncers: Although, it's no guarantee because your "ass" don't mean a thing to them if it's not being used in more ways than one. You pay your bodyguards to guard your body! Let's just keep your fingers cross until you make it to your car and out of the parking lot to home, safely. It's not much to security's job other than to keep the peace in the facility. Your personal safety relies on something else. Green money. You feel the need to "take care of yourself"?... then you can "independently" carry your own bags to the car, fight the drunks that can't keep their hands off the wad in your garter, or clear your own money off the stage. Totally up to you.

House Mom: This is usually an ultimately fabulous male homosexual. He/she tends to the ladies every need from hair and makeup, lashes and waxes, to airbrushing asses, to passing out sweets, and selling costumes. You name it, they are suppose to have it. But everything comes at a price. Not to mention, the House Moms' whose services may never be needed but they still require payment, just for being there. 


Honey, now you are fully equipped and ready to go. Are you sure this is the right career? I could also equip you with backstage passes so that you can see what goes on behind the scenes when the other dancers steal your outfits and money. Or we could start a documentary on how the church girl goes from the church, straight to rehab. But never the less, we are reminded of the famous quote from "Player's Club", "make the money, don't let it make you." Whatever you decide to do, don't fall!

Did you ever knew there was so much of a business aspect to becoming a stripper? Did you know strippers had to tip, too? Would you pay any of these other people? Have you ever considered being a stripper? How do you like our guest blogger Candi?

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Written by Candi. Candi is the creator of the blog Sense So Common. Candi expresses the real, the raw and uncut truth passionately and intelligently...Her moves are only reserved for the keyboard and for her readers because she understands that maybe Sense Isn't So Common.

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