Job Satisfaction

guidomerkinsrules said
I knew several concert dancers who would do nightclub to pay the bills
There was only about 25% of them who could turn off their brains/disassociate enough to do that work without damaging themselves
And not just with the obvious dehumanizing/objectifying; but similar to performers who are waiters, you’re early 20s, it’s midnight, you’re keyed up, you have $500 in your pocket (and you had zero when you got to work) -
Do you have the discipline to say ‘no, I have an audition/class tomorrow; I’m going home and putting all of this money in my sock drawer’
Believe it or not, many 20 year olds don’t have that discipline

I never could sing or dance.. but that age you mentioned is the exact age i was when i worked at a hotel a few steps off of Bourbon St as a bellman & concierge .. so yeah of course id make a few bucks hauling people’s luggage up to their rooms.. but the big money was selling tours; for example a family of four would come up to me in the lobby inquiring about a swamp tour.. i had my connection, id call and set up the tour, which circa 25 yrs ago ran $60 per person .. of that $60, $15 per person was required as a ‘deposit’.. that deposit was actually my commission.. so that $15 x 4 = $60 went directly into my pocket.. repeat that a few times per night , in addition to the other tours (Plantation tours, Cemetary tours, Steamboat Natchez dinner rides et al) and the $5 tips for hauling luggage, along with cab drivers who would give me a $5 cut of their $21 airport fare if i called them (there was one cab drivers named Fred who would give me $6) and end of the night I’d walk out typically with $350-$400 in my pocket.. in the mid/late 1990s when that actually wasnt an insignificant chunk of change….. of course, my shift was 3pm-11pm and when i got off of work i was 20 yrs old and i was exactly 16 steps off of BOURBON STREET……….. What could possibly go wrong ??