10 Macho Dancers I Met in Cebu - 2. Dropout

#2. Dropout.

Sadly, for every 'Billy' Macho Dancer who successfully finishes college, there are 8 to 9 dancers who do not.  The rate of success for a macho dancer finishing college is less than 10%.  Well this is kinda obvious if you look at the ages of the current dancers.  The interesting thing though is that majority of Cebu Macho Dancers (at least those I met) have reached college level, so they were already there.

This is inspired by "Drake".

Our night-time model/dancers-day-time students were mostly unsuccessful for several reasons.  My guess, the number 1 reason is the promise of instant good money.  The logic goes like this: you study to get a good-paying job in the future.  But they already are earning really good money.  So why continue studies?  Especially when they start to realize that the minimum wage in Cebu City is 38P per hour.  Their commission from one macho drink they can down in 3 minutes cost almost twice that.

Another reason (maybe) is still related to money.  Obviously, the serious money in gay bars happen when the gay bar closes at 3am.  The money from customer service after bar closes on average is greater than what a regular macho dancer earns from "dancing" between 9pm-3am.  So, a 2-hour customer service > 6-hour bar dancing service and definitely > 8-hour minimum wage.  So attending an Economics class from 7-8am starts to become a question of 'what for' if you have a Korean customer who texted and already waiting at Allure Hotel willing to pay extra.

Then the cycle continues until they start to be perennial absentees in class...eventually dropping out.

I guess no one really spoke to our Macho Dancer-college students about the future and the long-term. Everything becomes short-term, the now, and the easy money.  So the value of college education may have diminished especially when they start to earn thousands a night.

Not judging...just citing the possible reasons why things that happened happened.  But if we want to judge, maybe that would be for the macho dancer #3. Jerome - alleged drug addict and swindler...to be continued.