Shakeboard Dancing
May 29, 2008
So my first day of work was yesterday, unfortunately I missed out on my little sisters birthday dinner because of it. Man, shakeboard dancing is a lot harder then it sounded! You have to dance…for 4 hours straight! And hold the sign! It’s a bit ridiculous really, at least the responses people give are entertaining.
Some people rolled up their windows and refused to make eye contact, other people laughed at us (or with us because we KNEW how ridiculous we looked) and eventually ended up getting pizza. One guy was crossing the road and heard us singing and dancing, and when he came back from the mall he had pizza. “Well you girls sure may not sing very well, but you convinced me to get a pizza anyway!” was what he said as he walked by. Haha.
Anyways, I’ve got a million things to do before going back to shakeboard dancing work. Such as bitch about it because its SO painful on my already aching bones! Oh well…I keep telling myself that it’s 14 bucks an hour and I’ll get through it.
Hopefully someone will get footage of me shakeboard dancing so I can put it up for y’all.
May 29th, 2008 at 11:56 am
Yeah, we definitely need to see some video of that. Can’t you get Booth to go by and record it?
May 29th, 2008 at 3:39 pm
Funny you should mention this. Here in AZ, they’re called Human Directionals. Last year, my BF was the mgr over the Phoenix area and was responsible for hiring the teens. She needed assistants to monitor certain areas, so I drove around my designated area, made sure the kids showed up on time, weren’t sitting down on the job, and had enough water. Because, y’know, it’s AZ in the middle of summer.
You’re right, the pay is very good for such a little amount of time. But they had to work up to that amount. I think the starting pay was $10 with potential earnings of up to $14. One kid had been doing it for a few years, starting out when he was like 14 or something. Other kids we hired crapped out after about a week or so because 1) IT WAS DAMN HOT! and 2) you’re on your feet. It’s not for everybody. The money is good because you really have to work for it. Some kids don’t realize that.
I didn’t do it for very long (mileage on the car and all that), but it gave me a story idea for one of the books in the series. Good luck and be careful.
May 29th, 2008 at 3:40 pm
keep up that dancing
i am sure u are really good at it..
May 29th, 2008 at 11:24 pm
I hope it isn’t too much on your aching bones! At least it’s temporary though.
But footage would be pretty awesome.
May 30th, 2008 at 11:36 am
lol. ive some kids on the corner doing this. i didnt realize it was called shakeboard dancing though. some of these kids are good, though! they’ll whip it around their bodies, over there heads, twirl it like a staff…it’s pretty funny. and entertaining. someone really does need to record that stuff.
June 2nd, 2008 at 10:10 am
At least a photo! Come on!