What I Learned From Go-Go Dancing My Way Through College

Besides That Non-Go-Go Dancing People Don’t Generally Like Go-Go Dancers

60s style Go-go dancing may evoke a girl in tall white boots and a day-glo mini dress; but it evolved into something completely different by the time the 90s rolled around.

I haven’t written a ton about go-go dancing my way through school, because for a long time, I was kind of embarrassed about it.

But I worked as a real deal New Jersey go-go dancer from about 1996 to 2001.

Here I am, age 18.

I was 18 years old when I ventured out to L.A. to meet my dad, who I didn’t grow up with and hadn’t seen for a few years, and visit the West Coast for the first time.

It was kind of a disaster and a very lonely chapter in my life.

Photos taken around this time show me looking how I felt.

I quickly ran low on money and with what I had left, bought a decrepit but sturdy Volvo and drove back to my old familiar East Coast to be with my mom and go to college, with her help.