I'm going to school to be an RN, and now that SM issues the 1099, I know Streamate is on my background check. Does anyone know how this will affect a career in the medical field?
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I'm going to school to be an RN, and now that SM issues the 1099, I know Streamate is on my background check. Does anyone know how this will affect a career in the medical field?
I am wondering myself as well...
I have a friend who is a male nurse and he knows that I have been a stripper in the past and that I am now camming. So, we had this conversation not very long ago. I myself am not interested in nursing school, but I have another stripper friend who recently started, so I asked him about this and the response was not positive :( anyway, he showed me this: http://nursinglink.monster.com/benef...comment_page=2 there are several things in that but the one pertinent to camming is this one:
8. Hosting a Pornographic Website
"Believe it or not – it happens. Just this last year, a nurse in Pennsylvania got her licensed revoked because she was hosting her own pornographic website. This most likely falls under “Unprofessional Conduct,” and it’s easy to chuckle at. But with today’s advancements in technology, and the widespread range of the internet, nurses who use their webcams to do a little work on a side may find themselves without a job."
Time to think about what business I'm going to start...
There are many nurses who use to be porn stars nina Hartley just got her PHD and Sharon Mitchelle. I wouldn't let a little website blog discourage you.
Damn, that's harsh. Now I'm glad I didn't go back to school for my Masters in Nursing!
Although if you're already enrolled in a program, could you think about becoming a private nurse? When I was in college I worked as a private companion for an elderly lady who lived in a nursing home. I got paid $2,000/month off the books working 30 hours a week, and my "work" consisted of watching TV and playing checkers with her. I'm sure if you're an RN you could make a killing working privately for someone wealthy, and they probably won't care as much about your camming background.
Yeah, I still plan to definitely get my education, but I also want to have a back-up plan. Who knows, maybe I can say that I did affiliate marketing for them or something?
^ yeah like home health. That's where the money is at anyway
This is something to think about but I am going with Minnie's response. I am going to school for medical assistant!
right now i am in the proccess of becoming a midwife, I remember when I lost to two BS jobs at a call centre and a movie threatre, if I was a full employee or had the energy or money I would have sued them both. society claims we are suppose to get out of the sex trade and get real jobs. well helllo some of those real jobs are espensive becasue of the type of education you need for them. who really wants to be neck high in student loans to pay for an education that society claims is acceptable.
moving forward if my past decides to come out again i am well prepared to sue anyone and any association who has a problem with it.
More power to you and that is true. All these student loans and debt for someone to say that I have an acceptable job. This is the 2nd time someone brought up the private nursing option to me. I actually heard that there is good money pursuing that avenue as well.
^^ Exactly. "Get out of sex work and work a respectable job, but, uh, we won't hire you at our respectable job if you ever did it." Uhhh... what?
Then also when you do get those society approved respectable jobs you pretty much have to forget that being in the sex trade is what got you there.
I live very close to Beverly Hills and not far from Calabasas! Great money making areas for private nurses. I will look into after school. I need to do it soon because I am now 40 years old. No spring chicken! lol
can you sue an employer if they fire you or refuse to hire you because you fall under the category of "sex worker"? isn't that discrimination against sex workers?
and does it matter if it is a public or private employer. i'll probably be working in state or local government if i ever use my degree.
thanks!
I don't think any smart employer would refuse to hire you and flat out tell you it's because of your background in the adult industry. They would find a much more clever way to not hire you... sad but true. There are probably dozens of others that would be applying for the same jobs, it's easy to find someone else "more qualified". It would be VERY hard to prove that you were not hired for the sole reason that you were in the adult business.
^Yes. I would not recommend adult work for anyone whose dream is to be a teacher, doctor, nurse, politician, etc. There is too much of a stigma attached to this work. If you need a job that gives you a comparable amount of cash, maybe look into bartending, waitressing, etc.
I plan on going into healthcare and camming on the side. There will always be sick people and aging baby boomers. Like the above posters said, do private home health care if you don't get hired at a hospital for whatever reason. If something does come up you can say you worked in Marketing, Communications, or Customer Relations.
If you want to be a nurse, don't go into the adult industry. Or vice versa. You often work with kids, and that's a big reason why they are not tolerant of sexworkers or ex-sexworkers. If it shows up on your background check, they WILL ask you about it in an interview. And they may just disqualify you for the position without you ever knowing if they see it. In addition, once you're working a nurse, they can fire you for it and likely will when it comes out. Its just not worth living in fear and spending all that money in hopes that you never get caught when many do.
However, if you become something like a beauty nurse, you might be okay. You would develop & bring your own clientele to the plastic surgeon's or esthetics office, and you never work with children (only 18+). Pretty much anything that requires you to work with even a small amount of children, will fire you for a background in sexwork. Facts are facts.
There's a reason why this career pays so much. Its because it limits your future employment. You can't have your cake and eat it too. You can't work with children in any way or take any leadership role where you must set a good example to younger people (i.e. politics). Every girl seems to think she's the exception to the rule, when its just not the case. "But I'll never get found out!" "There's no way they won't hire me!" Lots of women get found out through the dumbest, most inconceivable ways out of their control. And in an economy where 50+ people usually apply for the same 1 position, they are LOOKING for ways to disqualify people. Considering pornography is on the list of things they won't hire, lying or hiding your past is doing a disservice to yourself, unless your goal is to end up with your real name and stage name in the media when you are found out. Try getting ANY job after that happens.
Thanks goodness I don't like kids or working with them. I plan on working in nursing homes for the elderly. I can put up with older people better than I can younger. Lots of people now stay home and have a nurse come in. I love that. They did it for my grandmother.
To the OP it is possible it will cause problems but whatever you decide to do complete your education. I may bitch about my student loans, but my college experience was invaluable in terms of personal growth, and I actually use more of what I learned in this job than I di in any of the BS corporate ones I had.
If you still want to work in the adult industry maybe something like PSO would be better. It may be easier to cover up. Though now information is so much harder to hide, you never can tell. If you really want to be a nurse you may have to make a choice. It's not fair, but it's the reality of our work.
I actually have a degree in Respiratory Therapy ... which like Nursing requires a 'professional license'. I was indeed fined and officially reprimanded by my state's professional licensing authority for 'unprofessional conduct'. While this doesn't prevent me from working as an RT again, it DOES make the fact that I was involved in the 'adult entertainment industry' immediately apparent to any would-be employer who checks on the status of my professional license. In practical terms, this basically means that I could still work treating patients in prison hospitals, at inner city clinics etc. which have poor working conditions thus a huge shortage of RT's ( in fact I wound up catching TB from a patient who was a prisoner - which 'sidelined' me from working as an RT for several months thus prompting me to become a full time adult entertainer ! ) ... and near zero chance of working for a private hospital, a home care company, a 'religious' hospital etc. where the better pay rate and better working conditions provide the prospective employers with a surplus of RT job applicants.Quote:
This most likely falls under “Unprofessional Conduct,” and it’s easy to chuckle at. But with today’s advancements in technology, and the widespread range of the internet, nurses who use their webcams to do a little work on a side may find themselves without a job."
Especially in today's age of 1099 reports to the IRS and to state tax agencies by adult webcam hosts and strip clubs, state professional licensing agencies are now very likely to be 'automatically' informed that a licensee with social security number X is working / has worked in the 'adult entertainment' industry. And given the terrible budget deficits in most states, the professional licensing agencies are virtually guaranteed to try and relieve that deficit slightly by imposing hefty fines on professional license holders whose 1099's show they have engaged in 'unprofessional conduct' - with the by-product being a 'black mark' on their professional license that can and will affect future employment opportunities for the rest of their lives. In some ways, i.e. potential negative effects on future 'straight job' employers, this is directly equivalent in result to an exotic dancer being ( bogusly ) busted and receiving a 'black mark' on her criminal record.
Viewed objectively, if you are considering investing years worth of effort and tens ( or hundreds ) of thousands of dollars in tuition money to become a licensed health care professional ( or any other type of licensed professional for that matter i.e. attorney, engineer, accountant, teacher etc. ), you may indeed want to weigh the short term financial benefits of webcam / strip club earnings against the potential long term negative effects of creating a 'paper trail' of adult industry work = 'unprofessional conduct'. As others have already pointed out, the comparatively high earnings potential available from 'adult industry' work is, at least in part, a result of the a 'real world' trade-off that will negatively affect future employment opportunities / earnings potential in other industries.
Ironically, the new IRS requirements for 1099 reporting by webcam hosts ( even foreign ones ) and strip clubs ... which now provides an automatic means for state professional licensing authorities to be informed of 'adult industry work' by license holders ... stems directly from the new US National Health Care law !!!
Where licensed professionals are concerned, having an official reprimand for 'unprofessional conduct' clipped to the 'first page' of their professional license file provides a legally valid reason for an employer to 'fire' that licensed professional as long as the employer's published employment policy includes a 'business ethics' aka 'morals' clause ( which virtually all straight job employers now include ). And where pre-employment screenings and background checks are concerned, no reason needs to be provided by the prospective employer for turning down any given job applicant outside of 'protected classes' i.e. race, creed, sex etc.Quote:
can you sue an employer if they fire you or refuse to hire you because you fall under the category of "sex worker"? isn't that discrimination against sex workers?
Also, legally speaking, 'adult industry' work is treated very differently from straight jobs. Were it actually treated equally under the law, some very unpopular side effects would take place ... for example unemployed Nevada women being denied unemployment benefits because they refused to accept an available job at the Bunny Ranch, or unemployed New York women being denied unemployment benefits because they refused to accept an available job as a peep show nude model !!! This legal issue was actually litigated under international law, as the result of 100% legal brothel owners in Germany having to pay into the unemployment system, wanting the gov't unemployment office to refer 'qualified' unemployed women to them, and wanting the payment of unemployment benefits denied to those 'qualified' unemployed women if they were offered employment as 100% legal prostitutes but refused.
Now they even want to do background checks on Receptionist jobs!!!! That is crazy! Just check Craigslist!! It is harder to get a job nowadays! Phonesex is an option now from what I see on youtube!