About half of what I'm doing now is bank and financial fraud. It's pretty boring shit.
About half of what I'm doing now is bank and financial fraud. It's pretty boring shit.
It's not my money. And most of it is usually either in the cayman islands or in a 2007 BMW and a oversized house.
Question: Would a dancer run into problems applying to law school? For example, being asked to explain a few years of "self-employed" income?
As far as applying to law school: none at all. Just fluff your resume a ton. List your occupation as performing artist or something like that. And really, I doubt they would care.
As far as getting a job goes ... I couldn't say. It seems like it could go either way.





^^^ welcome back Blackstone ! Yes I agree that law schools would gladly take the tuition money of almost every qualified applicant regardless of their previous career history. But as you point out, it is the potential future employers that may take issue with a 'sex industry' background when an ex-'stripper' with a freshly earned JD applies for work.
I've got a new subject for you ... which I know the answers to in my own personal situation, but which others may be curious about. That subject is the remaining legal IRS tax obligations when living as an ex-pat.
There should be more rhetoric on this site for creating defenses to crazy city council ords and retorts to fools carrying crosses speaking lies with statistics.





how about the IRS 'foreign income exclusion' that Tim Geithner so famously walked a tightrope with ?
I think Geithner's situation had more to do with the organizations he worked for. Essentially, he was classified as an independant contractor for tax purposes (something you all should be familiar with.) I'm not sure why they did it that way, either. Anyhow, their deal was that, rather than having SS and Medicare taxes deducted, he had to pay them out of pocket, and then they would reimburse when he sent them his tax forms. Instead, he used Turbotax, and typed in that he was an employee rather than a contractor. This was the problem, because turbo tax noticed that no income tax was witheld and prompted him to pay that. However, it did not ask about other taxes that are generally deducted from a paycheck. Hence, the scandal.
I'm not really sure if it makes that much of a difference. You don't expect he CEO of Ford to be able to rebuild a transmission. The CEO of Goldman Sachs would similarly be shitty bank teller. I can barely operate the office copy machine.
Whether or not Geithner can operate TurboTax correctly is so far removed from his actual responsibilities that I'm pretty sure it doesn't matter. And the guy paid the same late fees as anyone else would have.




Can you answer legal questions that aren't related to taxes or finances?
If you are willing to do for one year what other's won't, you can spend a lifetime doing what other's cant.
Hey Sia - I am in law school now. I haven't had any issues with me being a dancer at all. Even on the bar application forms etc where you have to list your employment, it only asks for legally related employment, or if you worked the job for more than 6 mo. I've worked roughly that long, so I was like, ehhh leave it off.
Being a dancer would show up in background checks with tax forms etc, ie if you worked for the government or something, but even then I wouldn't worry too much about it. If it would be an issue, you probably wouldn't want to work there anyways.
I just don't tell people at school what my "other" job is, since I work at a law office part time. There are a lot of conservative up-tight people in law school, and the gossip is worse than middle school, so I wouldn't advertise a background in dancing.




My Mom is a Registered Nurse in the state of Michigan and has a "failure to protect" charge from CPS on her record that she is supposed to get expunged in December. She got pulled over on Halloween and blew a .314. Her 22-month-old son was in the car. They took her to jail and said they were charging her with a DUI and child endangerment. At her arraignment they dropped the DUI down to driving while impaired.
Aside from the failure to protect charge she doesn't have a (convicted) criminal history. I know that she'll be found guilty of these additional charges, but I want to know what her chances of getting her nursing license taken away will be. She hasn't worked in about 6 months and she got a letter in the mail saying her driver's license is suspended.
What type of punishment do you think she'll get? Do you think her nursing license will be revoked?
If you are willing to do for one year what other's won't, you can spend a lifetime doing what other's cant.
Woah, now that's way out of my league.
As far as the child endangerment stuff, she should get a lawyer to represent her ASAP. Michigan has sentencing guidelines online. You can go look at the guidelines, plug in her criminal history and what she's done, and get an estimated sentence. I have no idea if judges in michigan follow the guidelines or not.
For the nursing license, I'd really have no way to know. I couldn't tell you if whatever nursing review board in Mich is a bunch of hardasses or not.




I'm not saying she doesn't deserve it, I just rely on her right now and I need to know if I should start making other arrangements.
If you are willing to do for one year what other's won't, you can spend a lifetime doing what other's cant.
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