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    I did a search and read a bunch of threads, but most of them were about dancer licenses showing up, which I've never had.

    But my very first job in the industry was bartending and doing promotions at a corporate SC. And they kept records. I got a W2 one year for bartending. When I switched to promotions I was considered an independent contractor--I was never given a 1099 or any other tax form, but I did get several checks from the company, and they did have my SSN and stuff on file. They use a legit-sounding business name--you know how some clubs have "XYZ Inc." on their checks and receipts and such. But I typed their business name into Google and it's apparently really easy to find out that it's an SC chain.

    Anyway, I'm in school and I desperately want to work in pediatrics. So I'm freaking out about the possibility of that job coming up on a background search, especially bc I'd be working with kids. How likely is it that this would come back to haunt me on a background check?

    I have no dancer licenses, no criminal record at all...but I'm paranoid about that one stupid job showing up on a background check and screwing me out of my dream career.
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    Sounds touchy... there are some really knowledgeable people on here when it comes to things like this, so maybe they can help you out. I hope everything works out for you.
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    these days, where running background checks on prospective employees, any job opening involving 'other people's bodies, other people's money, other people's children' etc. is going to include a higher level of scrutiny than a regular job. Collectively, these sort of jobs are classified as involving the 'public trust' ... and where 'public trust' jobs are concerned the prospective employee is going to be subjected to a criminal background check, an IRS check, a credit check, a reference check, and a previous employer check / verification, at minimum.

    So there is no question that the existance of the W2 from a 'strip club chain' is going to turn up during that background check. Whether or not the prospective employer knows it's a 'strip club chain', they are going to be looking for a resume' entry corresponding to that W2. They are also going to be under 'public trust' pressure to determine that the prospective employee has been 100% truthful on their resume' and during interviews.

    This leaves you with a dilemma. You can come clean and list the 'strip club chain' on your resume' ... explaining the type of work you did ... and hope that it won't matter that much to the prospective employer. Or you can 'forget' to include the 'strip club chain' on your resume', and hope that the prospective employer doesn't pick up on the omission. If they do pick up on the omission, though, before or even after you are hired, you're probably screwed. The worst that happens with the former is that you don't get hired. With the latter you wind up running the risk of being fired after the fact ... something that will be extremely hard to explain to other prospective 'public trust' job employers.

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    I worked in a "public trust" field within Melonie's definitions. I had both stripper licenses and W-2/1099 from various strip clubs. Whether they came up or whether they did not, no one mentioned anything and I passed all of the background checks with no problem. The most recent one of these was in the last 2 months...I've had 4 total. So...I think you will be ok.

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    Years ago I worked at a club that paid me by check (including taking taxes out). I believe I was listed as "entertainer" as well. Since then I've worked a high clearance government job, and as a substitute teachers and both did heavy duty background check. As far as I know this never showed up because it was never mentioned.

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    Thanks so much KS Stevia and Kellydancer; I was hoping for input from people who had 'been there and done that'.

    Melonie: I appreciate that you took the time to respond. But you are off base with regard to putting down an SC job on a resume. Professional resumes are only supposed to include relevant work experience--previous jobs that are related to that profession. Waitressing jobs and any other sort of menial/unskilled work, regardless of location, do not belong on a professional resume.

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    ^^^ again the decision to 'omit' supposedly non-relevant work from a resume' ... while commonly done in the past ... does not eliminate the possibility that an employer could consider such work extremely relevant. This happened to an 'acquaintance' of mine a couple of years ago.


    (snip)"Louisa C. Tuck is a teachers aide at D’Ippolito Elementary School in Vineland, New Jersey. She was hired in June and earns $5,772 a year for performing playground aide duties and working in the cafeteria. She also works with kids at Vineland’s YMCA. Tuck had a little secret that has recently come to light – the fact that five years ago she was making adult films under the name Crystal Gunns.

    It is unclear how school officials found out about Tuck’s past but their first instincts were to fire her. New Jersey Board of Education legal advisers have cautioned Board of Education president Frank Giordano that there is no legal basis for terminating Tuck.

    Superintendent Charles Ottinger, who is of the same mindset as Giordano, says they have been advised against firing the teachers aide, “Not that we don’t want to.”

    As Crystal Gunns, Tuck starred in adult-oriented movies in solo performances and posed for multiple racy photo shoots. She was showcased in Score magazine on numerous occasions and has been involved in at least three adult videos."(snip)

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    The point here is that my 'acquaintance' chose to leave her non-relevant past experience off her job application in order to be hired for a 'public trust' position as a teaching assistant after retiring from exotic dancing / the web. When her past experiences as a feature dancer / adult website etc. were eventually discovered several months after she was hired, a major fiasco ensued. After local news media informed everyone in her home town of her past "adult industry" activities, she wound up voluntarily resigning rather than facing a potential court case and yet more unwanted publicity.

    However, after the major fiasco and resulting local publicity, my 'acquaintance' now has zero chance of working in a 'public trust' position again ... short of permanently relocating to a different state at minimum. Fortunately, she had not invested the additional time and money to obtain a bachelors / masters degree that would have been rendered more or less unusable as the result of the fiasco.

    In this particular situation, my 'acquaintance' was ultimately at fault had a court case over her firing been allowed to develop - since she chose to 'conceal' her past experience in the exotic dancing / adult web industry from her employer. Had she listed such past experience on her job application, even in a 'sanitized' form, then the school district would have been legally at risk instead.

    Also, where 'public trust' jobs requiring professional licenses are involved ( which I experienced myself as I am a licensed Respiratory Therapist in NY and NJ ), choosing to 'conceal' an exotic dancing / adult web background can be used as grounds to permanently revoke said professional license if and when such exotic dancing / adult web background were to come to the attention of the licensing authority. However, if that exotic dancing / adult web background was listed on the professional license application, even in 'sanitized' form, this risk factor is removed. And from a real world standpoint, absent a club bust / criminal record entry stemming from past exotic dancing / adult web activities, the licensing authority could really care less ( they just want their $500 or whatever licensing fee).

    I guess the larger point is that our world gets 'smaller' every day, making it ever more likely that a past 'paper trail' of exotic dancing / adult web activities is going to be discovered by someone, at some time. As others have posted, and as was indeed the case with my 'acquaintance', omitting past exotic dancing / adult web experience from a 'public trust' job application is generally not problematic in regard to initially getting hired. But the risk going forward is that, at some point in the future and by whatever means, that past exotic dancing / adult web background will come to the attention of the 'public trust' employer ... resulting in unknown future consequences. However, choosing to list a past exotic dancing / adult web background, even in 'sanitized' form, while potentially raising some questions during prospective 'public trust' job interviews and/or professional license interviews, also 'clears the deck' in regard to potential future backlash.

    Will the voluntary listing of past exotic dancing / adult web experience wind up causing some prospective 'public trust' job employers to choose not to hire someone ... probably ! But by the same token, those 'public trust' job employers who are deeply concerned about an employee having a past exotic dancing / adult web background are precisely the type of employers who would create a major ( and potentially career-ending ) fiasco should that background come to light after the person with a past exotic dancing / adult web background had already been hired. IMHO, and in the obvious experience of my 'acquaintance', choosing to 'conceal' an exotic dancing / adult web background from a potential 'public trust' job employer is simply no longer worth the rising risk factor.

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