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    Lightbulb How explain previous work history on RESUME????

    Ive heard that there is a way to make the income you make during ones time as a dancer look "legitimate". I guess it would require an accountants expertise. I was wondering if there are dancers who have mastered this method each year in order to pay taxes and also to show a future employer that they have been legitmately employed during thier time dancing.
    I have usually stated I am self employed on my resume, but I know that employers do routine background checks ,and wondering if any dancer has advice to give to look good for thier future employers????

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    Well I have had a lot of different jobs so this doesn't affect me much but I am a legitimite tax-paying dancer and in Australia this requires having an ABN (Australian Business Number) which states on it that I am an entertainer.
    A lot of people lie on their resume so you could just be vague or say that you owned your own entertainment business. If you dont want to say you were doing stripping/exotic dancing maybe you could say burlesque or just regular dancing - night club podium etc.

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    Right now I'm still in school, so I've got my time accounted for on paper until August 2008 (when I graduate.) I also get a few scattered gigs as a contortionist and aerialist, so I plan on fudging a bit on paper and saying that I do that full-time. (hey, pole dancing is close enough to aerial arts! I can count my time in the club as just another aerialist gig Semantics.) After I graduate college, I plan to do a professional training program at a circus school in Australia, so again--time accounted for on paper with education.

    Other girls I know that dance have used some pretty creative ideas. One put down that she was self-employed and worked as a professional organizer. Another was a licensed massage therapist who worked at a spa two days a week...and she put on her resume that she practiced as a self-employed therapist also. Another one speaks fluent French and Spanish, and put down that she was self-employed as a private language tutor. Another girl's father, who is/was self-employed as a mortgage salesperson, put her on his payroll. (Their surnames are different, due to divorce and her adopting her mother's maiden name as well, so he just looks like a regular employer that she works for as a "personal assistant"--on a resume, no one even has to know it's her father.)

    Basically any skill you have that you could plausibly use as a self-employed person can be used for resumes. It helps if you have part-time work practicing that skill with a real company for at least some period of time (like the massage therapist; she had work at a legit spa, and no one ever questions her when she claims to work at it 40 hours a week, mostly freelance.)

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    Unless you want to lie about what you were doing, I have no clue why you feel compelled to put dancing or some euphemism on your resume in the first place...

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    Quote Originally Posted by TheSexKitten View Post
    Unless you want to lie about what you were doing, I have no clue why you feel compelled to put dancing or some euphemism on your resume in the first place...
    In most situations, you do need SOME sort of plausible explanation to account for your time. If you dance for five years and then try to get a "straight" job, how would YOU answer a prospective employer when s/he asked you what you'd been doing during those five years?

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    Studying, if you were....

    Or put something simple like you guys said! I might be mistaken, I thought she just got out of school.

    What do you do if you have a license for it? Employers don't usually serach to see all your licenses, do they?

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    Quote Originally Posted by Picaresque View Post
    In most situations, you do need SOME sort of plausible explanation to account for your time. If you dance for five years and then try to get a "straight" job, how would YOU answer a prospective employer when s/he asked you what you'd been doing during those five years?
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    I just switch dancing for bartending.

    It works for me.

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    Default Re: How explain previous work history on RESUME????

    If you are going to lie, lie in a way that the prospective employer can't follow up on. For instance, say you worked as a small business person (Mary Kay or Avon or Ebay). That way there would be no supervisor to call for references as the people who work in those businesses are independent- Just like dancers.

    Be honest on your taxes. All you need to put in the "occupation" section of your tax return is Entertainer. Your prospective employer won't have access to your prior tax returns unless you give it to him/her.

    As a side note, I just figured out that I paid $14,000 in house fees and tip outs alone last year. I'm glad those are tax deductible.


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