HELP: How Extensive Are Hiring Background Checks?

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So, I'm a Nursing Student and recently in addition to my waitressing job, I started doing like camgirl stuff online. Do you think I could be fired as a RN in the future? Or it could come up in a background check and hinder my employment majorly? I've made over $400 on the camming website so I'm required to file taxes eventually and I guess I'm just scared I could lose my RN license one day. I just don't want anything to jeopardize my dream but I also would like to be able to stay in school so I can reach it. I realize now I jumped into this head first before really thinking of the consequences, but now I need to decide to continue doing it or stopping.

I guess any general advice would be wonderful to ease (or fuel) my anxiety. Thank you!

Specializes in M/S, LTC, Corrections, PDN & drug rehab.
Whoa. Saying that she's acting like a whore is taking a bit too far. All opinions have a right to be heard, but that doesn't mean that there's no holding back. Please have some tact :no:

She has two options, stop or don't & chose a different career path. If she brags about her current job it doesn't make her look any better. Bragging doesn't make her look good in my eyes. I don't know of any hiring manager that wouldn't think the same.

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Last time I checked, this was a public forum full of strangers. Who mentioned anything about her "caring", about what I thought? If you don't like the way I worded MY comment, SO WHAT.

The OP is well aware of scholarships, financial aid, loans, working extra shifts and saving money. She is also aware of the issues she would face if exposed. Posters have done a good job stating this. As I said, if she wants to continue to degrade herself, have sex online and can only make $400 or even $4,000 dollars----let her. What parent would be proud? Employers have fired people for a lot less. If she keeps it up, it can damage her personal and professional life.

No judging here. This is the world we live in. Like it or not. It is what it is.

Have a good night!

Lol just stop saying that you aren't judging because that is exactly what you're doing!

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She has two options, stop or don't & chose a different career path. If she brags about her current job it doesn't make her look any better. Bragging doesn't make her look good in my eyes. I don't know of any hiring manager that wouldn't think the same.

How was she "bragging"?... And regardless, you STILL should not have said that she was acting like a whore. That was completely out of line!

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Specializes in M/S, LTC, Corrections, PDN & drug rehab.
I'm still an unabashed weirdo in my thirties. I was a Thespian in high school, and loved theatre as a hobby all my life. I've come out of make up in a wig and had my dear friends not recognize me in person. It's actually pretty easy to do. In fact, I think there is a buzz feed article on what Media stars look like without their make up. Check it out.

I said wig, NOT theater make up & a wig.

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How was she "bragging"?... And regardless, you STILL should not have said that she was acting like a whore. That was completely out of line!

She is not doing anything to help her future nursing career. She could be working as an aide, tech etc & making connections. Does it pay as well? No, but she can get scholarships, grants & financial aid. If she *really* wants to be a nurse she would not do something as immature as this to make money. I understand she needs money but she either A) isn't serious about being a nurse or B) likes the attention & money more than nursing.

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Who said sex is shameful? Sex is about human connection. Abusing that and degrading one's own humanity by turning it into a paid commodity is something that lots of people are never going to be okay with. I thought we aspired, as a society, to move beyond women having to find worth only in their sexual availability.

In any case, from a practical standpoint, the OP asked if this could damage her future employability as a nurse, and the answer that, like it or not, is yes.

All the people stating that the OP is doing something shameful. She's providing a service that others are willing to pay for. She has the power of control over what she does and the power of consent. She's not being forced to do it. I don't expect people to agree with me on this, because I know that cultural norms say that is wrong. It just concerns me because this is part of the culture that leads to things like victim shaming to sexual assault victims, teen pregnancy, and the whole gamer gate movement where women were threatened because of our cultural views on sexuality.

Yes, it could potentially effect her. Anything could potentially effect us. Some of the things pointed out though were promoted unrealistically though. Public record tell all sites, for example are only able to get information the person themselves gives out. We got most of our information from things like people applying for credit cards or shoppers cards with the occasional court record thrown in.

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She is not doing anything to help her future nursing career. She could be working as an aide, tech etc & making connections. Does it pay as well? No, but she can get scholarships, grants & financial aid. If she *really* wants to be a nurse she would not do something as immature as this to make money. I understand she needs money but she either A) isn't serious about being a nurse or B) likes the attention & money more than nursing.

See had you just said that, you would have been providing HELPFUL insight to the OP's problem! See how easy that was? And A) you still didn't say how she was bragging and B) do you still not realize that you were wrong for calling her out her name?

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Hmm ...performing sexually for money? There's another word for that and it's not 'camming' Unless that is the new slang.

Need money for school? Keep your clothes on and get a student loan.

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All the people stating that the OP is doing something shameful. She's providing a service that others are willing to pay for. She has the power of control over what she does and the power of consent. She's not being forced to do it. I don't expect people to agree with me on this, because I know that cultural norms say that is wrong. It just concerns me because this is part of the culture that leads to things like victim shaming to sexual assault victims, teen pregnancy, and the whole gamer gate movement where women were threatened because of our cultural views on sexuality.

Yes, it could potentially effect her. Anything could potentially effect us. Some of the things pointed out though were promoted unrealistically though. Public record tell all sites, for example are only able to get information the person themselves gives out. We got most of our information from things like people applying for credit cards or shoppers cards with the occasional court record thrown in.

Like I stated, I sent the photo on my own, no one forced me. But then it went out. The same could happen to her. It's technology, things spread like wildfire & like wildfire it devastates everything it touches.

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It never ceases to amaze me when these threads come up, how women selling themselves sexually gets defended as empowering. They literally treat themselves like pieces of meat, whose only value is their sex appeal, and yet those of us who have a problem with that are somehow disempowering women. I thought our mothers fought so we could be valued for our brains and our achievements.

That said, she has the legal right to do it. It just may cost her what she says she wants in the future.

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Like I stated, I sent the photo on my own, no one forced me. But then it went out. The same could happen to her. It's technology, things spread like wildfire & like wildfire it devastates everything it touches.

You didn't give then consent to share it. That is a huge thing, and yet you were the one punished and somehow people think that's OK and it's not. People will still say you should of never taken it and that it was your fault. I'm sorry someone did something like this to you.

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It never ceases to amaze me when these threads come up, how women selling themselves sexually gets defended as empowering. They literally treat themselves like pieces of meat, whose only value is their sex appeal, and yet those of us who have a problem with that are somehow disempowering women. I thought our mothers fought so we could be valued for our brains and our achievements.

That said, she has the legal right to do it. It just may cost her what she says she wants in the future.

There is a wonderful comic out there that explains the difference between empowered and objectified

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