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!

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:

In fairness, she was responding to another person's post, another person's use of the phrase. She didn't bring it to the conversation....she was responding to it:

With that said could we please refrain from treating her like the whore of babylon ?

Kinda hard to not treat her like the whore of Babylon when that's what she's acting like.

Ok....back to regular programming....

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I managed to NOT read this thread since I last posted a few days ago; MY how it's blossomed!

Said it before, will say it again: Makes NO difference what ANY of us think about online Media. It's there. Makes NO difference what ANY of us think about how that should or should not affect employment prospects. It will be determined by each employer, in the end.

If doing the Media is worth the risk of not being employed at some point in a job you really want....then go for it. Just don't say you weren't warned if it happens, that's all.

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Wow, my first. I do want to answer the OP original question which is how thorough are background investigations? They can be surprisingly thorough. For example, working as a nurse at the VA requires a FBI background investigation.

the biggest hurdle is the written application which asks for ALL of your employers, dates of employment and your position title.

Resist the temptation to omit the camming company from the list. Intentional omission can have consequences years down the road.

Recommendations:

Stop the camming ASAP

If you ever apply for a federal position, include the camming work but be vague in the description. Example: " 1/1/15 to 5/1/15 XYZ Enterprises, Intermittent, Customer Service, Videography". Hopefully no one asks about it. More important, you didn't lie on your application.

As a previous poster has described, it is is the spiteful actions of other people who may throw you a curve ball years down the road

Good luck to you.

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I'm pretty conservative with my *own* personal life, but take a pretty liberal view of human sexuality in general. I'm not about to jump on the OP for her choices even if I wouldn't do this myself. - - - - - -

I wasn't really familiar with what this line of work entails until I happened upon a particular book. Ok so there's obviously a lot more going on in this book and I'm not sure how accurate the portrayals of camming are, but I found it interesting nonetheless (and it was free when I stumbled upon it). One of the reviews said it was more along the lines of Girl With a Dragon Tattoo than Fifty Shades (neither of which I have read). Just thought I'd post a link to it in case someone wanted to read a book about this particular subject. It was not my typical genre but I did actually kinda like it. ----------

Here's the link. And OP, I hope it works out for you whatever you decide to do.

The Girl in 6E (A Deanna Madden Novel Book 1) - Kindle edition by A. R. Torre. Literature & Fiction Kindle eBooks @ Amazon.com.

ETA : So sadly excited I *finally* figured out how to use paragraphs on my phone! (I am obviously easily amused and excited.....) ;)

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In fairness, she was responding to another person's post, another person's use of the phrase. She didn't bring it to the conversation....she was responding to it:

Ok....back to regular programming....

Whether she brought it into the conversation or not, she STILL said she was acting like a whore and that is NOT okay. There's no excuse for that.

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Whether she brought it into the conversation or not, she STILL said she was acting like a whore and that is NOT okay. There's no excuse for that.

So someone else can bring it up but I can't? Hypocritical.

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So someone else can bring it up but I can't? Hypocritical.

Stop it. The person that brought it up was saying to NOT treat her like a whore, while you said that she WAS acting like one. Big difference. I just don't see how you don't understand how completely out of line you were.

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Stop it. The person that brought it up was saying to NOT treat her like a whore, while you said that she WAS acting like one. Big difference. I just don't see how you don't understand how completely out of line you were.

So it's ok for ONE person to say it but not another?! That's not right. Either neither of us should say it or we both can. You're the ONLY ONE who has an issue with it, get off your horse.

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So it's ok for ONE person to say it but not another?! That's not right. Either neither of us should say it or we both can. You're the ONLY ONE who has an issue with it, get off your horse.

How am I on a high horse because I think you were wrong in saying she was acting like a whore???

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How am I on a high horse because I think you were wrong in saying she was acting like a whore???

Because no one else is having a problem with me & what I said.

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Because no one else is having a problem with me & what I said.

That doesn't even make sense! Because I think you were being very disrespectful and rude does not mean I'm on any high horse!

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AN is NOT the place for throwing personal attacks and it states so!

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