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Hi there, I have been wanting to jump into the cam and porn industry for a while now, I have already opened my accounts and everything, I just haven’t entered my personal information because I am studying to be a nurse and I am worried that any record of employment will show on a background check in the future and will ruin my chances of getting a job when graduated, I am not worried about being recognized but about anything staying in my personal records, I live in Canada btw if that changes anything. It will be appreciated if anyone can confirm if they haven’t had any problem getting a job as a nurse when having done porn in the past. Thanks :)
 
What you should know going in is that every public show you do will be recorded and put on the Internet. Some of the private shows you thought were private will get recorded by the member and put on the Internet. So everything is about how to mitigate the risks that creates for you.

First, can you wear a mask, maybe just a lace strip over the eyes? The biggest risk going forward is that eventually there may be search engines that take a photo of anyone's face and then automatically matches that to photos of the person on social media. You can be sure governments already have this. Such a search engine already exists for Russian models and is the reason so many Russian models have blackmailers. So I think some thinking about how to hide enough of your facial features to fool that future technology is probably time well spent.

Second, I think it is a good idea to choose a name on camgirl sites that is generic sounding so that when someone does a web search, they will find hundreds or thousands of matches that have nothing to do with you. That tends to put your incriminating videos on page 2 or later on the search results. You should test that idea as your videos start to appear in search results. It is probably a good idea to include generic words that will turn up lots of search results of women in sexual situations, so that your listing as a camgirl will not stand out.

Third, assuming you do not want those videos on search engines, you have an option to find them as they appear on Google, then contact your webcam site and ask them to do a DMCA takedown from Google on your behalf. You need to supply the URLs. You should not do the DMCA yourself because that could end up exposing your identity.
 
Background checks that employers do are typically to make sure you are who you say you are and that you don't have a criminal background (and in some cases, your credit score can be checked). If they verify employment history, it would be by contacting your previous employers that you put down on your resume. As far as I know, there's no database regular employers can go into to see where exactly you worked at before. I mean, how intrusive would that be? And even if there was, you're not actually an employee for any cam or clip sites. You'd be an independent contractor and get a 1099-MISC form when it came time to file taxes. So, even if they could look into your tax history, which they wouldn't, your tiddie streamer money would be seen as miscellaneous income. So, you're good on the background check front. Granted, all this info is based off how it is in the US, but I doubt it's much different in Canada.

However, you do need to consider that you're probably going to have to sign a morality clause when you get hired as a nurse (again, this is based on the US, so it could be different in Canada). With that clause in your employment contract, if your employers do find out about your camming past, they could fire you for "unprofessional conduct". It's pretty messed up, especially since camming and porn is totally legal, but it's unfortunately how the world is.
 
Background checks that employers do are typically to make sure you are who you say you are and that you don't have a criminal background (and in some cases, your credit score can be checked). If they verify employment history, it would be by contacting your previous employers that you put down on your resume. As far as I know, there's no database regular employers can go into to see where exactly you worked at before. I mean, how intrusive would that be? And even if there was, you're not actually an employee for any cam or clip sites. You'd be an independent contractor and get a 1099-MISC form when it came time to file taxes. So, even if they could look into your tax history, which they wouldn't, your tiddie streamer money would be seen as miscellaneous income. So, you're good on the background check front. Granted, all this info is based off how it is in the US, but I doubt it's much different in Canada.

However, you do need to consider that you're probably going to have to sign a morality clause when you get hired as a nurse (again, this is based on the US, so it could be different in Canada). With that clause in your employment contract, if your employers do find out about your camming past, they could fire you for "unprofessional conduct". It's pretty messed up, especially since camming and porn is totally legal, but it's unfortunately how the world is.
You are right, and the way these things usually play out is that the person gets the job, but later when it is discovered that you were a stripper/camgirl/whatever then HR can hold up the paper you signed and say "you lied to us". The lie is actually the basis on which many organizations fire, rather than the morality clause itself.

Technically, the right way around this is that you could disclose up front to the hiring manager that you worked as a cam model when you were young, but you have given that up and will never do that again. If the hiring manager wants you badly enough, and she is not a puritan, then she would negotiate some kind of exception with HR, and you would sign something that acknowledges the past employment and then promise to not repeat it going forward.

But, how often are you going to find a hiring manager willing to do that for you, especially in a big corporate environment? You might end up losing job offers because of it, if the hiring manager is not able to get past the HR wall. It's a tough call.
 
Hi there, I have been wanting to jump into the cam and porn industry for a while now, I have already opened my accounts and everything, I just haven’t entered my personal information because I am studying to be a nurse and I am worried that any record of employment will show on a background check in the future and will ruin my chances of getting a job when graduated, I am not worried about being recognized but about anything staying in my personal records, I live in Canada btw if that changes anything. It will be appreciated if anyone can confirm if they haven’t had any problem getting a job as a nurse when having done porn in the past. Thanks :)
Hi. I have lurked here for a while and made an account specifically to answer your question. I have worked as a paramedic for way too long. My girlfriend cams and I do it mostly for fun. But, I will tell you this. Nurses are the most vulgar perverted humans ever. I have literally walked away from conversations because I was worried about someone hearing what they were saying and then me getting hung up in something. Nurses are and always will be in short supply and high demand. The question is are you comfortable with people knowing. If not, that's your answer. On the plus side, you won't have debt and can even go on to becoming a nurse practitioner. The majority of the people you cross paths with will never know unless you tell them.
 
You are right, and the way these things usually play out is that the person gets the job, but later when it is discovered that you were a stripper/camgirl/whatever then HR can hold up the paper you signed and say "you lied to us". The lie is actually the basis on which many organizations fire, rather than the morality clause itself.

Technically, the right way around this is that you could disclose up front to the hiring manager that you worked as a cam model when you were young, but you have given that up and will never do that again. If the hiring manager wants you badly enough, and she is not a puritan, then she would negotiate some kind of exception with HR, and you would sign something that acknowledges the past employment and then promise to not repeat it going forward.

But, how often are you going to find a hiring manager willing to do that for you, especially in a big corporate environment? You might end up losing job offers because of it, if the hiring manager is not able to get past the HR wall. It's a tough call.

The majority of society hates sex workers, whether it be because of (usually hypocritical) moral self-righteousness or plain ole insecurity. There's a lot of people who aren't "puritans" and don't try justifying their hatred of sex workers by citing their religious beliefs, although there's certainly more than a few people who do actually do this. Because of this very well known fact, it would be a terrible idea to disclose former sex work to a potential employer. Even if they didn't totally hate sex workers, you would still more than likely get judged for it and would lose out on the job or if it's a male interviewer have to worry about him turning into a creep and then having all your personal legal info.

Maybe if it's a small business disclosing your previous sex work wouldn't go bad and you'd still get hired (although, I would still say it's a bad idea). But in the medical field like OP would be looking to get hired into? Absolutely not. Even if she did somehow manage to get hired after being open about doing sex work, if any of her patients found out about it, they could create a big commotion over not wanting to be treated by a "whore", because anyone who does sex work is obviously not a trust worthy person (ugh). Her co-workers could say the same exact thing and refuse to work with her. Not to mention that it would make her a target for harassment and it would be opening up the hospital to a potential harassment suit or just a bunch of complaints filed with HR. They won't want to deal with all of that, especially since they can just straight up say "No, your past behavior violates our code of ethics and if found out would reflect poorly on our establishment" and send her on her way. I can't see any hospital or medical establishment negotiating some sort of HR loophole to allow an open previous sex worker to work for them.

So yeah, disclosing previous sex work at a job interview is most certainly not the right thing to do. And about them firing you because "you lied", sure they could say that you lied by omission. But more than likely they are just going to cite the morality clause and send you on your way. Or if you're at a job that doesn't have a morality clause, they will just find something to fire you over.

My apologies to OP, I'm definitely not trying to scare you away from the industry, but I feel like anyone getting into the adult industry, especially people who want to pursue certain careers later in the future, need to know the potential consequences before jumping in. Like I said before, it's super shitty, but that's how it is.
 
My husband had to sign a morality cause with the clinic he works for. Because of this he cannot perform with me.


You might want to post on r/nursing to see if anyone over on reddit has both nursing and sex work background. Sex work has always been a stepping stone for female health professions. There is that troupe of stripping to pay for nursing school.

Recently in the news, there was an EMT that was outed by the new york post for having an OnlyFans to help pay her bills that her. The last I checked her EMT employers haven't said she's fired publicly. But it's looking like she isn't keeping her job. Even though majority of public opinion is on the EMT side. Sex work is becoming more and more accepted, but it's still very stigmatize.
 
Employers can't find out about your past work through background checks and CRA records are completely confidential. I think your best bet would be to reach out to any relevant nursing associations in the area you want to practice and they would be able to give you a more definitive answer about morality clauses you may run into. I don't believe however that they are as big of a thing here as they are in the U.S., and based on case law they are more limited in their scope.
 
Bree Olson tried to quit porn and go into nursing, but she had trouble getting and staying hired because she was such a household name that everyone recognized her and discriminated against her. Your average cammer isn't going to have that level of fame, but stigma is definitely an issue to worry about.
 
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