Using your Erotica to boost resume?

[HeyAll]

Suppose you're broke. You're close to landing a job that pays over $100,000 annually plus bonuses.

You're in the final round of interviews and there are other candidates.

The boss told everyone that she (yes, a woman, strict) favors someone with a creative writing background, because writing and creativity is relevant for the job, and because the boss really respects writers. The boss had previously written a literature novel that was filled with crime and sex.

Another candidate has shown the boss an e-book he wrote, which only has a few negative reviews.

You, on the other hand, have your Literotica profile.

The boss is discreet.

What would you do?

 

[lovecraft68]

Go for it.
Hell, could turn into a story all its own.

 

[Bramblethorn]

If I really want the job, which I probably do in that scenario, sure.

That said... if it's an important job skill, that probably ought to come up earlier in the hiring process. If it's only mentioned for the first time at final interview, and it happens to match the boss's hobby, I'd have some reservations about how they're handling recruitment.

 

[gunhilltrain]

It might work with the scenario you outlined. Did that ever happen to you, or are you just speculating? In my case, I've never been in a situation even close to that.

 

[Blind_Justice]

Writing long, cohesive texts in a non-native language is a useful skill to have.

Should I ever get a job interview again (not likely), I at least have a memorable answer to the "What did you do during unemployment?" question. "When I wasn't sobbing in a corner thanks to all the shit life threw my way, I spent hundreds of hours writing smutty Sci-Fi and Fantasy stories." I've sprung this line on every last job agency person I had to deal with since ca. 2015. Makes for a great ice breaker.

 

[SimonDoom]

I cannot imagine a real-world situation in which one would want to tout one's success at Literotica to land a job. No. Absolutely not.

 

[MsNatalie99]

I cannot imagine a real-world situation in which one would want to tout one's success at Literotica to land a job. No. Absolutely not.

I'm studying to work in youth/adolescent psychiatry, specializing in victims of sexual abuse. I'd hope that my interest in erotica, never play a part in my chosen field.

 

[HeyAll]

For me, no way. Too many incest stories. lol

The idea for this thread came from seeing a job posting, in which the person hiring stated that 'creating writing' was a plus.

 

[GrampsIsHard]

I say why knot...fuck it...#zerogiven..

 

[KeithD]

I don't let erotica anywhere close to my writing CV.

 

[LusciousLoralie]

This would make a great story of its own.

 

[GrampsIsHard]

I don't let erotica anywhere close to my writing CV.

Don't be such a pussy...#zerogiven...

 

[KeithD]

Don't be such a pussy...#zerogiven...

Very (Very!) few writers make enough money off of erotica to become known for writing it. And you can take your ignorance for a hike.

 

[GrampsIsHard]

Very (Very!) few writers make enough money off of erotica to become known for writing it. And you can take your ignorance for a hike.

#zerogiven!...

 

[Rustyoznail]

I was on an interview panel yesterday where a question was "Tell us about a situation where you had to be adaptive, creative, or resourceful". I would have been very surprised if anyone had used erotic writing as an example.

 

[GrampsIsHard]

Well said Cletus....

 

[SimonDoom]

This thread makes me laugh. I have a bunch of incest stories. I imagine if I put a link to my Literotica output on my resume most employers would check out my work and say, "No way we're hiring THAT guy. He's messed up."

 

[ElectricBlue]

This thread makes me laugh. I have a bunch of incest stories. I imagine if I put a link to my Literotica output on my resume most employers would check out my work and say, "No way we're hiring THAT guy. He's messed up."

It's all the unfinished ones that make your resume such a compelling sales piece.

 

[DouglasFinney]

In my experience, if an organization is factoring writing skills into a hire, a writing sample will be asked for up front. I have several prepared pieces on hand that aren’t pornographic that I can submit when that’s the case, so this is never a problem for me. However, if the only writing I had on hand to submit were erotica, I’d sit myself down and write an appropriate sample that I could use for the occasion. Under no professional circumstances would I ever submit blue fiction as part of a job application.

 

[PennameWombat]

I attended a six-week (six two-hour sessions once a week) 'Writing Speculative Fiction' workshop, back in the halcyon days before a worldwide pandemic. At the first session, as part of "what is your experience?" I mentioned I'd written a bit of amateur erotica. I enjoyed the reactions, especially from the instructor (published author, female) and one of the other attendees (20-something unpublished female who said she had a sideline as a sex worker). No one asked for a sample .

I did pull an extract from one of my long stories here to submit for a contest that was part of a writing club at my employer. I needed to tweak some language in that section and tidy up loose ends (it was 5000 words pulled from a 70,000 word story.) It got me an Honorable Mention. One advantage of writing longer stories is that I have plenty of sections that can work for this.

 

[Duleigh]

Hell yeah, she can't fire me until she hires me.

 

[gunhilltrain]

I attended a six-week (six two-hour sessions once a week) 'Writing Speculative Fiction' workshop, back in the halcyon days before a worldwide pandemic. At the first session, as part of "what is your experience?" I mentioned I'd written a bit of amateur erotica. I enjoyed the reactions, especially from the instructor (published author, female) and one of the other attendees (20-something unpublished female who said she had a sideline as a sex worker). No one asked for a sample .

I did pull an extract from one of my long stories here to submit for a contest that was part of a writing club at my employer. I needed to tweak some language in that section and tidy up loose ends (it was 5000 words pulled from a 70,000 word story.) It got me an Honorable Mention. One advantage of writing longer stories is that I have plenty of sections that can work for this.

Should I assume that the instructor didn't like it, but the part-time sex worker was impressed?

 

[PennameWombat]

Should I assume that the instructor didn't like it, but the part-time sex worker was impressed?

Ah... my posting was too clever by half.

Actually, BOTH of them were a bit, uh, less than impressed. The other attendees (about half/half M/F, I was actually the oldest) either hid their reactions better or didn't care. This was at the first session, when the younger woman had introduced herself only as "a part-time uni student, barista and hopeful writer." The instructor didn't surprise me, I took her reaction more as general disapproval of a type of writing SHE would never do. Her published works I'd perused prior to the course indeed didn't have much sexual tension in them. The younger one (early twenties) was harder to read, but when she critiqued one of my short pieces a couple of sessions later, "you described her breasts in a bit of detail," her tone was disapproving. Well, my POV male in that piece had noticed that a woman he'd just met had quite the figure, not knowing at the time she was a disguised succubus, so, yeah. We were supposed to write a horror piece...)

It wasn't until most of us attendees headed out for a round of drinks after the LAST session that she pointed to a strip club that was a couple of blocks away and mentioned she'd recently started there part-time. I decided bringing up the whole erotica and the 'breasts description' discussion wouldn't be entirely useful, so I didn't bother. Although I found that reaction and her casual mention of her new job an odd juxtaposition.

 

[StrangeLife]

Wait! You guys don't have a referral to your Literotica library on your LinkedIn profile?