Job Searching & Pole Dancing

How to be a pole dancer and find a job in the age of social media

One of the most common questions that comes up in private online pole dance groups and forums that I’m a part of is what to do when you have a life as a pole dancer, a body of work published online in your persona as a pole dancer, and you are also looking for a job. There is often a lot of anxiety around what hiring managers, potential future bosses, and colleagues will think of us if they don’t know us personally and see that we are pole dancers.

As pole dancers/aerialists/movers, *we* all know that our passion for pole dancing should be no big deal.

*We* all understand that pole dancing is an athletic endeavor that *should* be about as controversial as pole vaulting.

*We* know that pole dancers are some of the homebodiest people we know and that actually — putting the pole dancing to the side — our lives tend to be really normal; we eat, sleep, raise children, go to church, and have jobs like the rest of society does.

*We* know that the sexiness and sensual undertones in performance art does not make a physical endeavor any less of a sport simply because the sport is performed and executed in 8-inch heels and that, usually, those heels actually make the sport technically much more difficult.

And yet, the world is still catching up.