An adult video-chat company is looking to hire attractive female Moorpark College students. The company, Web Chat Vc, has placed fliers advertising the jobs in campus newspaper boxes and women’s bathrooms, promising thousands of dollars a month.

It turns out that Web Chat Vc was advertising illegally.  MC’s Associated Student President Ebony Taylor said that no one from the company had come to the AS seeking their approval or assistance. Leanne Colvin, secretary of MC’s Business Services commented, “If [Web Chat Vc] were an authorized vendor, they would be able to show you a copy of their permit.”

But—permit issues aside—would it be so bad for students to take this job? 

Fall semester is the season when many students look for a job. But what do you consider to be an acceptable job? It can be difficult trying to balance school and work since most companies want an employee who can work flexible hours. And many of us have classes that conflict with hiring managers’ desired hours.

So what do you do? Keep looking for a job and hope for the best? Remain unemployed, counting your pennies and living off dollar menus, or would you consider another alternative?

What if I told you there was a way to make $500-$1000 video chatting 30-40 hours a week? The offer sure caught my attention.  Unfortunately, I’m not a “fit, attractive, and motivated young lady,” as the ad requires. But if I were, the true question would be: “Am I willing to expose my body on the Internet for a paycheck?”

This could be an opportunity for young women who desperately need money. Internet models and pole dancers make a good bit of money. A successful internet model (hypothetically making $750 per week) has more than enough money to pay off all of her textbook fees and tuition. The adult entertainment business isn’t just lucrative, it’s also recession proof, and unless your parents or friends frequent similar sites, your employment will remain secret.

Nevertheless, this particular job takes up 30-40 hours a week, which brings us back to the reason we couldn’t find a job in the first place: schedule conflicts. Working that many hours could lure a student to drop classes or postpone their education altogether in order to make the promised amounts.

It wouldn’t be right to condemn anyone for taking this job. In the end, we all have different priorities, and different ways of solving our own money problems.