Will Working For Porn Website Ruin an IT Career?

An Anonymous Coward asks: "I used to work for one of those big web services firms, but it went bankrupt, and now i've been looking everywhere for a semi decent PHP programming job. I recently got an offer from a local porn site to do all of the programming for their site, including creating a whole automated publishing system for them in PHP. I also got an offer to manage the NT Servers at a medical office. Now, if I work for a porn site, will I ever be able to work for a traditional website again? Will this be a black mark on my resume? Has anyone here ever worked in the adult area of the internet? As mainstream, regular sites keep cutting staff, will more and more of us have to work for the seedier side of the internet?"

Comments

a moral decision

[cornflux]

You're obviously sensitive to what other people will think and how it will affect your career. But, maybe, the best idea is to consider it on a moral basis, for yourself... take everything else out of the equation for a moment.

Take the "Mom test." (Would you be ok with telling your mom what you do? Where you work?)

I can think of cases where it would be a PLUS

[renehollan]

Lesse... porn... high-res pictures... streaming video...

translates to BANDWIDTH to me. There's a reason a lot of hosting services won't carry porn, and not necessarily the obvious one.

I'd think that future employer that deals with high-bandwidth, load-balancing applications, would want someone with technical experience in that area.

Then again, I wouldn't put PORN in large print on my resume -- stress the tech.