When applying to AMCAS, How do you provide your employment history? Especially Non-trads?

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When applying to AMCAS, how do you provide your employment history? Especially for the non-trads that have been out of school for several years.


EDIT: Also for AACOMAS.

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[Darth Doc]

I just listed mine with the dates and what I did. My work experience was in a health profession and didn't require any description. I did utilize events in my work history within my personal statement.

 

[kraskadva]

In the activities sections.
Real jobs look much better as "activities" than the trad EC stuff, i.e. "Teaching K-12 for 2 years" >> "Bio Club president", "Worked in medical office as Asst Mgr, 3 years" >> "Shadowed for 40 hours", "Served in the military" >>> "played X sport", etc.

Also many secondaries have a place to upload your CV separately, if you really want to throw that in.

 

[esob]

As someone who has been self employed for the last 18 years, that section is going to be fun for me 😀

 

[BombsAway]

As someone who has been self employed for the last 18 years, that section is going to be fun for me 😀

I'm considering going from my independent contractor status to an LLC, just to look more legit on amcas.

 

[Matthew9Thirtyfive]

As someone who has been self employed for the last 18 years, that section is going to be fun for me 😀

Yeah, I was a self-employed musician for a few years. That'll be fun to document.

 

[esob]

I'm considering going from my independent contractor status to an LLC, just to look more legit on amcas.

Yeah, we've been incorporated since 2011 and my official job title is CTO, but prior to that I was just a sole proprietor DBA.

Yeah, I was a self-employed musician for a few years. That'll be fun to document.

Haha, I was technically a paid musician for a few of those years but most of my "music" income actually stemmed from a recording studio I owned. I had a lot of irons in the fire at that time but I basically did computer hardware contracts when recording was slow, and acoustic foam sales when both were slow 😀 If I would have sunk all that money into stocks instead of into my band I would have retired a long time ago Any money I made playing shows went back into band stuff (which was sometimes several thousand for big shows)

But yeah, my employment history will be a mess, which is another reason why I'm happy to be carrying a 3.96 @ 100+ hrs so far; it guides the impression that I was smart enough to choose my employment as a set of rational decisions (and honestly it was).

 

[BombsAway]

Yeah, we've been incorporated since 2011 and my official job title is CTO, but prior to that I was just a sole proprietor DBA.

But yeah, my employment history will be a mess, which is another reason why I'm happy to be carrying a 3.96 @ 100+ hrs so far; it guides the impression that I was smart enough to choose my employment as a set of rational decisions (and honestly it was).

I gotta do more research on LLC vs S Corp. Its for jumping, and sometimes photography, so not a lot of capital flying around.

Keep grinding man. I crossed the 100 hr mark as well (over the summer). Hopefully my physics 2 prof lets me keep my 4.0, she's been getting kinda crazy with her quizzes and exams lately.

 

[Matthew9Thirtyfive]

I gotta do more research on LLC vs S Corp. Its for jumping, and sometimes photography, so not a lot of capital flying around.

I see what you did there...

 

[esob]

I gotta do more research on LLC vs S Corp. Its for jumping, and sometimes photography, so not a lot of capital flying around.

Keep grinding man. I crossed the 100 hr mark as well (over the summer). Hopefully my physics 2 prof lets me keep my 4.0, she's been getting kinda crazy with her quizzes and exams lately.

S. Corp is a lot more paperwork and most accountants will tell you that below a sizable income that the costs of maintaining the required records actually make it less cost effective than an LLC, particularly if you operate an LLC as a pass through entity. A reputable accountant can show you a cost/benefit analysis and I recommend getting a couple done b/c electing S corp after incorporating as an LLC can be tricky from a timing perspective if you try to make it retroactive.

 

[BombsAway]

I see what you did there...

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It has its ups and downs

 

[ayjaystudent]

S. Corp is a lot more paperwork and most accountants will tell you that below a sizable income that the costs of maintaining the required records actually make it less cost effective than an LLC, particularly if you operate an LLC as a pass through entity. A reputable accountant can show you a cost/benefit analysis and I recommend getting a couple done b/c electing S corp after incorporating as an LLC can be tricky from a timing perspective if you try to make it retroactive.

ELI5: How does being an LLC or S. Corp be advantageous in Medical School application?

 

[Mad Jack]

I'd held over a dozen jobs over the years, I just dropped everything but the last five of them.

 

[Matthew9Thirtyfive]

I'd held over a dozen jobs over the years, I just dropped everything but the last five of them.

So do you not have to account for your whole employment history?

 

[Mad Jack]

So do you not have to account for your whole employment history?

I just figured they wouldn't care about my two weeks working at McDonald's 14 years ago, that time I sold burritos in an orchard when I was 15, my months spent working in a cold storage warehouse on third shift 13 years ago, etc. There's a certain point where it just seems silly and no one would reasonably care. Generally the rule with jobs and housing is you post the last ten years worth of positions.

 

[Matthew9Thirtyfive]

I just figured they wouldn't care about my two weeks working at McDonald's 14 years ago, that time I sold burritos in an orchard when I was 15, my months spent working in a cold storage warehouse on third shift 13 years ago, etc. There's a certain point where it just seems silly and no one would reasonably care. Generally the rule with jobs and housing is you lost the last ten years worth of positions.

That's good. Narrows my job history down considerably. I had a few jobs 15 or so years ago that I don't think they'd care about and couldn't remember the details of anyway.

 

[esob]

ELI5: How does being an LLC or S. Corp be advantageous in Medical School application?

Well, in theory anyone with $1000 and a lemonade stand can incorporate, but in practice I think it demonstrates some degree of legitimacy and due diligence in your business practices. I feel most small businesses incorporate simply for legal protection; it protects your personal assets in the event the company incurs some civil liability (like that guy you hired on Craig's list to be an errand driver runs over the county's prized ducklings and the county decides to sue you for hiring such a tool). At a fiscal level, if you make enough money it can also allow you structure the money you receive in a more tax advantageous manner.