[fwdpropaganda]

Absolutely not tacky (congratulations btw).

But let me share the situation I'm in. For the past 2+ years I had a hustle making me roughly $10k/month. Initially I was including that in my CV.

After talking with a few recruiters I would hear the skepticism in their voice (for example "so why do you want to do this now?" when applying for a junior position on a consulting company).

You see, after leaving the academia I had a short job and then started to hustle on my own, meaning I have almost no "experience", because apparently in the corporate world "self-employed" is a euphemism for unemployed. So most employers don't want to take a chance with such kind of person, and the ones that considered it realized they couldn't afford me because of the figure I had on my CV. This is even after I explained that I was happy with a regular junior role.

So now I removed that, which just makes me unexperienced and unemployable.

[itamarst]

You might be able to use that to both get a job and get a higher salary.

1. Have CV explain the skills you got out of it, without mentioning how much money you make.

2. Once you have an offer in hand, you can then use your income as a bargaining chip to get them to raise the offer.

You want to share different information at different parts of the job search process, basically.

Happy to look at your resume (or anyone else reading this) and make suggestions; email me at [e-mail].