How do you find a job with a felony conviction?

Come to Davidson county and you can run for sheriff. LOL

Mindraker wrote:

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Yeah, it kinda depends on what your crime was for. If you were a child molester, don't, like, apply for the first grade teacher job mmmkay? If you burned down a building, don't apply for the fireman job, mmmkay? Use common sense.

you sir are a dip shit and dont know the real world. you will someday im sure and you will look back on your comment and agree that you are have no idea what the hell you are talkin about.

I had a felony for writing bad checks about 9 years ago. Im trying to better myself with a job that pays more. Is there anyone who has any suggestion. please email me.spunkysbuttons@yahoo.com

dont waste your time trying to rewrite this countrys fucked up laws you have to circumvent the system.Some of the replies on here show no depth.People fall into things that this country will spend the rest of your life making you pay for if you dont rise above the nonsense. know that if you have any skils at all you can work some where you might have to search a lot harder than everybody else but the question is. What's it worth to you?Cause some of us with felonies have families and loved ones we care about regardless of the cross we bear. my kids dont deserve to suffer because once upon a time i made a mistake

In this country your screwed if you have a felony no matter what you did or what job your applying for now. Your going to have to either lie and take your chances or work under the table for a while. I recommend both. I'm sorry for what your going through and I will pray for you. You paid your debt to society and you SHOULD now be square with the house. But general society won't let that happen. Then they scurry along doing their little worker bee things living their "like-to-think-they're-sa fe" lives. Then their dream wold gets shattered by a car-jacking perpetrated by an ex-con who was at his wits end with parole/probation payments. drug testing, restitution payments, and no one willing to hire him due to his past felony conviction. Then they cry "why did you let him out, he wasn't rehabilitated!?!" I say in return " He would have been fine, but you never gave him a chance to change!!"

FeLoN wrote:

I hollered at the judge that graduated me from drug court he actually hand typed me a letter of recomendation and called around to people he knew and got me a 12.00 @ hr job.Some Judges honestly do care.

Now that's a good judge!! Be part of the solution, not just the problem!!

Hiring a felon has to be a double edged sword for an employer. I'm sure most company's have in the past hired one just to have it just up and bite them in the ass. Leaves a bad taste and you really can't blame a company for NOT wanting to risk it again. Guess it really depends on the circumstance behind the charge?

paleoman wrote:

Hiring a felon has to be a double edged sword for an employer. I'm sure most company's have in the past hired one just to have it just up and bite them in the ass. Leaves a bad taste and you really can't blame a company for NOT wanting to risk it again. Guess it really depends on the circumstance behind the charge?

How many people has a company hired that were not felons and it bit them in the ass anyway???? WAKE UP!! THEY ALL HAVE!! Are you tellng me they are going to have bad taste in their mouth about them too?? What sense does that make?? There is no double edge sword. if you took the question off the application of have you been convicted of anything, it would only be a question of performance in the workplace which is what it should be about anyway!
Let me put something in perspective for you. When you take someone who has made a mistake and they geniuinely want to integrate back into society but they can't simply because they can't find a job? What does that say about the rest of us?? If they can't find a job, can't pay their bills, can't feed themselves, can't make any money what's their alternative? Steal, rob, sell drugs, panhandle and dig in the trash?
Don't get me wrong are there crimes for which you deserve to pay for the rest of your life, sure. Belive it or not. Over half of all convicted felons have never set foot in a prison. A felony is a crime punishable by more than one year. That is it! Its a lot easier than you think to be convicted of one. If we are going to take these people and give them no hope for reintegration and they eventually have little choice but to recommit crimes to survive, that is nothing morre than a system of failure and also results in an unsafe forthe rest of society?
There is not one poll nor any study that shows the reoffending rate of felons because they simply couldn't get a decent job and were not able fend for themselves in the working environment. If there were, THE PUBLIC WOULD BE OUTRAGED! They are sending these people back out there knowing they can't get a job and are putting society at more risk because of it and we have been drinking the kool-aid for years amid Government spread fears instead of using common sense.

I have gone through and looked at so many of these comments. I have to say I am in the same boat but I was better off a year or two ago before the economy crashed. The people I know were willing to over look my felony and I was making a decent living especially for around where I live. Now that everyone is being laid off I am back on the hunt for employment due to being laid off as well. The competition for even crap jobs is fierce. I have a felony and basic HS diploma and some core credits from college. But minimum wage employment is even being filled up by people with degrees or certificates. They have to live also and even if it's for minimum wage that will help feed them for a little while. All while we sit at the bottom and wonder weither or not people would think badly of us if we set the world on fire and slipped back into commiting crimes to feed our loved ones. I have a 4year old daughter and the only reason her mother had her with me was b/c I wasn't a criminal anymore and that I was showing the real ability to be a good father....what does one do now when I am not even able to hardly keep food on the table let alone take care of her for the next 14 years and beyond whenever she needs it. The horror of a remotly possible cataclysm in 2012 almost looks like a dream come true rather then a nightmare.

I wonder if we ever do have world turmoile will those that think they are better then criminals lay in a ditch and die or do the things that society said were crimes in order to survive? When you are starving and need someone willing to do what it takes to live will you push away their hand b/c they once stole a car,stole some clothes,stole some food,robbed,cheated or worse killed someone?

What makes any of us that have made mistakes along the way any less then those that just haven't been caught.....