This will probably be lengthy which I do apologize for, but I would definately be grateful for your answers.
I am wanting to pursue my college degree. Although I am 30, I am tired of working as a small employee who has no type of value to my company other then a laborer who can easily be replaced. I want to be of some importance, and I want a career. I have one major obstacle in my way.
I am going to be completely honest with you so please be completely honest with me. When I was 18 I committed 2 feloies within a month of each other. It was a pretty bad month for me I guess you could say. I was a pretty dumb teenager. The first felony me and my friends kicked out some spotlights that shined on those model homes they have set up in neighborhoods so you can see what the houses looked like. Well since there was 2 or more people involved when we did it they gave me a 2nd degree felony for "Engaging in Organized Criminal Activity". I got out after a few days and was still hanging out with friends engaging in drinking and drugs as I did back then. Now there was this new girl who was hanging out with me and my friends who was with one of my friends. Well she ended up liking me. Now let me say at this point in my life I was still a virgin and really shy with girls because I had been bigger growing up and thinned out in my latter teenage years. I had a baby face and girls liked me but I didnt know anything so I never knew how to respond. So this girl liked me and well to make a long story short she ended up being underage. Now when I found out about the whole incident (after cops visited me and I was a little shocked to say the least) I found out she had explained to her parents that she lied to me about her age and her parents dropped the charges but the state picked them back up. I hadnt even been 19 for a month now as I turned 18 in jail before I was released for the prior felony I mentioned and we were 4 years and 39 days apart. Well for this case they gave me "Indecency with a Child (by exposure)" and ran it concurrent with the other felony. I had a court appointed lawyerbecause I had no money back then. I fought it in county for 6 months and signed for 10 years shock probation (6 months in prison to shock you and 10 years probation) and then did the 6 more months before getting out on probation. During this time the girl got pregnant by someone else and ended up being forced by her parents to marry him or they would do the same thing to him as me. Her and I are still friends even today, as I know she neer expected any of this to happen to me. So I got out messed up probation within a year with a DWI when I had just turned 21 one week prior and went to do 4 years. Well I did a lot of thinking in that 4 years and made some major life changing attitudes. When I got out over 6 years ago, I got a job with a company within one month. I am still with my same company making a pretty descent wage today. I have a home and I have never gotten in trouble since. I have to do that sex registration stuff because of that, but only for 10 years from my release date (my charge was one of the least charges so it only warranted 10 years of registration from being off of paper/probation etc) which leaves me just under 4 years to go. The whole situation has pretty much ruined my life. Since I am on the website with all the real bad cases of sick and lude acts, people pretty much look at me the same as them because nobody looks at circumstances. Since I'm on that site I'm the same as a guy who is 43 molesting a 7 year old to them. Thats just what life dealt me and I have to live with it.
So my question is, I have heard of people with felonies who get out and get their degrees and nobody will hire them. Now granted I will not have to register by the time I finish my degree, and it will have been 15 years since the time of the incidents in 1998, but it will still be on my record. I am clean cut and not all tattooed out or anything just because I know some people have a mental picture of people who have done time. Am I wasting my time getting a degree? I was looking at going for Business Accounting or Finance, will anyone even want to hire me? Would any of you hire me in light of the facts, even if I explained my situation? Am I doomed to work a dead end job my whole life because I messed up as a teenager? Does anyone have any advice for me, as I would really appreciate it. Please be totally honest and don't sugar coat anything as I have been totally honest with you. Thank you for your time and feedback.
I am wanting to pursue my college degree. Although I am 30, I am tired of working as a small employee who has no type of value to my company other then a laborer who can easily be replaced. I want to be of some importance, and I want a career. I have one major obstacle in my way.
I am going to be completely honest with you so please be completely honest with me. When I was 18 I committed 2 feloies within a month of each other. It was a pretty bad month for me I guess you could say. I was a pretty dumb teenager. The first felony me and my friends kicked out some spotlights that shined on those model homes they have set up in neighborhoods so you can see what the houses looked like. Well since there was 2 or more people involved when we did it they gave me a 2nd degree felony for "Engaging in Organized Criminal Activity". I got out after a few days and was still hanging out with friends engaging in drinking and drugs as I did back then. Now there was this new girl who was hanging out with me and my friends who was with one of my friends. Well she ended up liking me. Now let me say at this point in my life I was still a virgin and really shy with girls because I had been bigger growing up and thinned out in my latter teenage years. I had a baby face and girls liked me but I didnt know anything so I never knew how to respond. So this girl liked me and well to make a long story short she ended up being underage. Now when I found out about the whole incident (after cops visited me and I was a little shocked to say the least) I found out she had explained to her parents that she lied to me about her age and her parents dropped the charges but the state picked them back up. I hadnt even been 19 for a month now as I turned 18 in jail before I was released for the prior felony I mentioned and we were 4 years and 39 days apart. Well for this case they gave me "Indecency with a Child (by exposure)" and ran it concurrent with the other felony. I had a court appointed lawyerbecause I had no money back then. I fought it in county for 6 months and signed for 10 years shock probation (6 months in prison to shock you and 10 years probation) and then did the 6 more months before getting out on probation. During this time the girl got pregnant by someone else and ended up being forced by her parents to marry him or they would do the same thing to him as me. Her and I are still friends even today, as I know she neer expected any of this to happen to me. So I got out messed up probation within a year with a DWI when I had just turned 21 one week prior and went to do 4 years. Well I did a lot of thinking in that 4 years and made some major life changing attitudes. When I got out over 6 years ago, I got a job with a company within one month. I am still with my same company making a pretty descent wage today. I have a home and I have never gotten in trouble since. I have to do that sex registration stuff because of that, but only for 10 years from my release date (my charge was one of the least charges so it only warranted 10 years of registration from being off of paper/probation etc) which leaves me just under 4 years to go. The whole situation has pretty much ruined my life. Since I am on the website with all the real bad cases of sick and lude acts, people pretty much look at me the same as them because nobody looks at circumstances. Since I'm on that site I'm the same as a guy who is 43 molesting a 7 year old to them. Thats just what life dealt me and I have to live with it.
So my question is, I have heard of people with felonies who get out and get their degrees and nobody will hire them. Now granted I will not have to register by the time I finish my degree, and it will have been 15 years since the time of the incidents in 1998, but it will still be on my record. I am clean cut and not all tattooed out or anything just because I know some people have a mental picture of people who have done time. Am I wasting my time getting a degree? I was looking at going for Business Accounting or Finance, will anyone even want to hire me? Would any of you hire me in light of the facts, even if I explained my situation? Am I doomed to work a dead end job my whole life because I messed up as a teenager? Does anyone have any advice for me, as I would really appreciate it. Please be totally honest and don't sugar coat anything as I have been totally honest with you. Thank you for your time and feedback.