[quote]Chushin wrote:
[quote]Charlie Horse wrote:
[quote]angry chicken wrote:
[quote]Chushin wrote:
[quote]Charlie Horse wrote:
[quote]angry chicken wrote:
[quote]RSGZ wrote:
AC, what exactly are you looking for in the Oil business?[/quote]
Pretty much a new career! LOL I am most qualified at the moment to be a rig electrician with my background in Preventive Maintenance, Thermography, Generators, VFD’s and other complex electrical equipment. But I’ll do about anything just to get my foot in the door. Rig electricians make about 1.5 times what regular commercial electricians make. That’s the reason I got out of electrical work to do mortgage - The base salary was around 65K and you literally had to work 80+ hours a week for months on end to just make 100K per year. Working on a rig, I’ll make around that but I’ll do it working 12 hour days, 28 days on and 28 days off (back before all this regulation and licensing bullshit I TRIPLED that my first year selling mortgages).
Also (and more importantly), I figure the oil business isn’t going to rip my career out from under me in a few years cuz of my past. There may be stupid democrat politicians that pass bullshit, reactionary, misplaced legislation that does nothing but stifle the industry, but no one is gonna say, “you’re a felon, so you can’t do this anymore, even though you’re really good at it and you haven’t make any mistakes or broken any rules”. [/quote]
Are you not able to get a pardon?
I don’t really know anything about pardons so maybe it doesn’t apply to you. Which kind of sucks because it was so long ago. [/quote]
Yeah, wondered about this. Was there no limit on how long ago the conviction was? If not, that is a profoundly stupid law…[/quote]
I’ll be able to apply for a pardon/getting it expunged in 2013 (20 years after the conviction). Until then, I’m SOL. Even then, with a violent offense (armed robbery) I am unlikely to receive a pardon - since only the president or the governor of MD can give me one, it would be political suicide for them. I MIGHT get it expunged if the parole board (the same assholes who shot me down the first time I went up for parole when I was in the system) approves it, but that won’t restore my voting rights or 2nd amendment rights, it just seals the record “officially”.
Most of the “discrimination” against felons is by companies not wanting to hire them, not because of government regulation. However, in THIS particular instance, I was hired by a BANK with full knowledge of my conviction - it was the Gov’t regulation and draconian licensing rules that drove me (and thousands of other loan officers) out of the industry (most of them for the “sin” of having damaged credit or a foreclosure on their credit report).
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What? You don’t know the governor of MD?
Don’t you know everybody? 
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I’ll bet he knows (or rather “knew,” biblically speaking!) the governor’s wife! 
More seriously, AC, I never knew it was that bad. You have my sympathy (and frustratingly impotent desire to help out somehow).[/quote]
I appreciate it, but I’ve accepted it. I fully take responsibility for my actions and I own the results that I get in my life. Sometimes it sucks if it holds me back in one direction, but sometimes I am able to use the lessons I learned in prison to achieve a positive result in a different direction. So it is what it is… I just can’t stand whining bleeding liberals who fuck up our country and their enacting policies that are stupid, shortsighted and pointless makes it fun to bitch about, but when it comes down to it, I know the only person I have “blame” for me losing my mortgage career is myself… I should have left the shotgun at home!
