Ex felon looking for work

Thanks for the update. Let us know how things are going. There are a lot of drivers that can use this information.

 

CFI is a start and it will get you going. Being a convicted felon defiantly limits your options and you wont be able to go to Canada. Hang with CFI for 3 + years and keep a good driving record. Stable job history and clean driving history will help you move on to a better company in the future. I used to work with felons, so I understand the issues on finding good employment when you get out. Unfortunately, there are a lot of people who think because a person has a felony record that they are a complete POS. When I worked in a prison I have seen it both ways. Some never learn and some just want to finish their bid and make a better life.

Keep us posted on your progress. Yes, you have some new challenges, but you can make it.

 

The guy who shot me was a felon. So not only was he charged with attempted first degree murder, aggravated assault, illegal use of a firearm, but also felon in possession of a firearm.

Ironic his freedom is an 8x10 concrete room and I have the freedom of the entire country rolling under my truck every day.

 

You nailed it right there. For all those pissing on felons. Like the OP said. You have some guys that all there care about is living the life of crime and should never get out. You also have others, who screwed up and want to change their lives for the better. Those guys should be afforded every opportunity to do so. They are not all bad.

Ask me how I know. I spent 2 years as a deputy sheriff working in a county detention facility and 3 years working in a state prison. I have seen the good and bad. I wish the OP the best of luck on his future. The man is trying to find stable employment to better himself and his family. He's on the right track and wanting to be a better member of society. Help the guy out.

 

This is true... I mentioned working with an inmate crew in a different thread, and many of those inmates were glad to be doing a productive job of work outdoors, rather than sitting in some funky jail cell all day. There were also some who were just looking to game the system, you could tell they'd be repeat offenders as soon as they hit the streets. Then there are the folks in jail who were falsely charged and don't even belong there... and there are more of those than you think. I was one of 'em, I had six months of my life ripped off when I was falsely charged, my bail was jacked to half a million dollars (with no record to speak of, lol), and I had to wait for my hearings before I shot the charges down. My only "crime" was attempting to expose the blatant corruption of the C.P.D. and the scrub D.A. who routinely protected them... something I'll never bother doing again, except to bash 'em on the Internet, which I've been doing for years, lol. Same corrupt goombah POS tards behind the cover-up of the Rebecca Zahau murder, you can Google 'Zahau' and learn all about that fiasco. Meh, I gave as good as I got and helped shoot down the scrub D.A.'s bid to become mayor of San Diego, and I helped put the vandal punks who started it all out of business, lol... I don't make a very good "victim" in that sense. I can look back upon it all now and laugh about it, but the six months in jail weren't much fun... as y'all may know, they don't serve cold beer in jail, lol. No dancing girls either, unless ya count the tranny grinders...

 

The OP paid his debt to society. Nobody is perfect, even the supertruckers on the internet....we all have skeletons in our closet.
Best of luck to the OP in his new adventure!!!

 

Will you have any probation time once your parole is done, or will you be totally released? If you have probation to serve still, then CFI might be a problem, and the same with the Sygma requiring relocation. Probation will balk at you going OTR, and the relocation will require them to work with a probation agency where you relocate too.