RE: helping the son thread

MACK E-6 · Jan 18, 2025

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IMO Dad is frustrated because his son is off to a bad start at life and can't/won't get himself onto a better path. Deep down, he knows that his son is only putting in the minimum effort right now, and probably doesn't really want to be a driver. That's why dad came here himself instead of sending the link to his a son and telling him to ask for help. He was hoping he could go back with as specific of a recommendation as possible because he knows his son is looking for any excuse that it won't work.

Honestly, I think he maybe even hoped that everyone would be really nice to him because he wants to believe that society hasn't already made up its mind and can be forgiving. Yes, I'm sure he took personal offense at a lot of what was said, as would anyone in his position, but I think it cut him deeper than that because it showed him how many people in the real world will view his son now.

I'm not defending everything that was said, I wouldn't have said a lot of it, but they were all opinions that his son is going to have to navigate for the next few years. Nobody wants that for their kid. It is what it is, though.
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It’s the boy’s problem to fix though, and he can fix it easily if he really wants to, at least in my eyes.

Simply getting a job and holding it for a year without missing any time would go a long way.

MSWS · Jan 18, 2025

MACK E-6 said: ↑

It’s the boy’s problem to fix though, and he can fix it easily if he really wants to, at least in my eyes.

Simply getting a job and holding it for a year without missing any time would go a long way.
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I agree completely. The guy is 23 years old with a felony conviction for evading.

(As a side note, the dad said this conviction is from when his son was 18/19 and he still has to regularly report to his probation/parole officer. That sounds to me like it was less of a Dukes of Hazard situation and more LAPD with police helicopters and everything else. Who knows what the guy was leaving out)

Setting that aside, the son just needs to get a job and hold it for now. He can think about a career after the justice system gets done with him and he grows a little more hair on his chin. No reputable trucking company is going to hire a 23 year old who committed a felony in a vehicle anyway.

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