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A comment on Ask HN: Career change for elderly UK ex-convict?.

Re:Ask HN: Career change for elderly UK ex-convict? by gm3dmo on Wednesday January 12, 2022 @09:26AM (#29906659)
> But I like stats ML and data so I'd love to try for that.

Building some reputation on an ML/AI/Data site like Kaggle might be helpful to get noticed.

https://www.timpson-group.co.uk/timpson-foundation/ex-offend... Timpson's have a very strong reputation for offerening employment to marginalized groups. I'm sure they have a back office operation that drives the shoe repair and key cutting shops so they may be worth investigating.

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Re:Ask HN: Career change for elderly UK ex-convict? by throwaway301010 on Wednesday January 12, 2022 @01:36PM (#29911026)
Timpsons are indeed well known for this and while in open prison a number of men went out everyday to work in their shops.
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