Ask HN: Any felons successfully found IT work post-release?

Re:Ask HN: Any felons successfully found IT work post-release? by justsomeoldguy on Wednesday January 03, 2024 @03:06PM (#38859107)

I've had four great tech jobs since I paroled ... I'm old. You want windows 3.11 for workgroups, or you want server 2019. you want *nix, you want macos, I'm into it all. kubernetes, virtualization, hell I used to run vmware GSX for companies before ESX existed. My resume is very strong, and my skills are good. and.... it isn't enough. not so far. it's going to take someone who knows from the start, somehow.

I've made companies a lot of money in my lifetime. I worked at places like exodus communications, netapp, netcom, @home. Some old names people prolly recognize. I specialize in storage, you want ceph? Ceph and I get along great. My last cluster was over 2 PB and it started out just 150TB.

It's simple in the end, I work for companies, solve their problems, make us all money. Should be simple right?

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Re:Ask HN: Any felons successfully found IT work post-release? by jfray2k22 on Wednesday January 03, 2024 @05:18PM (#38860631)

hello fellow excommie!

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Re:Ask HN: Any felons successfully found IT work post-release? by justsomeoldguy on Thursday January 04, 2024 @01:24AM (#38863750)

haha. nc1895 here. I was hella late to the game. but you may even remember me, I ran [email protected] and ix.netcom.com. I am keman-the-klueless, anti-spammers once called me. I went to [email protected] after ICG bought us out. Then after @home went under, I went on to [email protected]. Back in the spam fighting days before adaptive intelligent filters, it was all hard work of reading email headers, tracing things back, finding the user, and closing out their account.

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