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

Re:Ask HN: Any felons successfully found IT work post-release? by system2 on Wednesday January 03, 2024 @04:16PM (#38860047)

In the United States if you start your own IT company and sell your services to your clients there won't be any questioning who you are or where you even studied. As long as you solve the business problems they will pay you greatly.

If it is a matter of survival, I'd pick this route. You can easily make 6 figures or even 7 figures within a few years. You do not need to find a full-time job at a fancy company.

Long story short, nobody needs to know your past as long as you know how to fix computers and handle network systems.

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Re:Ask HN: Any felons successfully found IT work post-release? by Ckirby on Wednesday January 03, 2024 @04:32PM (#38860222)

Yeah, this is a fairly sensible answer

start a private LLC and subcontract the work to yourself

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Re:Ask HN: Any felons successfully found IT work post-release? by WarOnPrivacy on Wednesday January 03, 2024 @06:05PM (#38861033)

It works. I knew someone with a record who took this approach.

Just being self-employed is usually enough. I've been SE for decades (no record) and my only background checks were by private agencies for developmentally disabled adults. These were existing clients who later put me on the payroll - and that's when they checked me out. But not when I was 1099.

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