Re:When should I disclose my hacking convictions?
by rmc on Thursday June 19, 2014 @11:44AM
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As a fellow gay man, I kinda know what you mean. I often out myself in interviews to see their reactions. If they have a problem with it, I don't wanna work there.
Though I'm in the EU, where discrimination based on sexual orientation is illegal, so I have that protection.
I don't have a felony, but I do have to decide whether (and when) to allow a potential employer to know I'm gay. I know it's not legally the same, but it works the same way in terms of the interviewer's 'decision calculus'. Bringing it up is literally pausing to ask for explicit judgement.
I've always intentionally stayed silent in an interview about being gay, since I always plan to carry on as a 'normal' employee. At work, my intimate life doesn't interfere, just as your history is in your past.