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Oh don't imagine I'm not sorry but HN is not a church confessional. I'm looking for ideas to move on, not lectures, or tut-tutting, about my poor previous morals.

Awesome! Looked at what you do. Will be in touch. Thanks for being generous.

US doesn't seem to have access to UK criminal records as I've travelled to NY without declaring convictions and been OK. No idea if just lucky or there's no data sharing.

yea, definitely struck me as odd too, most people bullshit a bit on CVs so whether there was more to it I don't know: TBH you don't usually ask people for details of why they're inside - it can get ... problematic.

Hi are you Peter-jan or Linh?

Timpsons are indeed well known for this and while in open prison a number of men went out everyday to work in their shops.

You'd only be disbarred from being a company director if the court ordered it or if Companies House applied to the court to disbar you. Max 15 years disbarment.

>the bar for these jobs is very, very low. ideal :)

Good suggestions, especially probation periods.

Pointless tech interviews are a well rehearsed topic on HN and I referred to that. I don't mind prepping for interviews but not spending 6 months doing leetcode exercises about weird trees & stuff I'll never implement.

Well that was painful to watch!

This 100%. Basic literacy & numeracy is stunningly low in UK prisons & improving basic education has been shown to improve reoffending rates greatly, in policy terms it ought to be a no-brainer but as you say the NGOs & charities in this space are starved of cash, mental health & addiction charities would slash offending rates, - but the government throws hundreds of millions of £ at contractors like Serco & G4S who can afford to lobby hard & donate to party funds, but who squander it.

Pragmatically, I'd not be prepared to lie because it is a criminal offence, fraud, and I doubt a court would look kindly on a repeat offence. But I tend to agree: "you gotta do what you gotta do", in my case feed the kids.

Good list! Thanks. I'll run through those. As you say, some big names.

Most nihilist would be likely to say "stuff it, have the job, I don't care, it's all pointless."

Great resource - thanks very much - I was looking at find just this type of thing, also I found https://www.jobs.ac.uk/

Great suggestions & solid advice. Informal networking may work well if intergated with a speaker slots (I'm a decent public speaker) but I'll need to devise a strategy.

The advantage of being an ex-lawyer is I do know this to be a criminal offence!

That's really awesome. So nice to see someone willing to at least give a man a shot! Will be in touch.

Having had a conviction I don't want to pick up one for lying on my CV. In jail I knew someone convicted for just that, though I think it is rare.

Unis are more open to inclusive hiring from what I hear so that may be worth exploring, but they also have safeguarding issues as they have young people there - though as a money launderer not a kiddy-fiddler I'm not sure how worried they be, unless they'd worry about moral corruption!

Yes, penal system rehabilitation projects is good suggestion. People do that, and it may be possible to do a UK cons-to-coders ML project (there was one in the US). I've seen people on HN cast doubts on OS projects as a portfolio approach but it's worth contemplating.