Social Worker, Artist: Possession of Controlled Substances; Driving While Intoxicated
Thrilled to share this guest artist video!
READ MOREThrilled to share this guest artist video!
READ MOREIt would be very scary if I were not able to be where I am today.
READ MOREMy girlfriend (now wife) was not impressed.
READ MOREThose mistakes? I learned from them. I wouldn’t trade that.
READ MOREMostly, we were white upper-upper-middle class, and we were doing the same things that kids in town were doing and everyone knew it—but they were getting picked up and we weren’t.
READ MOREI’d be unemployable had I been caught.
READ MOREYour project made me realize that it could have been me. It is difficult to look at yourself in a flawed way, you know?
READ MOREBut really, as quickly as it all happened, it was over.
READ MOREIt could have had a domino effect, stopping me from being with you here today.
READ MOREBut this was out in the middle of nowhere, so we were unlikely to be caught compared to kids our age doing similar things in the city.
READ MOREEvery job I’ve held since graduation has been licensed, and I’ve never had to worry about my past. That’s not true for so many others: I hear it time and again at different jobs, “We were gonna hire him, but he didn’t pass a background check.”
READ MOREI guess I was convincing enough.
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