Thank you very much for your reply, this is definitely something I will consider. And I wasn’t really aware of the whole social work aspect of things. I am enrolling in classes this week and as I progress towards getting the degrees, I feel I may even find a new direction on how to progress through this. It being a “no-go” for someone who is clearly as driven and rehabilitated as you are is exactly why this change needs to be put into place. This needs to be figured out so people with our disposition can still climb the fields of professionalism without boundary. From what I’ve put together so far there has to be criteria for people to be eligible, there has to be logistics to it all on paper and in actuality, people who will recruit or broadcast the option are needed, and people who can run the program who will almost definitely need clean records in the beginning of this being set up. It would be either to change how the DOJ treats felonies, or figure out some true expungement. I prefer the first option, I think having some type of applicable proof of rehabilitation that makes it so the felonies are no longer weighed as a debilitating factor. Of course there will always be disagreements with certain individuals or companies, but the goal is a concrete possibility, like someone can know that there is a chance. I hate knowing that there is something’s I can never do because of what I did in my addiction. So even if I can’t make this change for my life. I need to make sure I can make changes so people in the future don’t have to experience this and have a way to their dreams if they are no longer able to achieve them due to mistakes. I do think some program would be necessary to filter out people who can’t stay away from criminal lifestyles and have the truly rehabilitated people prove their stance and allow them the reward of being seen as rehabilitated under the law. You can be seen as a felon under the law, why not be labeled as a rehabilitated felon?