I’m a “people person”, a hard worker, a thinker, a problem solver.
Now I just need an interview.
I always worked. Never a year went by that I didn’t work. I hit bottom, rock bottom, and now I am starting all over. I don’t live for myself anymore; I live for my daughter.
I am a college graduate and played college football. I earned my LPN (licensed practical nurse), and was really successful in the business world. But I got caught doing stuff that was very lucrative but, let’s just say, not right. At the same time I got into a fight, was critically wounded, and I lost it all. I lost everything. I can’t even see my daughter because she lives in California and that’s where I want her raised, but I can’t be there. I am required to stay in New York State and it kills me.
I realize now that the material things I loved so much didn’t make me and they won’t break me. Obviously I’m not going back. I am paying my dues and it can be brutal. I have no home, lost my car, my possessions, and I can’t see my baby. But I can’t get caught up again even though it is really hard for someone with a felony conviction to earn a living.
I don’t understand how, in order to stay out of jail you have to have money to pay for mandatory programs, child support, and other things, but it is almost impossible to get a job. What options are left? I’m not going back to a life of crime – ever – but this is a tough position to be in.
I would really like to have my own business, maybe contracting, something where I work with my hands. I am hoping that Yonkers Green Connection will provide me with the extra technical skills I need. I’m happy to work for someone else as I plan out my future. I’m happy to work at all. I need to get a job with benefits, reestablish myself, and take care of my daughter and my family. That’s my focus and that’s my goal. I have the skills: I’m a “people person”, a hard worker, a thinker, a problem solver. Now I just need an interview.
