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Move to another country. Open a LLC and work as a contractor via your firm. Bootstrap a B2B startup, you seem to have valuable skills you can bring to market. There are many solutions but they do require you to make a hard trade off.

>>pennaM+(OP)
moving to another country isn't an option. the only ones I'd be willing to go to won't let felons in. I can't even drive to canada 10 miles from where I live, here at the border, to see friends. no felons are allowed in canada for life. they will arrest you immediately for trying, signs for it everywhere.

I have an LLC. I'm a published author, but sales are nothing I could live off of.

I'm not sure I have what it takes to bootstrap a b2b. It's why I like working with others. I literally enjoy helping other people solve problems. I was an SRE two positions ago and I took on the IT role for an extra 5k/year. and I happily answered calls to change peoples passwords, because it was a small company. and everyone really respected each other. everyone was grateful. I had cards all over my wall that people sent me, thank you cards. covering half of it by the end. this is what I need in life, all I need. I'm old enough now to know the difference between wants and needs.

>>pennaM+(OP)
> Move to another country.

Your plan sounded perfect except for the complete infeasibility of it. Countries don't let felons from other countries immigrate.

>>pennaM+(OP)
When I moved to the Netherlands to start a company, they only looked back 10 years for a background check to get the visa. I highly recommend leaving the country and starting completely fresh if the algorithms got you fucked.

>>hn_thr+v1
thank you for that, it can be really frustrating to get suggestions when people don't even know what they're suggesting.

Lets say a felon immigrates to germany. their policy is they won't ask. but if they find out you were a felon in the US, at any point in your life, they will immediately deport you. and your life in germany however much you built, is forfeit. yay! at any point in time.

that is not an acceptable risk

>>hn_thr+v1
People underestimate how easily they can travel and how it’s really just a privilege.

You end up on a no fly list or become a convicted felon and that’s it, your life of travel is snuffed out.

I really feel for the OP.

>>deadba+Ng
This is not necessarily true. Speaking from experience as a DUI felon (no other charges) I have traveled to multiple countries in the EU, UK, Thailand, Costa Rica, Mexico and Dominican Republic. The only country that has denied me entry is Canada.

This likely depends on the felony of course. A DUI in which no harm/damage occurred is probably the lesser of the felonies.

>>felon1+fk1
In some of those countries isn’t DUI basically culturally acceptable?