I have gotten ALL my IT jobs, even the first one, where I started out as a control clerk, through networking or "knowing the right people". Of course,I have a clean criminal record a an adult.
I do have a pot bust when I was sixteen, 50 dollar fine, a drug class after which my record was expunged, and my parents grounded my butt except for work for the rest of the summer.
All that for a roach in a cigarette pack. I suppose I'm lucky as that was before the "war on drugs" and laws were more lenient, at least for white, middle class appearing kids.
