Background Check Questions...

Hello All,

I have had a few unfortunate run ins with the law over the past ten years. In 2010 I was arrested and convicted of DUI, then 9 months later, also in 2010, I was arrested and convicted of shoplifting after I took a prescribed sleeping medication, and blacked out, then walked out of a store with a laptop charger I was using to charge my laptop with, all while completely blacked out. I have since paid for these offenses, as well as had them expunged. They were both misdemeanors. Should I be worried that I am simply never going to be able to work in the financial industry at all? I am a very successful trader, and have a job lined up at a Prop Trading firm. Im worried that the FBI background check will kill me in the crib. Anyone have any experience or anything they would like to share?

Thanks!

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" Anyone have any experience or anything they would like to share?"

My name is Brosef, and I am addicted to blogging. Insiders are familiar with the term bloggist. It all started when I was 15, just a boy, spending most evenings unsupervised, and inevitably running with the wrong crowd. It was all fun games at first, spending time on AIM, various chat rooms and forums. However, things escalated quickly and undoubtedly took a turn for the worse in the summer of 2006. See, I have great respect for the blogging craft, and came to admire many a bloggist. Follow bloggist, formerly known as Micah6996, and currently recovering, was the influence that shaped my craft. I had deep admiration for Micah6996's work , and I am honored to call that bloggist a friend. In 2006, Micah6996 started the trend of high jacking ridiculously long and wordy original posts. I spent countless nights on-the-line scouring webpages in search of my dear friends most recent work. I knew his actions were not right, but it was my guilty pleasure. After months of watching Michah6996 in action, I was ready to make the move and post high-jacking myself. My first time was rough, but things only got better with time. With every high-jacking, my posts were longer, more off topic and completed more quickly. It is a known fact that from winter 2006 to summer 2008, there was not an original post that Micha6996 or I didn't high-jack. Life was good - but not good enough. I couldn't live knowing that there were off-topic posts that I wasn't participating. So I let greed got the best of me, and I did the unthinkable. I high-jacked one of Micah6996's high-jacked posts. He did not respond well. He was outraged by the fact that I would take what he loves most in this world away from him, but I didn't care. I was on a roll and in my prime. No one was going to keep me out off a forum or prevent me from high-jacking original posts and already high-jacked posts. Micah6996 knew I had an issue, and did not want to see his life take a turn for the worse like mine had. See, I lost sight and forgot the importance of quality posts and developed a reliance on quantity. I didn't care what I was writing, I just wanted to write more. That is, until admins caught on to my ploy. In recent history, forums have become more stringent with cowboys like Micah6996 and I. Times have changed, and so have I. Rarely do I high-jack a post, because just a taste of the good stuff gets me going.... Next time you ask if I have anything I would like to share, please, for my sake, be more specific.

 

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