Will past job mistakes block my professional license?
Past professional discipline, termination, or ethical mistakes create intense anxiety about whether licensing boards will approve a certification application. This fear stops people from knowing if they should continue investing time and money into a career path or if their career is effectively over.
What people tried
Every workaround mentioned in the threads below. We haven’t tested any of them — and nobody here is claiming they worked.
- 1Asking online forums for reassurance about whether board licensing committees check past employment history or disciplinary terminations.
- 2Looking up specific state laws
- 3Checking with the state Department of Public Instruction to see if rehabilitation can be shown for reinstatement
In their words
Unedited, grouped by where they were said, most upvoted first within each place, each linked to the thread it came from.
r/Accounting1 person · September 2026
r/Teachers1 person · October 2026
“Does anyone know how difficult it would it be for me to be approved by the state to be a teacher, if I had previous license discipline?”source ↗
Funny-Produce-9269 · r/Teachers
Where this came up
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