{"id":1429,"date":"2024-05-25T22:40:49","date_gmt":"2024-05-25T22:40:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/flavortwistr.co.uk\/?p=1429"},"modified":"2024-05-25T22:40:49","modified_gmt":"2024-05-25T22:40:49","slug":"unemployed-dad-with-disturbing-face-tattoo-begs-for-job-on-facebook-after-searching-for-months","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/flavortwistr.co.uk\/?p=1429","title":{"rendered":"Unemployed dad with disturbing face tattoo begs for job on Facebook after searching for months"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Mark Cropp, from New Zealand, struggled to find work after serving a two-year sentence for a botched drug deal. In jail, heavily intoxicated on homemade alcohol, he and his brother tattooed \u201cDevast8\u201d across his face using makeshift ink from toothpaste and melted plastic utensils.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Upon release, Mark faced the harsh reality of unemployment. His face tattoo made job hunting nearly impossible. \u201cThere was a long time where I would devastate everything I touched,\u201d he told the Daily Mail Australia.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Desperate to remove the tattoo, Mark found laser removal too costly. He turned to Facebook, posting a selfie and appealing for a job and a new start. His plea went viral, catching the attention of Sacred Tattoo, an Auckland parlor, which offered free laser removal sessions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe title=\"20181228019 Teen Dad With Giant Face Tattoo Begs For Work\" width=\"790\" height=\"444\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/qGBMm1SzU54?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Mark also landed a job at PR Contracting, earning $22 an hour, marking a hopeful new beginning.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mark Cropp, from New Zealand, struggled to find work after serving a two-year sentence for a botched drug deal. In jail, heavily intoxicated on homemade alcohol, he and his brother&#8230; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1431,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1429","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-recipes"],"views":541,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/flavortwistr.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1429","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/flavortwistr.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/flavortwistr.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flavortwistr.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flavortwistr.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1429"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/flavortwistr.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1429\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1432,"href":"https:\/\/flavortwistr.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1429\/revisions\/1432"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flavortwistr.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1431"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/flavortwistr.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1429"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flavortwistr.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1429"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flavortwistr.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1429"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}