# Looking for advice **URL:** \ **Category:** SECURITY CLEARANCE Q&A\ **Created:** [May 12, 2020, 3:16pm UTC](https://discuss.clearancejobsblog.com/t/looking-for-advice/10788 "2020-05-12T15:16:30Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Guy123456](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/8dc957/32.png) [@Guy123456](https://discuss.clearancejobsblog.com/u/Guy123456)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2020, 3:16pm UTC](https://discuss.clearancejobsblog.com/t/looking-for-advice/10788/1 "2020-05-12T15:16:30Z")
So I’m now 34. Back in back in 2006 I got a DUI on base…I don’t learn my lesson and I got another one 2007 out in town. I have done all the classes required and moved forward on with life. I got a family and I don’t think the same way or do the same things. I currently got a clearance but I want to upgrade to an TS for a better paying job. Is this even possible?. Am I waisting my time with trying. I will had to fight like hell for my current clearance before it was granted with an warning. What would you do if you were in my shoes. ---
**Author:** ![sbusquirrel](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/discuss.clearancejobsblog.com/sbusquirrel/32/34_2.png) [@sbusquirrel](https://discuss.clearancejobsblog.com/u/sbusquirrel)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2020, 5:02pm UTC](https://discuss.clearancejobsblog.com/t/looking-for-advice/10788/2 "2020-05-12T17:02:41Z")
Two DUIs in about a year’s time may be significant, but the passage of 13 years since then is more significant… in my humble opinion. I suspect the investigator will still want all the details but it could be so far in the past that it is a non-issue. When did you get the secret clearance? Closer to the time of the last DUI? ---
**Author:** ![Guy123456](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/8dc957/32.png) [@Guy123456](https://discuss.clearancejobsblog.com/u/Guy123456)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2020, 5:20pm UTC](https://discuss.clearancejobsblog.com/t/looking-for-advice/10788/3 "2020-05-12T17:20:19Z")
no waited about 6 years after the last DUI. I’m coming up on my renewal next year. I got my clearance back in 2011. ---
**Author:** ![Amberbunny2](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/3ab097/32.png) [@Amberbunny2](https://discuss.clearancejobsblog.com/u/Amberbunny2)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2020, 6:53pm UTC](https://discuss.clearancejobsblog.com/t/looking-for-advice/10788/4 "2020-05-12T18:53:55Z")
I’ve successfully submitted 3 or 4 folks with 2 DUIs. All cleared. Time is a great mitigator. Provided all other aspects of your life are in good standing, you will clear. ---
**Author:** ![baochau2016](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/6de8d8/32.png) [@baochau2016](https://discuss.clearancejobsblog.com/u/baochau2016)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2020, 7:41pm UTC](https://discuss.clearancejobsblog.com/t/looking-for-advice/10788/5 "2020-05-12T19:41:55Z")
The fact that you have been cleaned in the last 13 yrs is a great mitigation factor. You are now 34, so if i am doing the math correctly you were 20 and 21 when the DUI happened, and you have moved on and improved since then. If i was an investigator i would think at the age of 20’, people tend to do stupid ■■■■, but how lessons learned and how a person corrected the issue are more important than the past. Moreover, a TS does not necessary mean you will get a higher salary…i know for fact because i am a DOD contractor. ---
**Author:** ![fed-investigator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/8491ac/32.png) [@fed-investigator](https://discuss.clearancejobsblog.com/u/fed-investigator)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2020, 11:02pm UTC](https://discuss.clearancejobsblog.com/t/looking-for-advice/10788/6 "2020-05-12T23:02:02Z")
I’ve had renewal cases with five and six DUIs spanning a 30 year period. Time, without repeated behavior is the best mitigator.