Punks who now play in the system

I know one who is in the military, another is now a school teacher. Guess we all kind of wind up like Steve-o in the end.

Punks are kids who don't know anything yet. We all eventually grow up I guess

Straight Edge Hardcore kid who also became a police officer after serving in the military. I used to go to Anyi-Flag shows and sing about police brutality and facism. Look at me now, house, kids, cars, responsibility. The Anerican Dream.

Great thread.

Served 4 years in the Air Force and now work for the government. All while listening, occasionally, to bands like Crass, Crucifix, Conflict, Icons of Filth, Zounds, Flux of Pink Indians, etc etc etc....

At least I make a lot of money now.

Hah.

Well, do any of you still have your punk ideals? Or did you turn into cops that beat up skaters?

I think it's cool that young punkers turned into cops because it makes you think they turned into the good kind of cops. But that's not a certainty.

Great thread! Former punk in AZ, played in bands, toured, ran venues, did the whole nine. Listened to lots of bands, loved Cruficix, Icons of Filth, Discharge, etc. Stopped playing in bands awhile ago, am getting married in a year, and became a business owner. The subculture nowadays has become WAY too PC, and will hold you back from doing well in life.

Wow, you people never were Punk Rockers to begin with.
You perhaps enjoyed the music and the looks, and the teenage rebellious attitude, but a true punk rocker has ideals overall, and would never become a military or police agent! Nor a capitalist business owner.
I have met several fake-punks through my life, and true ones.

I consider myself a Punk Rocker, despite I no longer dress up like when I was in my teens-twenties. I work of course, but I work "self-management" (autogestionada).
I did worked employed when I was paying my University studies in my early twenties, I had to do it, but now I work on my own. I have friends who had to work for others, to raise their kids, and that's OK, but I have the freedom to control my own life.

Anyways probably is different here, my generation was born and raised under a very cruel right wing military dictatorship, so we have a lot to be anger with, though we manage to do things in other ways now, but some of us still works for culture and freedom.

Please excuse my terrible redaction, english is not my native language