Inmate who couldn't find a job because of the tattoo DEVAST8 across his face has now received 45 job offers

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A teenage father with 'DEVAST8' tattooed across his face is 'waiting for the right job offer' after his desperate plea for work went viral - and he has revealed he will be getting the jailhouse ink lasered off.

Mark Cropp, 19, from New Zealand, took to social media on Wednesday afternoon to beg someone to look past his criminal convictions and heavily-tattooed face and give him a chance at work.
Within hours he had been inundated with job offers and said he had 'stopped counting when he reached 45'.

But he told Daily Mail Australia he still hadn't 'done a day's work'.
'I am just waiting for the right one to come about,' he said.

Some of the jobs required him to have his own car - he clarified - but he will need help getting to the work site.
'Until I get my first paycheck and get a car I won't be able to get myself around,' he said.
The former criminal revealed he will be getting the artwork - designed by his brother after a night of drinking home brew in jail - removed as soon as possible.

'I am just working out a date to get it taken off - which sucks because it is going to hurt,' he said.
'And because, you know, this tattoo means something to me and my brother did it for me so it is hard to make the decision to get rid of it.
'But I know it is the best thing for my future - and I want to be a person my family can look to for support.'
The artwork was designed to make him 'look tough' when he landed in jail following a long string of violent behaviour.