u/Any_Brief_7412

I lost my job of almost 20 years because my position was eliminated due to sales, I did computer programming for a printing company. I am actually excited to try something completely different outside the tech world. I want to do something meaningful and not be sitting at the desk. I am 49 and female. I just applied to my city for a police recruit position. I am still in the beginning state waiting to take my NTN exam this week. I just have a few questions though on the background check, I am way overthinking things, but need to make sure I do everything correct. I am overly honest to the point where it might be silly on the things I think I should list. I have never done illegal drugs, only tried a legal gummy one time in my life, I did shoplift at 13-14 years old and not caught, drank a few drinks and drove at 21 and early 30's a few times. I plan on listing all of that, but then my mind wonders if I need to list so many minor things like returning things too much, signing up for coupons under different emails so I can use the coupon again, taking advantage of satisfaction guarantee or money back things, having a rooster when I shouldn't have one but my neighbors are fine with it, suspended in 7th grade for kicking a boy when he said perverted stuff to me, lying to my boss about my personal life because he was too nosey so I didn't want to tell him stuff. Are those things to be listed? If so there are probably even more, I mean I am not perfect, but some of this stuff is SO minor, how much do they want to hear? I guess I am worried if I get to the polygraph and they ask me is there anything else you didn't tell us on the form, well yes, there are tons of little things but I can't think of all of them. I feel like I have to tell them about the rooster since my social media page shows him right? I don't think that's a crime, it's just a city violation. Any advice would be great on this because I am a really kind person who treats people so good and don't want to ruin this chance over not doing this correctly.