Well GF I'm 29 and my license has been suspended for the last year and a half because of a DUI which counted as my 2nd because I had a previous wet and reckless. It was a bad ordeal, helped me to get sober for like 7 months. Honestly man it's been absolute ****. The fines, court, the DUI classes, taking the bus. I definitly messed up and have been paying for my crime for a while now. Mind you, I still drove (not recommended but many do it) and luckily never got caught considering I was driving into the ghetto almost every other day to score.
Being sober during court was helpful and I received good behavior benefits from going to AA meetings and so on. The AA fellowship was also a great help. I tried really hard to see the positive and see that 2nd DUI as a life saving event, but eventually my optimism slipped into depression and I began to see it as just another time I got caught. My DUI happened June 4th 2013 and I still don't have a restricted license and I can't get my actual license until September. Mostly because of my disease and no money left over to pay for insurance, gas, breathalizer in my car, dui classes, dmv fees. The system ***** you, no doubt about it. Yeah it's good you didn't kill anyone, but you still got caught and are now going to be treated as if you got behind the wheel intending to kill someone.
It's sucked and like others have said all we can do is quit drinking and we won't have to relive this again. As if it were that easy, hell, now that I can't drive and I'm at home all the time drinking is about the only useful thing to help pass the time. And this is coming from someone who has been clean and sober for the last 3 months. Honestly if I were you I'd keep drinking if you can because whenever I get sober time slows to a halt. Part of the reason this last year and a half has felt like forever was because I was sober for a better part of it. Sorry if my suggestion to drink to pass the days and the time/boredom is terrible advice to give someone with a drinking problem, I'm just being brutally honest and saying it how I see it. You can either get through all this ******** sober or drunk, if you really want to hate your life and feel the full weight of your consequences, do it sober.