By ADRIAN FLORIDO

Voice of San Diego

Since he was released from prison in December, Harold Johnson has been looking for work -- as a cook, a janitor, a dish washer, at any place that will take him, at any wage. "I'll do anything, man," he said one day last week, exasperation in his voice and a slump in his posture. Bus rides as far away as Oceanside from his girlfriend's southeastern San Diego home have not yielded a single offer.

"It's been rough. Real rough," Johnson said of the search. "All day, every day."

Johnson is a 56-year-old convicted bank robber on parole looking for only the second job of his adult life. He was fired from his first as a fire watchman for Nassco last summer after his employer learned he had more felony convictions on his record than he'd revealed on his application. The application only asked for disclosure of convictions from the last seven years, Johnson said. A few months later, he was sent back to prison for two weeks when an officer found a knife in the car he was riding in.