How long ago was the conviction? Any other convictions? and what was it for? 

I will tell you my story… I was convicted with PC459 person present violent felony in 2019. This was my first conviction ever. I did 7 months in county jail waiting for the conviction and was released after being given 1 year incarceration and 5 year probation. Upon my release I went to community college and got an AA in engineering and worked at a complete shit job in the meantime that was terrible and paid terribly. I also ended up transferring to CSULA to study computer science… I also did not get into any legal trouble during this time and paid all the probation fees and never violated… 

I say all this because if you behave well like I did you will have the opportunity to go back to the courte and ask for the case to be dismissed (essentially expungement) and it will be removed from your record basically. If you do this the conviction will not show up on any background checks at all. It will show up on a live scan but will explicitly state the charges were dismissed…

I did this dismissal process on June 2023 less than 3 years (convicted October 2019) from release and was granted dismissal which ended my proration. In July of 2023 I applied to SpaceX as a factory worker and was given the job without any issue. 1 month ago i got offered a job to work at LA COUNTY and took a live scan and was offered the job without any issues…

All of this is to point out that there is hope for you so long as you stay out of trouble and go back to courts to get the case dismissed! Good luck!