Which sentence best paraphrases the following material: “Eve…

Which sentence best paraphrases the following material: “Every potential employer I met with seemed only interested in the fact that I was a convicted felon. They didn’t care that I’d proven myself in some of L.A.’s best kitchens or that I really could cook. They definitely didn’t care that I had a wife and two young children to support, and that I’d spent the last of our savings on a one-way ticket to the desert hoping to restart my career. A week into my search, every hotel on the strip had turned me down.” (p. 1 of Jeff Henderson’s Cooked)