Advantages
- You will have a good paying job that will support your family.
- Can work in the indoor or outdoor environment with the inmates.
- Correctional Officer's work 8 hours a day, 5 days a week
- Must have good leadership skills and good problem-solving.
- It will help if a correctional officer has a good scence of humor.
- Can develop many different skills from beign a correctional officer that can be used in other occupations this can include good communication, supervisory, problem-solving and good writing skills.
- Can travel throughout career.
- This field can lead you into a high correction facilities
Disadvantages
- Officer's can get a great deal of stress.
- Rotating shifts with working night, early morning, weekends and even holiday shifts.
- Some offices have in injured or a few have been killed by the dangerous inmates.
- Outdoor conditions can be miserbale, by watching in a guard tower in the cold or wet weather for several hours.
Excellent work. Looks like you know where you are headed! It looks like a tough job, I think it would be emotionall draining.
ReplyDeleteThanks. I really like this job that I want to go to in my future.
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