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Wednesday, June 9, 2010

Advantages & Disadvantages

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.


2 comments:

  1. Excellent work. Looks like you know where you are headed! It looks like a tough job, I think it would be emotionall draining.

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  2. Thanks. I really like this job that I want to go to in my future.

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