'My job is super stressful and it pays badly, too'

I'm a correctional officer. I worked for the West Virginia Regional Jail Authority in a maximum security prison for more than seven years. You start out at $22,584 per year.

That job was stressful because of the hostility you encounter with inmates and from supervisors unwilling to do the job properly or allow their subordinates to do it either.

Officers work nights, weekends, and holidays. Your days off and schedule can be changed for any reason. You can be in the parking lot, getting into your car to go home and they come running up to tell you that you have to work another shift. You can be loading the car, getting ready to leave for your vacation, and you get a call telling you your time off has been canceled. My husband, Ed, is also a correctional officer so we're both hit by that.

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The risk of assault, bodily injury, lack of integrity among management, and low pay make this job highly stressful.

When you go into work, you don't know when you're going home that day; you don't know if you're going home that day.

We both now work in a minimum security facility, which is a lot less stressful.