Came across this article on CNN.com ... thought I'd pass it along to you happy-go-lucky civil servants 🙂

Median pay: $43,200
% who say their job is stressful: 72%

Social workers step in when everyone else steps aside to help people and families in vulnerable situations. They provide patients with education and counseling, advise care givers and make referrals for other services. And with social workers in short supply and programs underfunded, few must juggle the work of many, while reaping little reward.

Just ask Heather Griffith, a social worker who works with children in intensive foster care in Boston: "You're getting paid $12 an hour and kids are screaming at you, telling you that you are just in it for the money and you're just like, really?"

http://money.cnn.com/galleries/2009/pf/0910/gallery.stressful_jobs/index.html?cnn=yes

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