During the financial armageddon, while jobs fled California and the economy there flagged, at least if you were a prison guard in the largest  prison system in the world (the bloated and piggish California Dept. of Corrections), your financial security was assured. You had to really screw up to get fired from that agency, and thanks to the Drug War, business (population of inmates) had been going up steadily for 40 years.

Woe, the stinging bite it must be to have the federal government abuse you for doing so well what the federal government has tasked you to do.