When you work in the criminal justice system, do you know what it is like to be a "client" in the criminal justice system? Should you know what it is like to be processed through the very system you work in? Lake County Sheriff Mark Curran will be walking as an inmate through the Lake County Jail this week. He will participate in jail activities not as the Sheriff, but as a "client". What is the expression, "you never know what it is like for someone else until you walk in another person shoes"? Therefore, if you work with client offenders in the jail everyday, shouldn't you know what it is like to walk in their shoes through the criminal justice system? The best way to learn the real perspective, and how systems and processed really work is to experience them yourself. Whether you are looking for a new job, or going to school for a new career, you should spend an hour, a day, a week doing that job. Fieldwork and job shadowing should be a major part of your job hunt or education.