A day's work

Jerry Givens: I was responsible for putting 62 inmates to death in Virginia. I regret it deeply and now campaign to end capital punishment

Jenn Park-Mustacchio:I spend my time with dead bodies, cleaning them and preparing them for funerals. It's delicate work. Go ahead, ask me anything

Economists may have declared the recession over, but plenty of US families need help from their local food banks

Since the government shutdown began, many federal employees have been furloughed. For this special edition of our A Day's Work series, Marc Blackburn, a supervisory Park Ranger, explains what life without work has been like

Scott Barbour: One Direction stayed at the hotel for a week. We had several hundred teen girls trying to gain access to the guest floors

Suranga Mallawa: The Zaatari camp is the world's second largest, with 115,000 refugees. What would you like to know about my day's work?

Willio Lacomme: For me, there's no good day. I'm a part-time employee, although I often work close to 40 hours a week and don't get benefits

Dave Stieber: I grieved with my students after a classmate was killed, and have watched our school lose funding little by little. Any questions?

Tyson Cornfield has been working on oil rigs in northern Canada for five years. He'll answer questions today from 2pm to 4pm ET

Nancy Brenner: This is not a profession for wallflowers.' PR these days is a mix of emergency room triage, matchmaking and innovation