Ruminations on a job

--David recently said to me after I had told him a story from work that I was always there on people's most important day of their lives (being a Labor & Delivery nurse). I had never thought of my job in quite that way before, and now it seems somewhat strange to me.

--In nursing school, our professors assured us that within a year of being a nurse we would all probably be preceptors (trainer, mentor, resource) for new grad nurses as well as charge nurse of whatever unit we were working in. I am about to finish being a preceptor, and next week I start getting trained to be charge. Yikes! I wish that I had taken my professors more seriously!