“It’s ironic because you have this job where, in one sense, you don’t really want anything to happen, but then again you’re trained for whenever something does happen. We don’t really want anything...

“I never planned on being a school nurse at all. I like the technical side of it; I like the procedures and things like that, and I ended up here. It wasn’t my original thing. I wanted to work in OR’s....

  “Even before I started looking into this role, there was kind-of an outdated vision of what a librarian is －which is why we are called library media specialists now because so much has changed－you...

“My background was actually in business. I didn’t want to get into education at all, but if I’m ever going to teach, it’d be business. I started working as a clerk in a library for Fort Zumwalt...

  “I think we just do a lot more behind-the-scenes work than most people realize. They see us sitting at the desk a lot of times, or Mrs. Head, they see her sitting in the office working but...

“[My job] is rewarding. [I] feel good that I’m able to  help students, help families. And not that I’m some great person that needs a pat on the back, but it’s just because I’ve been in the...

  “When I was in high school, I was always in the guidance office and I really just wanted to be a counselor, so when I got to college, it just kind of re-confirmed that I wanted [to help] students...

  “I like helping people. When I was first going into college, I didn’t know what I wanted to do, but I [thought], if I could just find a job where I just help people, just help people work...

  “Everybody has a story. Being able to listen to a person’s story is important because that’s their life. People come in here when they’re teachers or students and they’re talking to...

“My favorite part of my job is definitely seeing my students succeed, whether it’s getting good grades, overcoming a problem, or getting into college. It’s a really good feeling to know I had a part...

  “I spend a lot of time doing different things everyday, it seems like. I spend a lot of time coordinating things for students, talking to students that are either struggling in class or struggling...

“I think with counselors in general, there’s a lot of stuff that we do that nobody sees, so sometimes people say, ‘I don’t know my counselor, I’m not sure what all they’re doing,’ and that’s...