Dear Steve....<br /><br />Well, it took me twenty years of nursing and a great deal of forensic training to end up in my position....and, even though I get paid for being on call and often there is nothing, you&#39;d be surprised at how few people are willing to work in the sexual abuse field, to carry a pager, and know that, at any minute, your day or night might be interrupted and you might not be home for ten - 20 hours.  I remember once, I didn&#39;t leave the San Francisco General ER for 36 hours.  Ten years ago, I could do all night cases and then work all day, without too much trouble but, boy, at 63, it&#39;s much harder.<br /><br />I had to laugh when one of our retiring detectives said that he&#39;d spent more New Year&#39;s eves with me in fifteen years than he had with his wife...and they were no fun at all&#33;