I need to feel like the work I'm doing is not necessarily important, but meaningful, at least to me, because otherwise it just becomes a day job. It just becomes factory work and I get really frustrated.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
It's incredibly hard to get meaningful work done when your workday has been shredded into work moments.
I think it's fun to have work that you can relate to, that you can feel like is meaningful.
I don't have to be working every moment. Why turn something good into a hard job? It's more special when it's not a daily occurrence. It doesn't cheapen it so much.
I always have a lot of things going on because some things take years to make and others take five minutes. I like that there's always something going on. Working doesn't have such a momentous feel - like it's all or nothing.
I'm a bit of a workaholic. When I feel like I'm not doing something, it drives me insane.
When work seems like a job, I don't do it anymore. I always want it to be something I'm interested in and something that challenges me.
I think I've realized that when you are aiming to create a real body of work, you are as much defined by the things you don't do as by the things you do.
When I work, I work very hard. When I don't work, I have to do something where my endeavor can totally take me off what I do professionally, like sailing. It takes all your attention.
When I do work, I feel the same sort of urgency as I ever did. If I didn't feel that, I don't think I would wish to be doing it. I wouldn't really see the point.
I think I'm realising more and more that I've got a job to do and I can't be doing the big nights out and working to my full potential the next day. I feel much better for it.