I was in constant demand, in my professional life and my personal life.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Sometimes you're in great demand. Then suddenly your career hits the breaks.
I got the first job and kept going. Once I got a job, I very much wanted to keep getting jobs, basically. I did try to learn what I could in those first couple of decades.
My career's been a steady, interesting, weird, frustrating, fun journey at all different times.
I wanted to keep working because work was essentially fantastic - you got to be around people, you got to be in a family, and that family changed from job to job. It was like being in the circus.
It changed my life in a lot of ways - before I got that role I was just going from job to job, not really having enough money to be able to do what I wanted to do.
I've had to change careers several times. Sometimes because my interests changed. Sometimes because all bridges have been burned beyond recognition, sometimes because I desperately needed money. And sometimes just because I hated everyone in my old career or they hated me.
It's taken me a long time to get back into the industry. People were not really open to me working, or being a part of the industry.
Like actors and writers who are on and off again in terms of employment, I had a very unstructured life.
I worked full time jobs, basically doing manual labor until I could make enough money supporting myself as a musician.
The choices of roles I made had to do with educating and entertaining. And as a result I found myself working only every two or three years.