Like most people my age, my job is the main focus of my life. I don't have some kind of jet-setting fabulous lifestyle where I'm constantly in situations to acquire amazing anecdotes, that's it.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
I've tried in my career to do most everything, because it all intrigues me. And I've found the first time I work in a new form, I discover all the things that make that an exciting medium. I've been very busy most of my career. I've had very few vacations.
Everything that I do has to be something new and something challenging, or with people that I want to work with. I take jobs for different reasons.
It's a really wonderful thing to focus your life on something other than your own personal career and ambition.
I tell everyone I interact with what I'm working on and let them bring me anecdotes that illustrate my themes.
I come to work on time. I focus on my job. I bust my scenes out and everything else kind of happens from there.
The thing I love most about my job is watching people age backward, becoming more lively and energetic as they free themselves from situations that are toxic to their essential selves.
An outgrowth of having a long career is that I have a lot of interesting things around that I get to revisit, and someday get to the place where they become something that I want to do next.
I have made a career of bumbling around places, stumbling on landmarks and generally being quite haphazard and shambolic about the way I go about things.
My job is to have empathy and curiosity for things that I've never done. Also, I'm a person whom people talk to.
A lot of my work comes from my life experiences.
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