Work on your craft, and your career will come. Work on your community, and your career will come. But just work on your career, and you'll have neither a craft nor a community.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Community through food is my mission; it is what I do.
One of the most important parts of my life has been community.
Work for most people is really very social, and the actual thinking is often done in community.
The advice that I can give anyone wanting to be in the biz: do all the work, learn your craft. There are no shortcuts. If you stay with it, you will get an opportunity.
Doing good for the community is something that should be a part of who you are. The more you get, the more you should give back.
As you reach more people, there is a potential to make a living with what you are creating, and that's the goal.
A community is a group of people who have come together, and they work and they live to try and improve the standard of living and quality of life - and I don't mean money.
I don't know if I have a career or not, or where it ends or it begins. I have been working, doing what I do for a long time. But my creative process has always been so tortuous.
There were a lot of years that I was trying to do things that other people wanted me to do. But you have to follow your heart. Believe that you have a unique group of talents and abilities that are going to allow you to accomplish something in an area that interests you. Work at that and try to make some kind of contribution to your community.
If there's no craft there, then once the looks go, there goes your career.