The question
How do you balance creative work with other responsibilities?Originally asked
The Creative Independent, to working artists, its interview series
The Creative Independent repeatedly asks working artists how they divide time between creative practice and administrative, family, or second-job obligations.
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This time I wanted to live a bit more, which is why I wanted to do it in London. I didn’t want to entirely give up my social life, my personal life. I didn’t want it to become a 24/7 thing for me. I got to go home at night to my own home and maybe go out to drink with a mate or spend time with my dog and my partner.
T. Cole Rachel, Conversation, The Creative Independent, 23 January 2017 source ↗
My wife and I have always tried to explain to the girls — even when I had to go off on nine-month cruises in the Mediterranean or in the Pacific — why I was doing it, and what it was all about, that I felt that I could contribute to the military.
All the damn time, it comes with the territory. My family valiantly put up with most of them. Though the older I get, the bolder I am about saying no.
That's always been a tough thing. I've always struggled with staying present and not worrying too much about the future or the past. I'm always either dwelling on the past, or missing the past, or worrying about the future. So that's been a big challenge, because this type of lifestyle goes extremely fast.
I needed to physically be totally alone and be in a different place to get going.
There is no getting around the work requirement. Also, the creative side is only part of the work. I work really hard.
I wanted to get into music, I was answering ads in the paper, crazy stuff, really. I met people in a band, [and] ended up going to Antwerp, Belgium.
Most recently, when I was tobogganing in Italy.
That episode of Succession, probably because it reminded me of my dad.
Love is everything.
Making my passion into a career.
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