Good for you, Sarah:

When I first took a job at the Museum where I worked, the Director gave me some well-meaning advice. He said,"Make the Museum your life." I kinda muttered, "uh-huh" in my best teenager imitation, secretly saying to myself, "Not on your life!" I think that making your job your life is a dangerous thing. Maybe Mother Theresa could do it, but most people I've seen who made their jobs their lives neglected family, husbands or wives, friends and everyone around them. Then, when they retired, suddenly they had no life. It's a rare person who can say "my life is who I am." Maybe musicians can say that a little more honestly than most.

Jerry