The Coronavirus has given many us an opportunity to pause and think about life, our purpose, and even the right work life balance. What’s your perspective and has it changed over time?

Lucinda Luvaas | Multimedia artist

My work and my life are totally one and the same. You need to feel that what you do defines you–that you are fed by whatever it is that you do. For me: it was the arts in general and visual art and film in particular. I knew from early on that these were the two things that would fulfill my balance and my life as a whole. Read more>>

Minami Moriyama | Focus Puller

I’m very fortunate that I can do what I love. It is like a child playing a game. I used to think that I wish I could work more and more without thinking about other things. But my mind for work-life balance has been gradually changing over time. Probably, I’m getting older and also getting more responsibility involved with work and personal life. Read more>>

Jason Ryu | Jazz Trombonist, Composer & Arranger

My work life balance has stayed somewhat consistent over the 5 semesters here at Berklee. However, what I do in my free time changed drastically, and it definitely changed me as a person and a musician. I used to be an introvert who preferred to be in my room watching Netflix or work out in the gym alone. Read more>>

Alex Gonzales | Music Producer and Business Owner

My wife and friends will probably laugh reading this, I’m always busy and I add more businesses and projects into the mix, even though I’m most likely redlining. However, I still manage to make time for friends, family, health, and creativity. I view my life in the same way that I look at a pie chart. Read more>>

Victoria Mack | Owner & Founder

My balance has change tremendously, I had to learn over the years how to balance family, friends, a love life, work, running 3 self owned companies plus maintaining “me time” for myself, my faith in God has a lot to do with making things easier in my life, when I started trusting God more a lot of my work and life balance became so easy. Read more>>

Ashley Pinnick | Artist, Art Director & Game Developer

I used to overwork myself tremendously. I was a slave to my own perfectionism and imposter syndrome first starting in community college, then in art school at ArtCenter, and in my first few jobs as a creative professional. My perspective at the time was built upon a belief that I needed to do more than everyone around me in order to earn a seat at the table or be seen as competent. Read more>>

Hanbo Ma | Concert Pianist

I find that as a musician, the most interesting ideas or the most unexpected inspirations coms from random things in life, barely from a practice room. Of course, there are moment where I finally find something “clicked” while practicing a passage, but more often these moments happened in real life. Read more>>

Kevin Liu | Video Editor

Work life balance for me, as a creative, have always been difficult. It’s a never ending struggle of taking necessary breaks versus putting your head down and creating before the juice runs low. At the start, I did everything in my power to embrace what I had. I joined a high school broadcast club that creates daily shows to news packages where I finally found a place for myself. Read more>>