June Challenge: Day 6: What do you do?

Day 6, Thursday:  If I couldn't answer with my job, how would I answer the question, 'what do you do'?

What do I do? I guess that is the question.

My work is such a big part of who I am that it is really hard to answer the question without referring to it. I mean, I work 6 days a week including evenings as standard which leaves very little time for anything else. However I love my job and all it entails, something which I have really learned about myself this week, and therefore I don't mind having more work in my work/life balance than I am sure is healthy. 

However my role is not who I am, because this is something that I have only been for a number of years when in actual fact who I am is who I've been since I was a small child. 

So what do I do? Who am I? I am a storyteller. 

I've been telling stories in various forms since I was little. I wrote my first short story aged 5 and I was the child constantly making up playground games of fictional characters back in primary school. I used to tell the younger kids stories to captivate them and by the time I started secondary school the middle parts of all my exercise books were filled with random extracts of stories that fill my head. Now when I am sitting in silence inside my mind there are fictional characters having conversations, and I spend my life watching the world around me for story ideas. Every single thing that occurs around me influences my storytelling and my brain never ever shuts off from the madness of ideas and script snippets going round and round inside my head. 

I make up stories from the moment I open my eyes in the morning to the moment I close them in the early hours of the next. It is very much part of who I am. My career plan is to become a scriptwriter, I want to tell stories for a living every single day. 

So what do I do? I am a storyteller. I tell stories every single day. I'm happy that way.