I find the workload of what I do sufficiently great that when the term of court starts, I undergo a sort of annual intellectual lobotomy.
Any staff that works 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, is bound to get burned out.
It's a lot of a workload doing an hour dramatic show. It's just incredible what little time off you get.
Work at first rescues us, then ravages us.
Everyone that works knows that work is hard sometimes.
Even in normal times, a senior cabinet minister faces a workload that is relentless and crushing.
My first obligation is my job. It's very hard to really get into campaign mode when you've got to focus on doing the work.
And so while the great ones depart to their dinner, the secretary stays, growing thinner and thinner, racking his brain to record and report what he thinks that they think that they ought to have thought.
I want to keep my clients happy, and the pressure's on me as the boss to manage my three assistants and make sure that everything is getting done. There's less time for tears and more time for bossing people around.
Management is a seven-days-a-week job. The Intensity of it takes it toll on your health. Some people want to go on for ever, and I obviously don't.
I've seen a lot of teachers come and go, and you do three or four years, and it's exhausting.
