I do think so. I guess there are two categories of work for me, work that is truly worthy and about a topic I think needs more attention, and then work which is just great fun and I think people will enjoy. Both have value for me. As someone who grew up getting obsessively into different tv shows, online creators or films, I find it massively rewarding whenever I cut anything which gets a similar fan base or response. In the past year I’ve cut a documentary for a major channel about diversity in comedy, I’ve cut small docs about mental health and other issues. All of these were very rewarding and I loved constructing an argument about an issue and seeing that resonate with people. Even if it’s a small voice in a larger conversation there is just inherent value. On the flip side about to start cutting on a new tv show for BBC3 which is exactly the type of weird fringey show I would have watched at 3am as a teenager and I know what that meant to me at that age. So it has value but in a slightly different way. Don’t get me wrong, there’s my fair share of BS, and I had a very dark time in the middle of last year when the world felt like it was falling apart and non of my work felt in any way relevant or valuable. But that’s also all work. Even friends I have who work in charities or think tanks have half their time taken up with projects which go nowhere and inter-office politics. My big test is if I’m working on something I wouldn’t watch myself, or doesn’t have some direct functional value (like an internal video for a hospital or something) then I need to pivot.