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I just want to know as to following. "I am always doing" is not viable as a sentence. What does this mean? Also, is this ridiculous sentence?

UPDATE: Then what about this? What if someone asking me and he is always criticising everything I do, Are you still cutting the meat? Then yes! I'm doing. Is this wrong? 

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I am doing is not a complete sentence; we need to know what the speaker is doing before the sentence has sense and meaning.

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    I have confirmed that you cannot use I am always doing as a complete sentence.
    – tunny
    Commented Nov 21, 2014 at 14:10
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    If you wanted to say that you're not a person to whom being idle comes easily, you can say "I'm always doing something or other."
    – TimR
    Commented Nov 21, 2014 at 14:17
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    @Carter. Yes, it is wrong. I told you in my answer that we need to know what the speaker is doing before the sentence has sense and meaning.
    – tunny
    Commented Nov 21, 2014 at 14:18
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    I'm always doing, with a strong emphasis to mark the unusual use, can mean I'm never idle. A once very famous poem exhorted readers "Let us, then, be up and doing, With a heart for any fate; Still achieving, still pursuing, Learn to labor and to wait."
    – StoneyB on hiatus
    Commented Nov 21, 2014 at 14:20
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    @Carter To "Are you still cutting the meat?" you answer Yes, I am! or Yes, I still am or Yes, I'm still doing that.
    – StoneyB on hiatus
    Commented Nov 21, 2014 at 14:32

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