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My Office Needs Work – 3 Solutions.

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I hate working in my “office”.

The area is in my bedroom.

Never understood why or how I hate it, I just do. It’s a closet, with two monitors and a desk. Above me there is two shelves that hold a bunch of old papers that I don’t care to read and above them is another shelf of papers I REALLY don’t care to read.

I built this office and mid-sized PC to do heavy-duty work. I can’t keep going to the coffee shop everyday. So, some solutions.

 

  • GTD – I looked into GTD in the office, and the implementation was successful. It reinvigorated my organization skills, and I soon found myself on top of everything I had due or projects I wanted to tackle.  I have never, ever, put any system into my personal writing, projects, or art. It is time-consuming to get started, but it takes a ton off the top of your mind.  I am going to do the leg work today and do the final implementation when I grab the book from the office.
  • A Sheet – I get distracted easily and part of the reason is that my bedroom has reminders of different functions and I can hear any music or TV happening (I don’t have a TV in my room but my living room isn’t too far away). I will roll a sheet down and put on my headphones with a mix – I have to put the blinders on and get to the races.
  • Certified to-do / single tasking – I need to have reminders of my current todo’s avail in front of me. Physical reminders help as well, so, especially after the GTD implementation, I will place rubber bands and a cup and get to work. I think it will help keep me focused and give some meaning to the office in front of me.

 

 

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Description:The Coffee Cup

The coffee cup is full of pens,pencils, objects that look the same. A straw pokes out, almost giving it some contrast with the pens that surround it.  There is green lining that surrounds the top of the cup, which stands out against the white frame. Its dirty on the outside, not with food, but with dust. It has been a while since this cup held liquid. The handle is the same color as the green lining.

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Description: My Phone In A Paragraph

Describing things for the next few days – working on a different muscle.

The old-fashioned office phone. The phone line runs out the office into the door outside, lined across the bottom of the floor. It could be a tripping hazard, if not for the tremendous slack it has.  The phone is black, and compared to mobile phones now, a relic. It is 6 inches by 8 inches, dusty from a lack of care. A monochrome screen is on the top center, and under it, white letters on black buttons noting important “features” like  DIR (Directory) and CID (Caller ID). In the middle are the standard numbers, and to the right, some different looking buttons, clear that allow you to mute or put the phone on speaker. Different volume nobs sit at the side, adjusting the volume of the ringer and the phone. Scratches are on the top of the receiver, as if the phone has been around for a while. A short code connects it to the black base of the phone.

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Description: My Office In A Paragraph

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Today I am writing a paragraph describing something in my apartment.I want to try some descriptive writing and no better place to start than here. 

As I walk in my room and turn to the right, two doors are usually ajar. What was a closet is now an office, where two white boards, each taking a door, hang on Velcro straps, marked with information such as dates on a calendar or a morning routine notice . At eye level, a group of papers, a stack of waiter pads, and a portable USB mic and above them lie some older papers and notes. Post-It notes line the walls to the right, and to the left nothing. There is a small desk at seat level that squeezes inside the reformed closet doors, and on it lie a phone, two monitors, and a cup of pens. Various knickknacks cover the desk, but its appearance is clean. On the floor lies a PC tower that hums quietly on the inside of the desk opening. The cords running this operation run from a single extension cord, its individual cords covered by a box making them neat, and run to the outlet outside the closet. The doors can close, albeit barely, to cover all of this.

 

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Daily Rumblings – Webcam Aren’t Really Productive.

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Webcams are pretty interesting. For those who are so inclined, they offer a tool that can let people discuss things in real time, with real people. It takes away some of the mystery of the people your talking to. You can really see if they are doing what they say, read body language, and feel like your having a real conversation.

But they don’t do that most of the time, now do they.

For people like me (and I am going to assume that all of you are like me, just for a moment), that they allow for the freaky part of your mind to wander. Lets take a moment and put you in a situation.

You call your parents via Skype, and tell them about your life’s latest happenings and all that. You have a wonderful conversation, getting a good vibe, knowing that life is well. You hang up and go about your business.

or

Your in your office, and your boss calls you, and brings you into a conference that is happening down the block among the other bosses in the company. After a short meeting, you find out that you have been promoted. After giving you the short list of the benefits they transfer you to HR to let you know whats going on.

THIS NEVER HAPPENS.

  1. Scenario One
    1. Your parents DON’T have a webcam – No, they don’t. This is the honest truth. This should be #1
    2. Even if they have a webcam – They don’t know what the hell a Skype or Oovoo is.
    3. You wouldn’t be bothered – Spare me, you know you don’t talk to your parents everyday, your too busy doing hoodrat stuff.
    4. Your parent’s wouldn’t be bothered – Even if they did have the stuff( which I am sure you set up, because your that awesome [ lets just go with this here]) they would spend half the time complaining because the conversation could have been solved over the phone.
    5. Your parent’s hate you/ You Hate Your Parents – Your the one that ran away from home after college because you wanted freedom. They resent you for it, believe me.
  2. Scenario Two
    1. No company is EVER that efficient. – They wouldn’t even do that at Google. Your POS company really isn’t going to spring for that.
    2. Your bosses don’t think – You have seen Dilbert and The Office. It’s really like that.
    3. You don’t do any work at work – Even if this were to happen, wouldn’t you have to wipe the cheetos off your mouth and actually answer it while looking busy. Lets be real, you don’t do anything at work anyway.
    4. HR doesn’t know who you are – They are wayyyy to busy trying to meet their quotas for that next contract.
    5. You hate your job  – And it hates you. Like 1% of the world actually likes their job. The rest are lying to themselves to get out of bed in the morning

Lets look at whats really happening on these services.

  1. Stupid Conversations – Really, these are simply here to get to the next point.
  2. Intimate Conversations – These are here to get to the next point
  3. Freaky Deaky – Self Explanatory.

Some may skip those steps, but lets be real, what were you thinking about when you bought that webcam? Was it teleconferencing, or being nashtay?

If you don’t believe me, there is always chatroulette to prove my point.

Links, if you are into that sort of thing.

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