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Post of photo of your office or workspace! What are your working digs?

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^I like your chair. I could not function with all that stuff on my desk though...
Is that a home office or an uber-cozy work office?

Since I'm out of the lab, I've moved from a cubicle farm...to another cubicle farm. Yay.
 
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^ The chair looks cool but it is terribly uncomfortable. And a lot of people tell me they don't understand the clutter. I do accounting work so I don't really need that much desk space. I also feel more comfortable when I am surrounded by my own junk. I spent the last six years working at home so when I got this extra job, I brought some of my toys with me so it didn't feel so weird.
 
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I still can't believe you don't decorate!

You know, this is one of the noticeable things about this thread and workspaces in general - some people really do go all out to personalise their offices and others do nothing at all.

I'm one of the latter - I don't customise my office at work at all. Partly because I'm only there the equivalent of a few days a week and elsewhere for the rest of the time, but more because, well, it's just an office and I don't consider it (or work) any sort of extension of myself.

As long as I have all the essential bits of office furniture I need (desk, computer, a couple of easy chairs, a swivel chair and a regular chair, and the necessaries like pens, paper, a large window or two to let in some natural light, etc, etc), I really couldn't care less what the interior my office looks like.

I think if I made my office more personalised, I'd actually find it harder to focus (making it harder to get out of the office as quickly as possible by finishing whatever I need to do that day quickly). In fact, whenever I move into a new office, I tend to clear out as much random junk as I possibly can to minimise clutter.

But lots of others, both IRL and in this thread, really do try to make their offices feel "homely". It's interesting.
 
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^
But it still has to be dressed well, right?
 
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Nah, clean and tidy is enough. I wouldn't want it to outshine me, after all.
 
Re: Post of photo of your office or workspace! What are your working d

You know, this is one of the noticeable things about this thread and workspaces in general - some people really do go all out to personalise their offices and others do nothing at all.

I'm one of the latter - I don't customise my office at work at all. Partly because I'm only there the equivalent of a few days a week and elsewhere for the rest of the time, but more because, well, it's just an office and I don't consider it (or work) any sort of extension of myself.

As long as I have all the essential bits of office furniture I need (desk, computer, a couple of easy chairs, a swivel chair and a regular chair, and the necessaries like pens, paper, a large window or two to let in some natural light, etc, etc), I really couldn't care less what the interior my office looks like.

I think if I made my office more personalised, I'd actually find it harder to focus (making it harder to get out of the office as quickly as possible by finishing whatever I need to do that day quickly). In fact, whenever I move into a new office, I tend to clear out as much random junk as I possibly can to minimise clutter.

But lots of others, both IRL and in this thread, really do try to make their offices feel "homely". It's interesting.

Yeah, I'm the exact opposite. I don't have a picture, but I have a very big, comfy office with overstuffed couches, and lots of personal touches. I spend more time there than I do at home. I want to be comfortable.
 
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^ I spend a lot time at the office too. I also like to nest. And being an artist, it is in my blood to leave my mark where ever I go.
 
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Oh, ha ha.

(And what you don't know is this: I can't pee unless I am in my own bathroom or one that I feel comfortable in. That excludes the outdoors. :rommie:)
 
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^ I spend a lot time at the office too. I also like to nest. And being an artist, it is in my blood to leave my mark where ever I go.

Hmm, I must be doing it wrong then :p

If one looks beneath the nerf gun on my desk (which isn't really even mine, I inherited it from someone else and I'm more often the target then the one shooting it!) one will notice that most of it is actually occupied by a random pile of stuff that serves literally no purpose. Actually I'll probably have to clean it all off this week so I can fit the small HDTV on the desk (which is just off camera in the photo I took).

Some of the other artists I work with... well, they have much more purposeful collections around their desk then I have! I think most of the nerf equipment is owned by the programmers (for when they're "compiling" ;))
 
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I also have Wall-E, McCoy,Smurf and the TOS Enterprise hanging around as well. To the left we have the nerf gun and Marvin the Martian coffee mug. And last but not least, my McCoy wallpaper on the computer.

Where did you get the Marvin the Martian coffee mug from?

(love the wallpaper ;) )
 
Re: Post of photo of your office or workspace! What are your working d

^My sister gave the mug to me for Christmas ten years ago. I have no idea where it came from. Sorry. :(

And being an artist, it is in my blood to leave my mark where ever I go.

Hmm, I must be doing it wrong then :p

Well let me rephrase that: I am a visual artist. I have done interior design, set and costumes. I see a room or clothes that need help and BAM! I have to fix it.
 
Re: Post of photo of your office or workspace! What are your working d

/.../ I am a visual artist. I have done interior design, set and costumes. I see a room or clothes that need help and BAM! I have to fix it.
That's all well and good -I have no problem with that.

But

Your work place does make me think of the old sayings: "Less is More" and "Don't add, subtract" - If I were to allow even one purely decorative item on my desk I'd be burrowed under a mountain of knick-knack by end of the week :lol: -and that's not just me; many people I know are like this.
 
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^ Well to each his own. I happen to like all the crap on my desk. It brings a little joy into that windowless harshly lit white spartan box that someone laughingly calls an office. Besides that, the job is an overly stressful low wage suckfest so I need a little happy to keep from blowing my brains out with my nerf gun. :vulcan:
 
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I understand the need for personalizing the cybercube, I just couldn't do it... bit of ADD, bit of general messiness makes it impossible...
 
Re: Post of photo of your office or workspace! What are your working d

^I like your chair. I could not function with all that stuff on my desk though...
Is that a home office or an uber-cozy work office?

Since I'm out of the lab, I've moved from a cubicle farm...to another cubicle farm. Yay.

If that's directed at me, it's a work office at a university. My home office would, I guess, consist of a couch and a coffee table.
 
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AstroSmurf, I don't think your desk looks that crowded, and you have many of your decorative items off to one corner. It's cute. :) It wouldn't distract me personally. I have a Darth Tater and a Darth Goofy on the desk itself, and Cinderella, Ariel, and Tink (okay, so I love me some Disney) knick-knacks on the hutch overhead. There are two small candles and a little globe as well. I'm fine as long as things have a place and aren't just scattered all about. You seem to have your stuff organized.
 
Re: Post of photo of your office or workspace! What are your working d

^I like your chair. I could not function with all that stuff on my desk though...
Is that a home office or an uber-cozy work office?

Since I'm out of the lab, I've moved from a cubicle farm...to another cubicle farm. Yay.

If that's directed at me, it's a work office at a university. My home office would, I guess, consist of a couch and a coffee table.
That's quite the cozy office! I know people with apartments smaller than that. ;)
 
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I made a new friend at work today.



He sits on the wall above my desk. I call him Wilson.
 
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Being a full time student, I don't work in an office... but when I do any type of work, it's at my desk in my dorm... So on the off chance it counts, here's my little space.






Click to enlarge. :)
 
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