My overly cluttered workspace
By blog on Apr. 24, 2009.
Its a wonder I can find my keyboard at all these days, if it weren’t for that little drawer that slides out, I know I wouldn’t find it or my mouse.
You see, when one works from home, they need to have all the necessary accouterments that one would find in an office. I am lucky in that I can buy my stationary supplies online, but once I get them home, then I am stumped as to where to put all this stuff. I know I need it, even if I don’t need it often, so I need to keep it in a place where I know I won’t forget where I put it.
Why is it that all of this stuff is necessary, that we are commonly aware it is necessary, and yet your average computer desk is 150cm long and 90cm wide!? You also have to fit on there the monitor and speakers, and all the stuff that doesn’t live elsewhere so ends up living on your desk making more clutter and mess. I am looking over my tea cup, box of tissues, and pieces of paper that seemed important, right until I decide to drop them in the bin, and I think… I could use more drawers! I have one. One drawer. All that stuff, all those necessary pieces of office equipment, and I have one, little, drawer… One little drawer!
Right now on my desk in front of me, along with the items mentioned above, I have a lamp, a notebook, a few pens, one stapler, my office printer, a neat little paper shredder, and my phone with fax machine included set up! And it isn’t a very big desk!
I think if I were to design my own desk, it would be huge! It would be ‘U’ shaped so I could feel all secure in there, everything within reach… like an office boat! Of course, then there is the issue of finding a large enough room for my giant awesome office boat, an open, vast airy space where my desk was in the middle, but it would be worth it, wouldn’t it? Just to be rid of all the clutter on my desk.
Category: Technology