I work from home. Yes... the pandemic sent me here, but I had been wanting to come home to work for a long while and wasn't sure how I was going to stand going into the office for several more years till I retire, I have to say, in that respect, the pandemic has been good to me. (It made me laugh again to type that.)
Since my work computer has to be connected straight into my modem (no wireless for security reasons).....there was only one corner for my computer to go (which started out as a long side table from my living room at first, because the decision was made in one day that I should come home ! No time to prepare !)... unless I wanted to have the cable rewired, which I didn't....and that place was in my spare bedroom. I call it that, but it is not a bedroom. Since I moved here from a larger house, the room had been a storage nightmare room. It was nearly to the ceiling at first, but through the last couple of years it had been gone through many times, reducing, reducing... .reducing, but never quite completed.
At first I was in just a corner with a path from the door to across the room. LOL !! I didn't mind, I was home !! Since then, more organizing and reducing till one side of the room is functional now. My work computer, phone and two monitors are on a desk/table that I bought since then, with a desk chair that I also purchased. It is in a corner beside the only window in the room, so although I am facing the wall, a slight glance to the right lets me see out into my back yard. In the winter I can see the bird feeders from there (and the squirrels raiding the feeders !)
Above the monitors and on the wall to the left is art, not mine except one piece, the others from other amateur artists I've bought from or who have gifted me with fun art..... and a round stained glass mirror. Happy things, to help keep me balanced while I do work, that although is not amazingly hard with rare exceptions, but is pushed and rushed and.... a bit stressful. Back in my younger days it would probably not have felt too stressful, but now in my older years, I feel it a little more.
Behind me, the other half of the room still has extra dining chairs, lots of my art and empty canvases and a little more stuff that still needs to be resolved, but it disappears because I can't see it while I am working and am too busy to consciously acknowledge it.
It's good.... it's VERY good.
Erm, I don't know about others here but I want your work space! Gimme! Lol.
Sounds pretty legit to be honest and it's interesting to see how it evolved from a serviceable workspace that you clearly feel comfortable in. I really wish I could work from anywhere so I could be anywhere in the world. I have a few ideas where I'd like to be too! I mean most of my work can happen with connected computer and a MFC (scanner/printer) although I have to see clients also so have to go where they are at times. I'd like to work with birds and squirrels though....Seems like a nice place to work.
#notjealous #amjeaolous
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