Or my AIA water mug, metaphoric for all the people that I’ve met via AIA over the years. Perhaps it’s my monitor stand, handmade by architect friend Paul Reynolds. With COVID-19, this is my new 24/7 workstation, so it’s staying pretty clean – which leaves my options limited. I try not to keep a lot on my desk, but it sometimes happens when work and L² get busy. So I have a rock, which as a metaphor represents the exact opposite of something heavy that weighs you down. I came back from that trip having been in more foreign countries than US states and that was when I decided that when I started my own family, traveling and exposing my children (non-existent at this time mind you) to different cultures and people so that they could learn that things exist beyond their day-to-day experiences was going to be important. During my childhood, my family rarely took vacations and if you drew a straight line between Dallas, Texas and Minneota, Minnesota you will know just about every place I had ever traveled to prior to studying abroad when I was in college and 20 years old. This particular rock was collected on a family vacation taken years ago while I was exploring a coastal edge with my family. What this rock represents is the whybehind why I work as much as I do. I like the white line that runs completely around it but that’s not actually the reason why I like this particular rock – it’s for what this rock represents.Īs a rule, architects tend to work a lot and when you write a blog and record a podcast on top of your regular day job as an architect, at times it seems like all you do is work. Mine happens to be the one to the left side of the image above. What I received back was pretty interesting – have a look for yourself but I think it’s only fair that I kick things off by answering the same question I presented to everyone else.ĭid you know that I have a favorite rock? I’d like to think that since I am an architect, as an extension this means that other architects most likely have a favorite rock as well. I didn’t give particularly detailed instructions so as to allow people to determine for themselves what they might send along. So, it was that line of thinking that prompted me to send out a request through my Instagram stories asking people to send me a photo of the most important thing on their desk along with a description of why this thing was important to them. As I was setting up this make-shift workspace, I spent some time thinking about how common it is for people to personalize their workspace in some manner … maybe it’s just to help set the right frame of mind, or maybe it’s a way to find some comfort in an atypical situation that could last for some undetermined length. Wasn’t terrible for the most part but for the sake of my back and shoulders, I am thinking about doing a stealth-run up to the office to grab my desk chair. It worked fine for the first day, felt kinda weird on day two, and by the start of day three I had found a 6′ long folding table and had set up shop in my bedroom.
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My wife took over the office years ago, my daughter has a whole desk/cabinetry thing built into her bedroom, and I had my pick of the kitchen counter, the coffee table in front of the TV ( bad idea) or somewhere comfortable like my bed so that’s what I chose. I wasn’t actually under the covers like some lunatic, I was perched on top of a fully made bed … because I had nowhere else to go. I don’t know about the rest of you but for the first few days, I worked while sitting on the couch, or if I’m being completely transparent, from my bed.
I think we all know better now and it looks as though this current pandemic situation is going to keep a lot of us away from our permanent work environments and working at some make-shift office setups. When it was decided that my office would send everyone home and start this “work from home” period with enthusiasm, we were a little unsure how long this period would last. For the most part, I’m not talking about those people in today’s post. You will also receive a complimentary e-seal which is sent to you in email as tif, jpg, pdf, and dxf files.Making the change from a permanent desk at the office to a work-from-home desk requires a bit of transition unless you already work from home. We do offer a guarantee that our seals will meet your state specifications.
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