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My office is messy and I can't handle it...
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My Desk = MESSY. Others - mixed; most not as bad as mine. I deal, I like.
Since I work from home most often than not, it's not my office that's messy; it's my entire house!
Messy right now, to reflect the chaos that currently surrounds me.
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very messy, but i know where everything is so it works.
A clean office is an almost certain sign of degeneracy.
Mine is usually cluttered, it has ben quite clean for a couple weeks now. Kind of scary clean.
Scary, indeed, Jim. I don't think I've seen the surface of my desk in years.
I wonder if there's a correlation between booksters and messy desks. Perhaps readers are more likely to have heavy imaginations and those with heavy imaginations are more likely to have cluttered desks....
Dunno. I've been cluttering things up since before I knew how to read.
Maybe I should adopt that as my excuse for not cleaning up?
My office stays sort of neat and organized. I cannot stand to work in a cluttered environment. And I DEFINITELY can't stand having clutter on my desk. Cleaning/organizing the clutter almost always takes precedence over anything else on my priority list. If my desk gets cluttered during the day while I work (which happens most days), I will spend the last 15-20 minutes putting everything away and tidying up my space. I have a fairly good excuse for that, though - following HIPAA regulations and all, I typically work with sensitive material/documents that need to be locked up when I'm not at my desk.
My cubicle is usually messy nowadays. I used to have such a clean area someone from another department once asked me if I did any work. Now I don't have time to file things. I sit with five other people in my area, none that do what I do. Three that input all the products and pricing in our system, their cubes look like no one sits there. And two designers and they have paperwork, files, and product samples all over their cubes. We should post pics.
I work from piles. So my office looks very cluttered - and, in fact, would probably qualify as very cluttered. I would like to be more zen with my office and my house, but it just doesn't seem to be part of my personality.
I work at home as as novelist and editor, and I'm constantly surrounded by little yellow sticky notes and note pads with lists and lists of things to do. By the end of the week my long workspace is covered with papers and things to read and mail. But every Sunday, I purge, organize, and get ready for the next week. So at the moment, my desk is clean (yeah!), but it won't last long.
That's what I need, LJ - a more regular purging of the junk.
This morning I arrived at work, remembered I cleaned Friday, and felt immediately better with an organized office.
I have to clear out the hall closet. That always makes me feel so much better about life in general.
The world divides on this. I had a boss who never left anything on his desk. He touched each piece of paper only once and he filed each sheet away as soon as he stopped writing on it. His self=discipline was awesome.
My own desk, in contrast, is always invisible beneath a sea of paper. And I spend too much time on Goodreads.
My boss thinks a clean desk = too much time on your hands.
Gretchen wrote: "My boss thinks a clean desk = too much time on your hands."To some extent, I agree with your boss. I don't maintain a scrupulously clean desk because I don't want to waste time tidying. But at some point I do realize that the mess becomes and impediment to working efficiently. Then it's time to get out the shovel...
i'm writing today - and the rest of the week - so i expect to clean up a lot of the mess in my bedroom/office/living room. when i know something i need is in a specific pile i sort out the entire pile. i have already done one . it feels good.
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