hands and feet

Bitt posted a while back on workspaces (as in, the desk where you work)- asking- “what does it look like?“. In the spirit of “I’ll show you mine if you show me yours” a lot of people responded by posting to the Flickr Workspaces group. I did too, and a couple of people ooh’d and aah’d about my view…

At the moment I have two homes- whilst university is on I live in Durham. I work in a nice wee room which has unfortunately no windows I can look out of. The land-lord provides a teensy desk so to save space I’ve stacked by laptop behind my monitor with the screen in portrait format. Keeping the desk clear, with everything to hand makes for more productivity.. ish.

When term ends I head back to my folks’ home in the Peak District where my window is somewhat larger…. and the view isn’t bad either!

I think having a positive workspace is important- but as most of the discussion is about productivity; I think it’s fair to say a lot of folks are too busy wasting cash on fancy displays and new hardware to actually get any work done.