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I don't work in a cubicle but I DO work in an office...it's really boring but the plus side is that I generally am allowed to surf the Net (and mostly BnA) so that I can imagine when I next go travelling

I can't wait until the day I have saved up enough to go travelling for 18 months, that day will be amazing!!!

...and it makes you lethargic and flabby. I don't think my back even has the support muscles to sit up straight anymore.

The cube sucks.

One day I will go crazy circa The Office style and smash old computer hardware with an axe in a secluded field. Then vow to damn the man by never returning to work again.

This was my 100th post. Glad it was dedicated to misanthropic musings about work... *sigh*

I haven't had a break from the cube farm since July. This 4-day weekend has been a godsend!

I took work in a cube. I have lots of plants, which are somehow, miraculously growing. Microsoft Office Communicator helps me stay sane. I have an extremely loud (though nice!) coworker who is planning a wedding...yes, I know many of the details!

But I am glad I have my own desk with a high wall and lots of travel photos I took and a picture of my kitty and the Dalai Lama right above my computer. That is happiness!

I quit an AA flight attendant job of five years to get a computing science degree and work in a cubical. What a mistake! I thought I wasn't living up to my potential, ha! After three years of tourture and saving I bought a sailboat and escaped to the Caribbean for two years ending up in the Dominican Republic with a bar. I ran out of money and now I'm back in the cubical saving and planning my next escape. What tourture!!!

Steve L

your job is always what you make of it. Its funny, the job I have now is in a traditional cube farm looking cube... farm. Anyways, myself and the people around me make the place managable. For example, we have a moving collection of alchohol that we keep in whatever open cube we can find, and we call that cube the tiki-lounge (even got a tiki god statue), some people build tents, we came up with a thing called the "hate jar" were you can put a card in with something you hate, and then someone else draws a card at random, when they have excess hate, and then we post them up on a wall. We even have a "hated" stamp, its good fun.

I realize we might be a bit extreme, and we can get away with lots becasue we dont really care about the job, but you can always find things to do to make cube life better, if not kick ass. Also, noise-cancelling headphones, comic books, a good tea selection, and some interesting books make things better.

Steve L: I would like to hear more about your years in the caribbean, what was that like?

I preferred for some strange reason working in a cubicle than having my own room.

At least you meet some people during the day.......haha!

It's all over now, baby blue...

My cube has one wall that is floor to ceiling window like someone else mentioned earlier, and that really helps. And my pod is shared with a work partner that I get along with really well--I can't imagine working in that pod with someone I didn't get along with.

And luckily I can go out in the field quite a bit, or drive to meetings, so I estimate only half of my work time is spent in my pod.

While working on a huge phone center in Ohio, wiring cubicles, I sat in one for a minate, I just could never do it. My job is about finishing jobs and moving on to the next one. Always changing. The longest I've ever worked in one place was a school we built. It was a 1 1/2 year long job. And I was itching to get out of there, to the next job.

Amstel

Go Buckeyes!!!

I worked in a cube for the first 4 months at my current job and it was AWFUL! Since we deal with a lot of sensitive information they kept us in this secluded room that you need bagde access into... there were no windows and the lights were always off. So I worked in a cave! People would ask me about the weather on the phone sometimes and I would have no idea what was going on haha.

Now I work at home and have space and a window that flows beautiful light onto my desk area. Would never go back to how it was before now. no way

I went from my own office to not even having my own cube space! Since the company seems to be adding more people and not simultaneously expanding its physical space, every day is a competition to get prime real estate in the office. Because I'm nowhere near being an early bird, I seem to always get the dregs, sometimes even some temporary table stuck in a corner. It's pretty much crap. I don't understand the corporate mentality that makes your work-life entirely portable (I have to lug my "office" - i.e., my laptop, all work files, bberry, etc. around with me) yet emphasizes being present for "face time" in the office during dedicated business hours anyway. The way I see it, portability should = independent scheduling and choice of work location! If someone can explain this to me I'd be really grateful.

My outlook is this. The cubicle, office, desk exists only to allow me to travel. If comes to choosing to stagnate within the corporate atmosphere or moving to a more rewarding lower paying job that is what I do. I would rather clerk in hostel than stifle in a desk. So the suits went into the Salvation Army bin and I went on the road. The choice is yours. Admittedly I am my only resposibility and have no debts but one that will dissappear soon. There are options figure out what they are.

Qutting Business School to go fishing! Really I am not kidding!

wow, this chain really made me appreciate my cube job's flexibility with schedule and whatnot. Thanks people! But even with those perks it gets old for someone who's a complete spaz. Personally, i'm on the search for some sort of level of moderation between a life without any structure and what i'm doing now.... but with some type of societal purpose.

Yeah, my cube job is flexible with scheduling and what not, as long as you aren't on the boss' radar that week. I do love my job (we work with low-income at risk youth), but I love travel more.

My next door neighbor in cubeland makes it enjoyable...we have an ongoing rubberband war and share odd news of the day stories.