So I spent a couple of days ago working on reorganizing my work space where I do all of my side jobs for co-workers, clients, etc. I added another 6' workbench (boss had a spare to give away and I couldn't refuse) and figured I would take advantage of that time to get things all straightened up and clean since it had been a while. Even my wife was shocked (event though she knew how it would look days later), all of my new and used parts stock was on shelves and organized, tools and other items were all organized in drawers - it looked great.
Well, here is what it looks like just a week after my cleaning spree. This mess is due to a cabinet that I inherited from the office that was no longer needed and upgraded my Skeletek 20U that was housing my aging Cisco lab. Around the same time took in a few machines for repair and had a couple new build orders come in. Here are the end results.
My completely demolished work benches, thoroughly plastered with lal of the tools, cables, etc that I had spent hours cleaning up and organizing along with a variety of boxes and other crap that's made it's way down to my work area.
A relatively clean (for now) cabinet, at least until I slowly begin to update some of the aging hardware when I get back into studying Cisco. For now it's just my servers for home and virtual labs and future VMWare lab and the routers just stay in there because it would be silly to waste the space right?
The messed up part is, I go through this routine at least 4-5 times a year with the same messy result following a week or so later. Organization and cleanliness is simply not worth it
