What does your office/work area look like?

Shdwmage

I'm just curious how others have their work areas setup. I've had some unique ones over the years.

My office at my last job was awesome. I had an air-conditioner in my office because I had to share it with the servers. I had 1 long bench the entire side of the room that my assistant and I sat at. On the other side was a work bench and the server racks.

+--------------------------------------+
+    Comp 1           Comp 2     AC    +
+--------------------------------------+
| |                                    |
| | <- Shelving unit                   |
| |                                    |
+                      +------+--------+
+----------------+     |      |        +
+    Workbench   |     | Server Racks  +
+--------------------------------------+

And that was a ton more work than I thought it would be! lol.

My current setup is nice too though. I have a double cubicle setup with a storage area on one side and my desk on the other.
The desk is a J shape with one small desk, a corner desk, then another corner desk, a filing cabinet, and then a long desk. On the smaller side I have my laptop and 2 additional 24 inch monitors. On the other side of the J I have my Windows 8.1 box that is running MDT. Then I have a 2 station work bench setup so I can hook up any computers that need to be fixed.

The only thing I miss about my old office at my old job is the AC unit though. I have comparable, if not more space in my new setup.

Note: I was bored and needed a break from reading Darril Gibson's Windows 7 book. I'm re-reading that first few chapters even though I have a strong grasp on the materials.

22306

bunch of cubicles here

Cyberscum

My space needs a little TLC

N2IT

Cube two monitors docking station book shelf for my books and manuals. Best part is my 1000 dollar chair, no lie I some how inherited this super duper ergonomical chair. At first I was a little weirded out but now I have converted to Darth Vader. It's impressive.

22306

show us a picture?? dang that much for a chair?

joelsfood

I work from home, it loooks however I want it.

Currently two tables in an L, 30 and 20" monitors. KVM on the 30 hooked to two PCs, bookshelf on wall behind left edge of L

VinnyCisco

Work from home as well. Big desk with 3 LCD's, a tower, and a couple of laptops. (MacBook and Dell laptop)

alan2308

Management has offices, the technical folks have a large open room with those interconnecting desk segments all the way around. It's a collaborative environment, so it's better that you can just turn around and see everyone else.

nonstopcrudivore

I work from home so i have a medium size table, a comfy chair, 1 desktop and a laptop.

jibbajabba

Working from home. Currently moving rooms around so built myself a new desk first .. Still needs some work though - but it'll do for now

Bokeh

Mine looks like this (see slide show)

https://www.code42.com/about/

22306

for you guys who work from home what do you do and how did you get to work from home. i have been trying to find a job where i can work from home!

joelsfood

Senior Systems administrator for a large corporation. I started wfh when my daughter was born and just never really went back (I would just wfh a day or two a week before that).

Now it's permanent, as closest office (where I used to have my own office) moved to a smaller space and didn't even assign me an office in new building

VinnyCisco

22306 wrote: »

for you guys who work from home what do you do and how did you get to work from home. i have been trying to find a job where i can work from home!

Remote Support. Some on-site work when needed. Currently changing jobs to a similar position so I will still be working from home.

As far as how I found the current remote position...

I was already working support and noticed that most or around 90% of what I was doing can be done remotely. Spoke with the boss and convinced him that we would both save money and other resources if I worked at home.

I suggest you guys read a book. It is a good read and can be found for free in PDF form. It is titled - Undress For Success - The Naked Truth About Making Money At Home. The book takes you through the culture and how you can approach your boss about making the change. Also goes over how to find jobs working at home. As a side note, the author ranks Technical Jobs at Home in the Best Job Categories up at #3.

Even if you work at home already, I still suggest reading it.

22306

@vinnycisco thanks i will deff start reading that book soon!

Polynomial

Mine's on Flickr lol.

https://www.flickr.com/photos/salesforce/13588312783/

Shdwmage

Clean your desk Poly, jeez.

lsud00d

As a contractor/consultant, my space ranges from my desk at home, to a datacenter, to a cube farm, to an office with a view. Basically...whatever the customer gives me

Nersesian

Oh this is a fun game.





IT Director - Washington, DC - Unnamed Lobby Firm

Hardware -
Dell E6530, 16gb RAM, 250gb SSD dual 27" AOC monitors
13" MacBook Pro, 8gb RAM, 1tb SSD

Software -
Windows 7 64bit, Mac OSX Mountain Lion

daviddws

I currently work at a military base, and my desk is a mid 20th century small desk. Probably the worst environment I have ever worked in, but I used to work in Silicon Valley so there is a huge difference.

DevilWAH

Room with 5 tec engineers in it. each have a curved desk and pretty much standard. Mine is the desk with lots of paper work and bits on it Some people call it a mess, but actually and honestly it is organised. I scribble a lot on paper so most of the paper work is annotated printout and projects that are in current design phase.

And this is what I spend a lot of my time working in http://www.hdrinc.com/sites/all/files/content/projects/images/4784-the-pirbright-institute-7668.jpg. £160millon pounds of building and they wont give me an office in it

Nightflier101BL

Nothing super fancy, but I love my chair.

Shdwmage

I can't take a picture of my new cubicle, photos aren't allowed inside of my building.

--chris--

Nightflier101BL wrote: »

Nothing super fancy, but I love my chair.

I think you stole my old chair!

It looks identical to one I pirated from a closed/abandoned section of the hospital I worked in. I bequeathed it to the person who took me out to lunch on my last day

@22306, I work from home quite a bit / whenever possible. For me, it was dumb luck. I interviewed for a "road tech" position at a MSP. After the tech interview I was given a verbal offer. Before I accepted I wanted to discuss benefits and compensation. We talked about pay, insurance, car/laptop/iPad/phone and a few other things. The last thing he said was "oh and if you have work you can do from home, you can work from home too".

At the time, the way he said it I figured it would be a rare occurrence. But this past month I had more time at home than I did at client sites or in the office. At our last team meeting he emphasized again, "you don't have to come into the office if you dont have to be here" lol.

So to the OP, I currently work standing up most of the day at my kitchens counter top. If I sit to long my hip/right leg starts to hurt.

brownwrap

Well yesterday we had a surprise safety inspection. I was the only one at the entire facility who was written up for safety/fire hazzard conditions.

Iristheangel

Home office FTW. It's a bit messy at the moment

You can't see it here but I also have a whiteboard and my degrees hanging on the wall not show in this pic

ninjaturtle

Doesn't that AC unit hurt you cost wise? I used to run a 12,000 BTU unit like that, and boy did it drain the electricity. I've upgraded to a Mitsubishi split-system AC unit. It's a 21 SEER unit.

Iristheangel

I don't run it 24/7. I think during the worse months of summer, my electric bill was about $120/month. I am not a fan of my apartment so I'm looking forward to a future with centralized AC.

timrvt

in the corner

--chris--

timrvt wrote: »

in the corner

Nice standing location! I am jealous!

Shdwmage

brownwrap wrote: »

Well yesterday we had a surprise safety inspection. I was the only one at the entire facility who was written up for safety/fire hazzard conditions.

I know the feeling. My cubicle is always a disaster. I get it cleaned up and then people drop more crap off in it.