Choose your own path to happiness by owning your own frozen yogurt franchise and making your community a happier place If you've ever found yourself unable to face one more gray
day in a cubicle farm working toward somebody else's dream, you may have daydreamed about owning your own business.
If I have a bad night with my son and don't get much sleep, I can't just tell myself, «oh, I'll just have an easy
day in my cubicle and surf the net.»
Because being pregnant at home still sucks and, in many cases, the same way it did the first time around when I spent
my days in a cubicle.
But now most of us spend
our days in cubicles with fluorescent lighting.
No guarantee, of course, that you'll earn as much as she does, but
your days in the cubicle mines will end if you put fingers to the keys the way that Joanna did.
An idealist, she had once dreamed of representing victims of corporate abuse, but she spends
her days in a cubicle talking on the phone with victims of tainted bottled water - and she is on the bottler's side.
Not exact matches
On this
day, Aeryon's office on the outskirts of Waterloo, Ont., is a quiet place where about two dozen people toil
in cubicles separated by glass walls scrawled with engineering formulas.
To him, this was a small price to pay for escaping the monotony of pecking away at a keyboard
in a lifeless
cubicle for eight hours a
day, five
days a week.
Instead of «living life», we have to stare at screens, not experiencing something great, but wading through our software, clicking away
in cubicles, pumping ourselves with caffeine, trying to stay awake until the end of our work
day.
What is not okay to me is to stay sitting
in a
cubicle day after
day, when we have enough to be free.
We're happy to report that Asterisk L., the subject of this week's FlexJobs success story, made the great escape from working
in a
cubicle all
day to the freedom that comes with remote work.
Instead, my life consisted of months on the road making sales presentations and lonely nights
in motel rooms, only to come home to my shoulder - high, rainy -
day - gray
cubicle walls.
I daydream about this sandwich (while reading your blog) on the
days I eat sad pretzel and diet coke lunches
in my
cubicle.
Pete Rose was sitting alone before his dressing
cubicle in the Cincinnati clubhouse one
day last week, sifting through another bushel of letters and telegrams.
In his dressing cubicle at the gym, a patriotic poster proclaims the «Days to Remember,» such as the massacre of Biafrans in northern Nigeria on May 28, 196
In his dressing
cubicle at the gym, a patriotic poster proclaims the «
Days to Remember,» such as the massacre of Biafrans
in northern Nigeria on May 28, 196
in northern Nigeria on May 28, 1966.
Actually, it was also on my mind when I worked a 9 - 5 job and sat
in a
cubicle all
day.
Not the right to sit
in a
cubicle all
day, then pick up our child from
day care and call ourselves liberated.
If he sits at a desk all
day, consider creating a photo ornament that can be hung
in a
cubicle.
But
in our modern world, we spend the
day in windowless
cubicle mazes, and we spend the night surrounded by screens, LED lights, and ambient light pollution.
I have worked with hundreds of clients, solopreneurs, stay at home moms and ex-military re-entering the job market and coached them from struggling
cubicle jockey to profitable health coach
in as little as 60 - 90
days.
Take this short - lived shot of caffeine anhydrous and Vitamin B12 to get you through that God - forsaken, treacherous hour of lifting weights... since it's such an inconvenient and cumbersome part of your otherwise exciting
day sitting behind a computer for 8 hours
in a
cubicle.
I spend a lot of time
in my
cubicle and have worked hard over the past year to turn it into a space that I am semi happy being
in for 9 hours a
day.
Whether your performance is on a literal stage (I just saw my high school's musical and it brought back SUCH good memories of my own theatre
days),
in a
cubicle, or all around the world, sometimes you've just got ta put on your big girl boss pants and come to terms with your own capabilities.
Cubicle to Cocktail I mentioned this a few previous posts ago on how easy it can be to transition a look from
day to night or from work to going out,
in other words,
Cubicle to Cocktail.
Smells are relative: How would you feel if your
cubicle - mate splashed himself
in Drakkar Noir every
day?
I like to do a sheet mask at least once a week, either on a Friday evening if I have an event I'm attending the next
day, or during the week when I will be spending time with some of my co-workers versus holing up
in my
cubicle.
I cried
in work, secretly
in the bathrooms and not so secretly
in my
cubicle because every
day I would hold my breath for the first text message, the one that would tell me what type of a mood he was
in.
Sitting
in a
cubicle, taking crap from his boss, aware his girlfriend and best friend are sleeping together and doing the same thing
day in and
day out.
He leaves his
cubicle at work each
day to return to a small room attached to a ramshackle garage just a few feet from the house where his brother Gus (Paul Schneider) and sister -
in - law Karin (Emily Mortimer) reside.
By
day, the 25 year - old slacker sits behind a desk at a tiny
cubicle in a low - paying job, trying to tune out the unreasonable demands of his overbearing boss (Lorna Scott).
Students spend half their
day in this room, which is filled with hundreds of
cubicles and computers, working on assignments online.
Sitting
in my
cubicle the next
day, eating the snacks she had packed for me and writing about the 2015 Subaru Legacy, I realize the feeling is mutual.
And you, who sit
in a
cubicle all
day tapping away at a keyboard, are you fit enough for long
days in the construction game?
Too often, college kids and recent graduates (like me) get sold the same pale of career and investing advice: save up your money, make wise stock investments, dump some cash into your 401 (k), and dear God, take absolutely no risk... take joy
in sitting
in your
cubicle crunching numbers all
day!
Imagine putting runner Usain Bolt
in an office
cubicle for eight hours a
day and you can probably picture not only the frustration, but the lack of fulfillment and sadness that would occur.
With their britches donned, they dash off to class, their tractors, their grocery stores, the nearest mall or to their offices where they will spend their
day in trousers sitting
in cubicles, compulsively checking their Facebook status and avoiding eye contact with upper management.
We know many of you are still stuck
in your
cubicles this month, and most of you are lacking the means to pack up and head to the beach for the upcoming long, summer
days.
Put it
in your
cubicle, give it to your niece as a graduation present, or your dad for father's
day (or better yet mom for mother's
day), bring it to the company picnic, carry it to the door next time Jehovah's Witness come knocking, or just lean it up against your living room wall and admire.
Like I said a few
days ago, my work doesn't belong
in art galleries, it belongs
in office
cubicles.
Harold wonders «What about that skinny chick
in the
cubicle three doors down who eats donuts all
day long?
1) A lot of modern jobs consist of sitting
in front of a computer all
day, sometimes emailing or instant messaging the person
in the next
cubicle and phoning someone down the hall.
Sitting
in a car and
cubicle every
day is not a recipe for studliness.
Neither is needed much for a junior associate who spends most of his or her time
in a
cubicle for 12 - 14 hours a
day.
Having recently spent several
days with a law department whose lawyers work
in open
cubicles, I confess to some amazement.
While many people simply clock
in to work and sit
in a
cubicle, you might spend your
days on a boat
in the middle of the ocean or piloting an aircraft.
Gone are the
days of working
in a traditional office setting, where
cubicles separate colleagues and the only social interactions...
Working at your desk,
in a
cubicle, or away from others on a low - energy
day can lead you to distracting and procrastinatory activities like browsing the web or scrolling through Twitter.
When I first started my colleague
in the
cubicle next to me offered some helpful advice:» Don't worry about being busy your first few
days.
One
day you're just doing your job, and that interesting person
in the
cubicle next to yours makes a reference to a random TV show you thought nobody else had ever...
Workers are more interested
in collaborative space and the flexibility to move their computers to the areas that best support their work that
day, then fixed offices or
cubicles.