IT DOESN’T look like an office at all, does it? †But I am quite excited about the prospect of moving into my future office, which is the upper portion of that seemingly junk metal structure in the photo. †The photo was taken a week ago. †Though the upper (maroon) portion is largely untouched as of today, the lower portion is now fully fitted out as a front-office for our firm’s new chassis leasing yard in Harbor Center in Manila.
As mentioned above, the upper portion, which is a standard 40′x8′x8′ general-purpose container/dry van, will be where I and my group of fellow troglodytes will set up our kingdom. †Our domain will just be just the left half of it actually. †I’ll probably get the choice corner for my own small office.
I like very much the idea of working on a makeshift container van office. †It’s a refreshing change from the typical corporate offices that I’ve been used to. †Being so near where the action is, it gives a sense of being very much in touch with our firm’s business operations.
Truth is, I have long outgrown the psychological high that corporate go-getters get when they are given a nice, big corner office. †Since we’ve moved out of our corporate offices in South Harbor I’ve been working like a gipsy, with no fixed office, and I am immensely enjoying it. †I just discovered that not having your own permanent office is very liberating. †It also proved to me what I suspected all along — that offices are nothing but “clutter gatherers.” †Without an office that I call my own for about half a year now, I have zero clutter! †(Actually, the mountain of clutter from my previous office still lays untouched somewhere in my house.) †For all intents and purposes my office is my laptop and my laptop bag. †Most of the stuff I need to properly function in my job are all there.
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There’s a rather sad development related to this “new” office. One of the workers in our ongoing construction died from a freak accident on the site yesterday afternoon. I was actually on site when it happened. The details of the accident are still quite sketchy but it is likely he got electrocuted.
My sympathies go to the family of the poor fellow.
All the more I should cherish working in that new office when it’s completed, knowing too well that a precious life was lost in building it.