Mechanical Design Engineers are commonly neat and organized; especially those born under the Virgo sign.So organized that it becomes a setback.... almost OCD-like ... I'm talking about myself, of course.I find that I can't concentrate on work if distracted by clutter and have to "put things away" before realizing any productivity.Laugh if you must --- I'm used to it now --- my wife has been making fun of me for years.
It doesn't matter if my desk is clean or messy, I can never find anything. I build 30 minutes into every day and place it in the category of "looking for stuff I've lost."
I'd say my success rate for finding things after cleaning my desk, or my office for that matter, is about 50%. Half of the time cleaning means I find things I need but had temporarily "lost," and the other half of the time I put stuff someplace else I can't remember.
it's definitely funny how the mind works. I tend to find organization through my clutter. When I clean my desk, I end up not being able to find anything.
Hi, Arnoldnewb. Have you ever seen an empty desk? Even desks in empty offices or cubes tend to accumulate someone's "stuff." Mostly I see messy desks or organized desks but can't find a correlation between the state of a desk and the state of the owner's mind. It's fun to speculate, though.
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One of my favorite messy desks was the one in Jurassic Park, owned by the enginneer played by Wayne Knight (Newman from Sienfeld). The added attraction on his desk was half-eaten food.
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