What Does Your Electronics Workshop Look Like?
On Wed, 14 Dec 2005 01:41:39 GMT, "Michael A. Terrell"
wrote: Irv Finkleman wrote: If I ever manage to get to the point where I can find the bench underneath the clutter I will be more than happy to send you a photo of it. I should have taken one when it was new for sentimental reasons! :-) Irv VE6BP P.S. If you think the bench is bad, you should see the shack! news:alt.binary.pictures.radio has a contest from time to time with pictures of workbenches and home shops. Its about time for someone to post another "My bench" photo and start another round over there. I used to get ultra stressed when my workbench would get to be so messy that I couldn't find anything I needed without a time consuming search, if even then. After having endured significant "heartburn" and internal self analysis I came to the following realizations: 1) I was never going to be the kind of guy who had a clean neat workplace with everything in its place all the time, I was too easily distracted by "more important things". 2) Based on my conclusion in #1 above, when my shop (or any other part of my unorganized life) became so messy that I was beginning to spend as much time "finding things" as I was "fixing things or building things" instead of LOOKING for what I couldn't then find I QUIT LOOKING and simple cleaned and organized my shop until it was like some of the photos I have seen in this thread. 99% of the time I found what I was looking for in the process but resisted temptation to stop cleaning until I was finished, otherwise I would be back in the same mode sooner rather than later. 3) I concluded that if my assumptions/actions in #1 & #2 were valid that it wasn't the messy shop that was the problem it was ME in that I had simply misinterpreted an "automated message" from mother nature that I initially understood to be "Find what you have lost, it is here someplace..." was incorrect and was reassessed to mean: "Clean and organize your work area now, or you will be continually stressed and frustrated until you do." I think it was one of those situations where I initially only read the first part of the message, because I already KNEW what the rest of the message contained from what I had read so far.....happy holidays! |
What Does Your Electronics Workshop Look Like?
Joe Brophy wrote:
On Wed, 14 Dec 2005 01:41:39 GMT, "Michael A. Terrell" wrote: Irv Finkleman wrote: If I ever manage to get to the point where I can find the bench underneath the clutter I will be more than happy to send you a photo of it. I should have taken one when it was new for sentimental reasons! :-) Irv VE6BP P.S. If you think the bench is bad, you should see the shack! news:alt.binary.pictures.radio has a contest from time to time with pictures of workbenches and home shops. Its about time for someone to post another "My bench" photo and start another round over there. I used to get ultra stressed when my workbench would get to be so messy that I couldn't find anything I needed without a time consuming search, if even then. After having endured significant "heartburn" and internal self analysis I came to the following realizations: 1) I was never going to be the kind of guy who had a clean neat workplace with everything in its place all the time, I was too easily distracted by "more important things". 2) Based on my conclusion in #1 above, when my shop (or any other part of my unorganized life) became so messy that I was beginning to spend as much time "finding things" as I was "fixing things or building things" instead of LOOKING for what I couldn't then find I QUIT LOOKING and simple cleaned and organized my shop until it was like some of the photos I have seen in this thread. 99% of the time I found what I was looking for in the process but resisted temptation to stop cleaning until I was finished, otherwise I would be back in the same mode sooner rather than later. 3) I concluded that if my assumptions/actions in #1 & #2 were valid that it wasn't the messy shop that was the problem it was ME in that I had simply misinterpreted an "automated message" from mother nature that I initially understood to be "Find what you have lost, it is here someplace..." was incorrect and was reassessed to mean: "Clean and organize your work area now, or you will be continually stressed and frustrated until you do." I think it was one of those situations where I initially only read the first part of the message, because I already KNEW what the rest of the message contained from what I had read so far.....happy holidays! I have reached the point where I don't care if any of my benches are clean. I am 100% disabled now, and I have so little time that I can stand to be in my shop that I just finish what I have to and forget about the shop till I need it again. It would take me years to ever get it back the way it used to be, and I may not have those years left, so why worry about a half dozen benches? -- Been there, Done that, I've got my DD214 to prove it. Michael A. Terrell Central Florida |
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