Working Outside
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I'm wondering if anyone here, and I would be surprised by even a rare few.... but I was wondering if anyone works outside somehow, or in mostly sunlight.
I have a... lets say condition (lol), in that I really need to be be in the sun or in bright light most of the day. Working indoors in dimly lit rooms all day really aggravated things, and I honestly don't know if there's any real way to overcome this problem without going out and literally designing some new type of workstation for the outdoors.
So how about it guys, what do you does?
I have a... lets say condition (lol), in that I really need to be be in the sun or in bright light most of the day. Working indoors in dimly lit rooms all day really aggravated things, and I honestly don't know if there's any real way to overcome this problem without going out and literally designing some new type of workstation for the outdoors.
So how about it guys, what do you does?
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I'd have a computer outside if I had an awesome enough deck with covering and a badass laptop.. I have none of those things.
If I wanna get up and enjoy outside stuff, I'll get up and go outside.
/jealous.
I hate London.
seconded omg that was too funny.
I actually wish I saw more sunlight but alas my vampire ways would not have it. not twilight vampire though...I'm not that good looking and I don't roll around in glitter and have eyeliner.
just very large black circles around both of my eyes.
If I am working outside it's manual labor shit, cuz if I am outside I am either playing, shopping or driving.
We have big windows here so its not bad
I worked outside once on my laptop
hated it
sunglare was colossal
It's nice just not very practical.
Best conditions for shooting textures, dry overcast day, gold mine!
At work I sit in front of a big window that catches a lot of sun in the summer time. It's annoying, but its sometimes nice to know its there, if I choose to open the blinds, but I don't. Mostly it just says hi by blinding me though pin hole gaps... Yea I see you Mr Sun, now kindly piss off and find someone else to annoy.
It's nice going for a run, a bike or hike and not having to worry about heat stroke, super fast dehydration or skin cancer.
(yea you can get burned on overcast days, but its cold so you cover up =P).
I used to work outside, it sucks being wet all the time, even in rain gear you get wet.
I work from home sometimes though where I have a great ocean view. It makes me happy.
You're an inverse vampire?
Our office has massive windows which tend to let a lot of light in from one side during the day - it's alright most of the time, but late evening when the sun is setting means it reflects off the desks and monitors like crazy and we have to pull the blinds down.
I don't particularly care about natural light either way as long as it's not glaring off my screen
SOE has some of the best cave lighting I have seen. It is so dark in there that when I went in for my interview I almost tripped over a box in the middle of a hallway because I couldnt see it. But after a month I got so use to the dark that I would hiss every time I would go out for lunch in the bright San Diego sun.
Haha, I used to work in an office with a plant, and I'd joke it was the only thing alive in there.
Having plants around is actually a little comforting
Yea, in our line of work the Sun is evil with its glare off our monitors; impossible to do work.
I imagine the only real way to reconcile computers and outdoors, is to try to get your outdoors time while you're not on the computer.
I'm personally on a mission though, I'm going to see f I can't design a workstation that is perfectly acceptable for the outdoors. I expect utter failure. haha.
ahh boy, what a world we live in. Grow up to live in a cubicle... indeed.
Seriously though... I can not survive outside without sunglasses even if its an overcast day, which i think either makes me look moderately cool
I will echo this sentiment of anticlimactic-ism of an existence in hastily built dead caverns after spending your whole childhood and teenage years out and about preparing for the "real world". Why do they get you used to napping in the afternoon in kindergarten and then snatch it away? This seems like a similar thing, you get used to being outside, then they take it away.
There have been, and some can still be found today in excessive plenitude, existences far worse and filled with much more misery and despair, which comforts me and makes me think that this paradigm of complaints could easily be solved inside one's mind. In other words, its a matter of perception, the problem of dissatisfaction can be solved with some mental gymnastics.
I really love being outdoors when I am already there, but I am content to just stay inside all day too... I need a real reason or place to go, I don't just wander outside aimlessly. Usually I am outside when going to work and back.
I like being enclosed in small areas... sort of. I like windows though, but covered up by curtains or blinds. Direct natural light and stuff out the window is distracting.
I would hate to mention anything about Vampires, but I feel the odds are stacked against me..... I just had an epiphany. Maybe MJ was a vampire. he fed on the blood of children, not their sexuality. It would explain the "vitaligo" which made him weak in the sun and super pale. It would also explain why you would settle out of court. Then get "not guilty" on charges that weren't "vampiricy". The Indian thriller guy knew it too. That's why he wears fangs in the video, to truly impersonate Michael Jackson, he knew the truth that we were all blind to.
I like house plants a lot too.