Round peg in a square hole
So, I’ve said for a long time that the best job ever has to be that of the guys on the MythBusters show on the Discovery Channel. These two guys Adam and Jaime, with a cast of characters thrown in for good measure, dig up urban legends, myths, and historical stories and test out it’s feasibility. Basically, they look up obscure junk - most of which is emailed to them in the form of SPAM, I imagine, and they figure out a way to test it. As I watch today, they are testing to see if the cardboard cereal box has more nutritional content that the sugary cereal contained in it. Turns out that the food product has more nutritional value. Go figure. Moms everywhere cringe. What will they use as a block to the whiny “awww, mommmmm, why can’t we get the Sugar Blasted Chocko Bombs?” pre-tantrum fit? Besides that, how many parents today used the excuse that “the box has more nutrition than the cereal in it” argument?
It seems like I’ve put a lot of time into figuring out what the best job would be - because I have. Currently, even though I have my own graphic design company, I still spend a big chunk of my day in a cubicle. I like to think of it as Cubeville, the sunny vacation destination inside Corporate America. There’s no shortage of lists of similarities between the cubicle and the prison cell, circulated around the world through by corporate lackeys such as myself who think that we’re better than the shrinking office space that surrounds us. So I’ll spare you.
Fellow Cubists and I have come up with a host of ideas that would make our lives in these roofless cubbies better, although, surprisingly, not actually make us more productive. The Q-mock, for instance, is the cubicle hammock. Throw some sand on the floor and violá - your own little oasis. Or the patented Cubicle Hydration System - similar to the water bottle in a hamster cage but so much more dignified. Can be used for coffee too, for Monday mornings. I’m also working on a cubicle periscope, allowing cube dwellers to see who’s approaching to determine if their Solitaire game should be shut down. We’re still in R&D on that one.
If only we put this much collective brain power to work on our real work…
