Work

Day 34

Have any of you ever met a monkey? Well, the next time you meet me you can say that you have met one. Not because of my superior climbing abilities or my ability to run jump like a monkey or to catch a Frisbee with my feet; but because I have officially become a CAD monkey. So for the past couple days I have actually looked forward to work. The daily grind of going to work the same time everyday and doing the same thing everyday was really getting to me. Mainly because work wasn’t work, or fun. It was just useless down time for me. We have this client who is located in France and they specialize in making cookies. So they hired us to redesign their interior space to a smaller area. Not only was this refreshing, but it was really fun. It just felt good and it felt right. I was excited to go to work and put to use what I was thinking that night, or to look forward to work knowing that this was my REAL design. After doing many iterations and getting feedback from others I sent my final to my new supervisor, Yuki. And then the boredom set back in. I was able to hold off from playing all of my usual games: Free Cell, Spider Solitaire, Tap Defense, Sudoku, and iShoot for the time that I was designing, but when I “finished”, back to the games it went. Yuki came to my desk and opened up a powerpoint. She flipped through the pages saying that the first slide was hers and then all of a sudden I recognized the second slide to be mine. My heart was racing to see that. I had finally designed something real for a client, and this wasn’t like school were the clients are always real or they aren’t always going to build or see what I have done. This was a real client and a real design, and it was mine. It is one of the coolest feelings in the world to see your work and to know that it has even the smallest possibility to get built and to get refined even more. The feeling is priceless…even for a monkey.