More than just a day in the office

As a structural engineer, one of the perks of this engineering vocation is that I won’t have to have my buttocks in a chair for dreadfully long hours at a time. Instead, like sea billows that constantly wash onto shore, I will be constantly going back and forth from my design office and the work site of a newly developing building.  In my design office, I will have my own designated L-shaped cubicle. The cubicle would be a dull grey color, made mostly of the same fabric that old grandmothers were, in which the cotton has so much static, like that of someone’s hair when they touch an electric ball (think Einstein). The boring grey color of the cubicle would be the same be reminiscent of the old grey cardigan sweaters that old grandpas where. The height of the cubicle would be five feet tall, right around my eye level. The cubicle itself would be stationary on circular pegs at the ends of each Herman Miller panel. The cubicle desk space would be made up of three parts, two rectangular work surfaces and the middle section would be stationed onto the corner of the cubicle with a concaved semi-circle towards me. The two rectangular desk panels would be on each side of this middle section. A black, metal sliding keyboard tray would be attached to this middle desk panel. The color of the desk panels would be a whitish grey color. The floor would be made carpet consisting of multi-colored dots of different shades of violet, purple, ocean blue, forest green, orange, yellow, and many other colors in the color spectrum. The floor pattern would be reminiscent of George Seurat’s painting style of Pointillism. Although the overall color of the floor would be a grayish, purple color, the multi-colored juxtapose dots of the painting of A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte would come to mind. The lighting inside the cubicle would be filled with the bright white ceiling lights that permeate onto every corner of the office space. Only the area underneath the desk panels would black. The black office chair would have an elastic, thin, spider-web resembling back. The back of the chair would be convex so that I would be forced to sit upright, instead of gradually slouching onto the chair. Then there’s the most important piece of equipment in the entire office, my computer. My thin, black 24 inch monitor would sit in the center of my cubicle. Similar to how many primitive people believed that the earth was the center of the universe, my computer would be undisputed focal point of my cubicle. Without my computer, my cubicle would be like a human being without a heart. It would simply be a lifeless body. The computer a state-of-the-art sleek Lenovo with a cordless mouse attached to the computer. As the design office is rather dull and boring, with the varying grey color schemes of the cubicle and the desk, the work site is exciting and refreshing from the office. On any given day, I may be at a single site working on a building a ten story apartment complex or a new bridge spanning across Highway 15. Therefore, it is quite hard for me to describe my work site since I can be at multiple work sites on any given day. However, this opportunity to work off site is a great privilege that other engineers do not get to enjoy. I mean, what other engineering vocation allows you to witness the entire creation process of buildings?