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I started work at a place where I didn't have an office but worked on a folding table with a broken chair in a small storage room. After the first month of this
by bugsy 16y ago
I started work at a place where I didn't have an office but worked on a folding table with a broken chair in a small storage room. After the first month of this it became intolerable. I noticed though that there was a very large office formerly used as a hardware testing lab that was no longer occupied. I came in one weekend with some friends when no one was there and moved most everything out of that room up two stories to a large storage area, and furnished it with the good old filing cabinet and hollow door desk, put posters on the wall, and swapped in a new high end computer and monitors that were supposed to be for an executive. Everyone assumed that someone else had cleared this and by the time anyone figured it out (if they did) no one said anything.
At places where I don't get a business card, I borrow one from the executives and have it cloned at a card shop with my own info. Usually I will get two or three boxes each with different titles and then pass these out at conferences with a title appropriate to whatever I am discussing with someone.
Speaking of conferences, I have never asked for permission to go to them. I just do, and then submit expenses.
- RK 16y agoAt my university, they don't give grad students business cards and the only way to order them is to use an internal requisition code. Recently the university spent a huge amount of money on a new "branding campaign". I found some branding documents buried deep in the university website that specified exactly how university business cards should appear. Now I have some very convincing cards from a cheap online stationary vendor. I give them out all of the time at conferences and other grad students here are always surprised that I have "official" university business cards.
- wyclif 16y agoSpeaking of conferences, I have never asked for permission to go to them. I just do, and then submit expenses. In certain cases it's far easier to apologise later than ask for permission first.
- tomedme 16y agoStraight out of the 4HWW book, but something I now do a lot more - and so far so good!
- TamDenholm 16y agoBig fan of Tim Ferriss too but the saying is much older. Its attributed to Grace Hopper, a Rear Admiral in the Navy and a programmer. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grace_Murray_Hopper http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grace_Murray_Hopper http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Grace_Hopper http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Grace_Hopper
- wyclif 16y agoI've got to disagree with you on Ferriss. The man is an utter fraud.