Happy Salary-man

Only a few days left before I join the world of happy salary men. I am officially supposed to start Wednesday, but they needed me a bit earlier, so I went in Friday for a half-day as well. The job is good, it sounds like it is going to get even better. Sometimes I can't believe my luck. The one thing I am not sure of yet is how I am going to make the office more appropriate for a human being. Maybe I can bring my birds and plant a couple radishes on my desk. But this does not solve the problem of those horrible florescent lights, lack of sun-light, and lack of fresh air.

Ahhh, maybe I have just been out of that type of environment for too long. Maybe I will just get used to it and accept it as "how it's supposed to be". Maybe I have just been spending too much time working on the farm under the sun (or clouds) in the breeze, with my hands in the dirt, feeling the green...

Or, maybe I should be a farmer.

I had to get up extra early Thursday to go to a farm that was a bit further than normal, but all the "It's too dang early" feelings melted away when I got out in the field. That has never happened before in all my office work experience.

Don't get me wrong. I'm not complaining about the job. If it was not interesting and somethign I wanted to do, you can bet I wouldn't be doing it. I just wonder how we can make office environments more... humane.