Awesome people

I can never get over how the office I work in is filled with awesome people with very diverse skillsets...

We have graphic designers, programmers, sound guys (that's me, hehe, but I'm not alone!), historians, linguists, bad film experts, good film experts, AutoCAD-proficient designers, comedians, exotic culture scholars, fencers, musicians, martial artists, photographers, people with MBAs, people with other diplomas, people with quirks, people with hobbies and what have you... And I'm hardly even mentionning those that have left us in the past year. Geeks all around.

And our office tasks have nothing or nearly nothing to do with these specialisations.

What do we have in common?

We're smart, ressourceful people who display broad communication skills, analytical thinking and a desire for efficient collaboration. We may not be working in our chosen fields, but we're living with the times.

Pretty impressive for a bunch of desk-clerks, huh?

Regardless of what I think of my job or salary, I love interacting with these people. You can have any kind of conversation, from light banter to deep philosophical discussion and even highly technical detail. I'm fucking proud to be here.

When they say that variety is the spice of life, they mean it. Total homogeneity creates the most dull working environments. I've worked in places where you were limited to 2 or 3 topics of conversation, and the slightest mention of anything else was met with raised eyebrows, passive disinterest and occasional ridicule. Those were the places where I have worked the least amount of time: the shortest stint of which was initially supposed to be my dream job!

But I obviously speak for myself. The aforementionned diversity and exchange is not always what people look for in a workplace. Some may enjoy near-anonymity: punch-in, punch-out, no chitchat, no social interaction, no questions asked, thank you. And their coworkers expect the same from them. The idea being that you should be able to share the same general mindset and work ethic as your colleagues.

You want to be left alone? Don't seek a supersocial workplace. Are you a social animal looking for interesting conversations between tasks? Seek a place without cubicles and populated by some friendly, casual people.

It goes to show that -who- you work with is more important than the actual work you do.