#office workload

[corporateessentials]

How to Manage Increasing Workloads at the Office

In today’s fast-paced corporate environment, managing an increasing workload is a common challenge. The constant influx of tasks can lead to stress, burnout, and decreased productivity if not handled effectively. This article provides practical strategies to help you manage your workload efficiently, ensuring you stay productive and maintain a healthy work-life balance. Quiz: How Well Do You…

[birdnormal]

a really fun thing about me is that people around me irl are incapable of showing me sympathy or human respect

[corvid-language-library]

The worst of this week is done and today shouldn't be *too* bad but I can't get the early train home so I won't get home until 10 and then I have to get up early tomorrow because I'm working in the next city over and it's a 90-minute journey total and I'm covering irregular classes so I have to do all my prep today for those.

Then I get one whole day off before my next six-day work week.

This month is so ughhhh

[sarah-yyy]

mr r, a transactional lawyer who deals largely with corporate clients: a client just THREATENED to KILL ME me, who is on the receiving end of threats at least ten times a week from people who are actually in prison over the things they are threatening to do to me: mm hmm mr r: i am FEARFUL for my LIFE me: m'kay mr r: is no-one concerned about me?????

[orangerosebush]

I'm soooo excited to delete every single procedure documentation resource I created when I leave my bullshit office job. I will leave such a wreck in my wake that it crushes my current manager (who is responsible for nigh-yearly turnover in my role).

[ialwaysknewyouwerepunk]

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[bottom-lexa]

I started my first adult job last week. It’s 8am to 5pm and it’s been a week. It’s been one week. And like. I gotta do this shit my whole life????

[yellow-yarrow]

im so desperate for work that im considering applying to the fucking online slots company

[violetsareblue-selfships]

being on a video call w/ zayne while he's busy at the office, which ends up being mostly parallel play until he has to go see another patient or w/e

[positivelyghastly]

Screaming crying throwing up because I have so many ideas for drawings but I can’t seem to finish ANYTHING

[daisyachain]

I don’t know what the hell is going on at work and I’m wise enough not to ask right now

[sea-chord]

If love eludes me, and sleep eludes me,.... why can't a heavy workload elude me too?

[koushuwu]

i am finally home from dropping my car off at the mechanics. it’s 6:20 so straight to cooking dinner i guess and then reading my two chapters of kingdom before potentially having time for idk existing? this upcoming week and last week aare/were crammed af. tomorrow i go pick up my car again after work, go home, dinner, read, shower, pack. wednesday going to the capital after work (a four hour drive) to stay the night (at which time i have to try and make for reading there too) and attend an event there on thursday, also for work. coming home around 8pm thursday and then try and make time for reading and showering and breathing. friday is normal work though, and i can relax then after work hopefully.

[plumbus-central]

How did you develop your art style? Like how did you find your own voice in your art?

Oh what an interesting question, I never expected to asked abt my art!

Honestly i took a while to think abt this question, and I think a lot i've done about developing my own art style came from seeing things i liked in other people's art and copying it lol.

For instance when i was in the [REDACTED] fandom when i was a young teen there was a very popular artist who used gradients in their work to add depth and color and i liked it a lot, so i started doing it in my work too.

A few years ago i started following an artist and really liked their work bc they had such a strong grasp of color, shape, gesture, and line. And they used these strong, thick lines to fill out the form of their work, but i noticed that the lines often didn't touch and that it didn't matter bc you could still understand and make out the form of whatever they drew just fine. So i decided to stop worrying abt MY lines touching either lol. which is how i ended up with those sort of ghost constructions of figures and shapes i do sometimes.

I can vividly remember seeing a comic on tumblr ONCE where i saw a character have just a line for a mouth that went off their face and i just stared at that panel for a while trying to figure out why i liked it so much lol until i realized it was their expression that i liked. So i kept that in my head, and a few years later i realized that i had started using it in my art too.

Another aspect that has influenced my art is exploring other media and being challenged by my own interests. Like when i was a teen i was very into steven universe and my own ocs. which was fine but didn't challenge me too much artistically. Then in college i got into bojack horseman, and specifically my favorite character was herb kazzaz, a short, fat man with a beard. Completely out of my comfort zone to draw, but i wanted to draw him so bad! so i figured it out!

(some of u might actually be familiar w/ my boajck horseman sideblog @hambone-fakenameington , it hasnt been updated in a while cause im on that rick and morty shit right now lol). But now i have to skills to draw these things by way of my interests in the character.

My fixation with rick and morty was actually so strong at first that i was drawing like crazy, which eventually taught me to focus on and hone my skills with gesture, thumbnailing, and composition bc i wanted to draw so many ideas at once that i couldn't spend too long on each one. (and it also gave me lots of practice). Thanks to my interest in R&M ive also developed skills in drawing very skinny bodies lol, but also on pushing expressions and gestures to extremes that i never used to!

Hell even just trying to figure out how to take features and details from characters in something and translate them into YOUR style can be a big learning and growing experience. (u can see in my old art it took me a while to get rick to look right)

So i guess the overall is that seeking out and consuming media is always important bc you can take a lot of inspiration from something without even realizing it. (honestly if ur feeling stagnant in ur art watching/reading something new can be a good way to jog ur brain). And taking a good look at the art you enjoy and trying to figure out WHY u like it, and what elements are stick out to u. Then seeing if you can bring those elements into ur own art and see if it's successful to u to explore it.

as far as voice goes um.... i guess what's become important to me is that u gotta know when to cut corners lol. like a hand doesn't ALWAYS need to be perfectly formed, like it can be a squiggle and it might even look better for it. sometimes loose and sloppy looks good for what ur doing and sometimes heavily defined and carefully lined work is necessary but i gotta remember that the clean art is built on the back of the sloppy studies. and stray lines, warped perspective, and unaligned facial elements can give a lot of character to a work that might otherwise seem bland and stiff.

thank you so much for the question it was fun to take a look at my work and reflect on how i got to what i have as a style now! R&M has honestly done A TON for my art style and drawing abilities that i didn't realize till now.

Also worth mentioning bc i forget how much of my life i share w/ you guys but i also have BFA in Illustration with a focus in Animation Arts and Sequential Art.

[watchmakermori]

just dealt with an absolute wanker at work lads. I don't understand what compels people to be The Customer. like what do you gain out of being rude. everyone's just going to complain about you behind your back forevermore

[clown-femme]

As I was on my way to work the other day I saw a printed sign on the door of the tea+snack place that's like 2 blocks away that I always walk to on my lunch. I couldn't see what it said bc I was in an Uber and it passed too quickly. If I go into the office again on Wednesday and it turns out that place is closed I'm gonna start eating drywall. Just wanted to update everyone.