Look of Success, or Look of Creative

[Grinner Hester]

I’m sittin here in shorts, a t-shirt and bare feet. Thats how I edit.
In a pitch, I usually go ahead and put on my sandles.

I use to go to job interviews wearing sandles and t-shirt. Just part of the imnterviewing process for me. It’s not like I’d show up everyday for work in a golf shirt and dockers so I saw no reason to front that in an interview. If I had a person that was put off by my attire, it saved both of us time and frustration down the road by my weeeding them out from the get go. At the same time, if they dug that and my tie-dyed resume, I figured we’d probably hit it off ok for 60 hours every week.
There are times for nice dress but someone usually has to die or get married for that. Getting new bidness or pushing buttons doesn’t require anything more than comfort out of me.
so, look of success or creative?
I dunno, man. I don’t really look.

[Steven L. gotz]

Bare feet is OK for sitting down, but if you stand while editing, as many people do, I suggest shoes with arch support of some sort will allow you to work longer.

Steven
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[Charley King]

[Steven L. Gotz] “if you stand while editing, as many people do”

Ya know, I keep hearing this. Tried it myself. Problem is, I rock while editing. Ya can’t rock when you are standing. Rocking relaxes me and helps my juices flow. So I will remain seated as long as I have a chair that rocks.

Charlie

[Grinner Hester]

I’ve tried it too. I fel rushed when standing. Guess that comes from standing in lines or something but I couldn’t do 16 hour sessions on my feet.
I have everything set up as ergonomicly freidny for me as possibly but no matter what I do, I can’t seem to get that piercing pain under my right shoulder blade from happening. It’ll get me up out of the chair sometimes. Sometimes the skin is numb there but the pain continues deeper.
Anybody else get this?

[Michael Thomson]

Grinner

Im kinda similar, pain in my lower back – hurts like hell.

Think it comes from sessions when im leaning forward too much, almost hunched over my keyboard like quasimodo, scared someone will steal it from me when im making good ground!!!

Seriously it hurts though, and i’ve never found a cure, tried chairs by the dozen they didnt solve it.

[Matthew Skeris]

grinner- my holistic chiropractor gave me some advice– just use Vioxx
once in a while and if you’re lucky (like me) shooting pains & numbness
can go away.

[Mike Cohen]

For a while I was sitting on a yoga ball. Reduces the leaning forward, but obviously you have no arm support. But it reminds you to keep your back straight.

I have only sat in an Aeron chair once or twice, but that supposedly makes a difference.

There is another type of highly adjustable task chair which costs about 400 clams, trying to remember the name of it, but it is a good one.

As for dress – I wear kakhis, jeans or cargo pants and a sportshirt or polo type shirt 99% of the time. The suits come out for trade shows or shoots at conferences. We used to wear ties when clients came to the office, but now business casual is ok. Visits to a client is sport coat and tie, unless it is Friday, you can often lose the tie.

The best attire is for shoots in the operating room – those scrubs are like wearing pajamas – unless you get the tyvek jump suit – pure sweat.

I agree with the others, unless you work in a strict corporate setting where everyone wears a suit, or ad agency suit=loot, wear what you are comfy in.

Or do what I do – wear what the boss wears.

[Chaz Shukat]

I dress for comfort but I also like to look good. Consequently I find myself more dressed up than most of the editors I see. It also gives off an air of success. But certainly no suit or tie, even on a job interview or meeting a client. An editor would look ridiculous dressed like that. Most of the time the person that is interviewing me is dressed more casually than I am, so I stay in the middle of the road.

As for the pain in the arm, I have developed that too. I have it right now. It’s definitely an ergonomic situation, but the bottom line is that it’s probably some form of carpol tunnel problem. I think the only way to deal with it is to force yourself to stop every hour or so, take a break for 5 minutes and do some loosening up exercises for your wrist, arm, neck, shoulders, back, and legs. Try to sit with your back straight and feet flat on the floor. I can’t seem to sit this way, I have terrible posture and can’t get comfortable that way. But at least try the breaks and exercises. It’s scarry to think if the pain became so bad that you couldn’t do the job you love. You also need to take care of your eyes, they are fairly necessary to doing your job as well.