by Contributor on March 11, 2010
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The nature of any large society is that different people complete different jobs. Inevitably, of course, the different jobs people have will mean they’ll have different lifestyles, due to differences in income, workload and stress rates. A doctor wouldn’t be able to tell the difference between a Houston contract warehouse and a Houston 3PL, just as a store worker wouldn’t be able to inform the doctor of how to complete a double bypass operation. No doubt the intelligence level of the doctor would be greater and the physical strength of the store man would be higher. But is it our occupation that causes us to have the life we do, or are we naturally pre-disposed to have a certain type of job?
This question has an unspoken premise which may be incorrect. It assumes that we are all in jobs which we like, which can be safely concluded to not be the case. Many people are currently working in jobs they did not want to do when they were children, thinking of how they would be living their lives. Many have also received education in an arena different to the place they are working in, and most of us have dreams of some day quitting our jobs and doing what we deep down want to.
Although we live in a so-called advanced society, these problems have never been dealt with to any significant extent, we simply see them as the way the world is. Everyday we’re given a new piece of technology that costs more money, that we’ll need to work harder and longer to pay for, and that will inevitably crash and cause more stress like all the other products we own. Isn’t it about time someone set out to create a product that made us have to work less, or made our work easier?
You might think that things like machinery and vehicles have made the work of people like loggers or those doing physical jobs much easier, and they have to some extent. But the people who use these items don’t see any benefit, they still have to work for the same length of time. The benefit is only seen by the bosses, who gain the profits of the increasing amount of work that can be completed. If a product were invented that made something easier, can you see a boss allowing staff to work less due to the new invention?
The reason no thing that actually reduces workload is invented is because such a device would hurt the system we currently have created, or at least those on the top of the system. If we had more time to ourselves and didn’t have to work so much, we might start to begin noticing areas of life that are freely available to all. This would be very bad for the economy!
It’s time to take a look around and realize the things in our lives that are and are not important. How much cash we can make should be at the very bottom of the line, with human emotions at the front.
by Contributor on March 10, 2010
Maybe the saying that says something like, the doing of a chore almost always takes as long as the time allocated for it, may also apply to storage: we tend to keep things as long as we have some place to stow them. Look at the clutter in your garage and you can see the truth of this. Even the wall storage systems that are supposed to have only ordinary items and tools may hide articles of uncertain use but are kept there for a long time now. Same with the small bathroom storage that makes the room appear like a garage.
The most obvious solutions for that are of course throwing away the superfluous items and re-storing the kept ones. Throw away those you do not need, and keep only the ones you have some use for. Only you can determine which items may be disposed of without hurting your pocket and your sentiments, but in storing the remaining items there might also be advices worth some attention. Two of these are moving racks and carousel storage.
Everyone is very familiar with upright storage, those shelves and frames either on the wall or standing on the floor that appear like islands inside warehouses and large garages. On their containers are the numerous stored items, perhaps sorted according to some systems or not at all, loose or in boxes, barrels and other containers. Among these frameworks are aisles for item retrieval, either by a human or machine like a forklift or hand truck.
What to do if these shelves are full but no additional floor space is available is the quandary. The solution perhaps, moving racks or moving storage. Add some wheels or casters (for lighter shelves and contents) under the free-standing shelves and frames and you can push them closer when they are not used, creating more floor space for more storage racks. A good portion of aisle space inside a warehouse or garage is just wasted when not in use, so using this unused floor area by pushing racks into them successfully cracks much of the storage question.
On the other hand, though vertical carousels do not in fact reate new space, they can eliminate the room required to place stairs or elevators when the required articles are on the higher shelves. Imagine it; as a Ferris wheel on bicycle chains working like a dumbwaiter and then you have the idea. Its main benefit lies in its ability to present the wanted items always at the regular height, although carousels are normally useful only for tiny things that may be messed up together inside a bin like nuts, nails, short rods and similar others.
Moving racks and carousel storage are just two of the newfangled though hardly original ideas in storing items, and these ideas are appropriate in various magnitudes: garage-, home-size or bigger. It can be also most appropriate for keeping tools, equipment and articles in the basement where storage room is also at a premium.
Whatever is your storage headache, moving upright storage systems will be of assistance, in various functionality and efficiency, of course.
