Juggling at Work

Well, since I soon won't have work to write about, I'll write about my experiences now.

So, I seem to have influenced a lot of people around me to juggle. At every place I've worked, there's a nice handful of people who have learned to juggle. At my previous company, I think more than 50% of the people could juggle by the time I left. There were even people working on 4 and 5 balls. I keep a lot of balls on my desk and people are often coming by to practice. Several have even bought sets of balls.

One good thing about my current place of employment has been that the ceilings are about 5 or more meters high. That means I can easily run siteswaps such as 95551 while sitting at my desk and have even pulled off higher siteswaps. It's nice that I've been able to get away with juggling so much while at work. I also sometimes go to the roof of my building at lunch and juggle when the weather is good.

My best juggling while working experience was at a company I worked at 7 years ago. My job is software Quality Assurance and I once had to test lots of different variations on installations. The product at the time was on floppy disks and we had one version that had like 8 floppies. I would insert a disk and juggle for a minute or two while waiting for it to ask for the next disk. I would get a good half hour of juggling in for each iteration that I was testing. It was sad when they switched to CD installs.