What do you do

[CalvinHobbies]

I start doing a "ADHD/ multi tasking" system. Program, surf, chat on Second Life, program program program, check lolcat, program, chat on second life. program program..get coffee, program program. It's like channel surfing complined with work. If I totaly can't concentrate on work, I go for a walk, or lay down.

///////////////// Groucho Marx Those are my principals, if you don't like them… I have others.

[AspDotNetDev]

I just don't work. I just have to get my 40 hours work done in the week, so I can take breaks. In fact, I have about 4 hours to finish today for this week. Otherwise, if I'm home, I like to take showers. That's where I get lots of thinking done, and they're very relaxing. I also feel refreshed and ready to tackle problems. If, however, I don't want to work because I'm working on something particularly boring, I like to surf the lounge and CodeProject articles while I work (back and forth between CodeProject and work). That way, I feel like my brain isn't being completely wasted on something monotonous. I become less productive than my best productivity, but more productive than not working at all.

Visual Studio is an excellent GUIIDE.

[Marc Clifton]

Mustafa Ismail Mustafa wrote:

when you are so not in the mood to work?

I take the motivation test. I look all the things I have to do and ask myself how motivated I am to do that task, then pick the task that I'm motivated to do. Failing any motivating task (happens often enough) I ask myself, why am I not motivated to do that task. After answering that for the various tasks, I ask myself, what would be required for the task to be motivating? Usually there's a pretty good answer to that, ranging from "well, it's a no-brainer and the customer will be impressed" to "it'll get me one step closer to billing the client" to "if I did it using this approach, it might actually be fun", and so forth. So then I repeat the first question given my better understanding of where the real motivations lie, and then usually something pops out as "yeah, I'm motivated to do that." However, failing all the above head-games, I just go play some online poker or work on an article or eat some chocolate. Marc

Will work for food. Interacx

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[ormonds]

Ah, I always have a list around of things which I must do but can be done when brain dead.

[Mark_Wallace]

I open something that draws diagrams, and make pretty pictures of what has to be done, in the hope of finding inspiration.

I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!

[IncredibleMouse]

Well flippin said! I handle the situation identically. ;P

[tgrt]

Those are the times I spend doing busy work. I might apply Windows updates, update other software, tweak my backup settings, cleanup old files, organize files, et al. Basically, all work tasks that you don't normally have time to do and that don't require you to be fully engaged.

[etkid84]

you're lucky, i need a project to work on

David

[Battlehammer]

I came in today to find only four other people in the office. There is usually 15 people in here. I thought I missed a memo giving us the day off or something. Anyway, it's so quiet in here I can hear my eyelinds blinking. No way I can get anything done like this.

[cgh1977]

You sound like me. X| I'll offer a suggestion, but in practice I'm a pretty staunch hypocrite when it comes to following the 'rules' I know would work if I would only apply them. I often get overwhelmed by the magnitude of the work that needs to be done. I find myself thinking, "I want the problem solved now. It's too big to solve in one sitting, so feh." I vapor lock, just like writer's block. "They" say the approach there is to bite off small pieces and ignore the size of the big pro(blem|ject). Once some progress is made, no matter how little, it can inspire one to keep slogging through. I think that's what Brady is saying : if you can do something, anything, it can get you moving in the right direction.

[Jim SS]

Amen to that. Now management is taking away the cubes and giving us open office space. Supposed to increase collaboration. :sigh: I think all it does is make it harder to think/concentrate on difficult problems.

SS => Qualified in Submarines "We sleep soundly in our beds because rough men stand ready in the night to visit violence on those who would do us harm". Winston Churchill "Real programmers can write FORTRAN in any language". Unknown

[Mustafa Ismail Mustafa]

Well, the city has been essentially in existence since 8500 BC, of course its going to look like a rat's maze.

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[Alan Burkhart]

Taking a brisk walk often gets my mind right, or maybe working in the yard. If I'm not inclined to go outside, my trusty old Super Nintendo (usually Super Metroid or Earthworm Jim) is still an excellent diversion.

[Fabio Franco]

Happens to me once in a while. I try going out, smoking a cigarrete, remember the deadlines or surf the web a bit to see if it gets me started.