Listening to music whilst working

[Vagif Abilov]

I used to listen to rock stuff (Led Zeppelin, Deep Purple etc.) Now I'm mostly into Bach and Mozart. But I don't think either heavy or classical music affected my productivity. One thing that is difficult to me is to use headphones. I prefer speakers. Vagif Abilov MCP (Visual C++) Oslo, Norway If you're in a war, instead of throwing a hand grenade at the enemy, throw one of those small pumpkins. Maybe it'll make everyone think how stupid war is, and while they are thinking, you can throw a real grenade at them. Jack Handey, Deep Thoughts

[Christopher Duncan]

Robert Edward Caldecott wrote: You'd be surprised how many managers grumble about people sat there with headphones on! Noooo, not much in the corporate world surprises me. :-) Robert Edward Caldecott wrote: Doesn't make it a bad company though, just proves that many non-techie managers just don't get it. Actually, a large enough collection of bad managers in and of itself constitutes a bad company. Robert Edward Caldecott wrote: Faith. Believing in something you *know* isn't true. Or perhaps more accurately, Faith: Belief based on someone else's word rather than empirical evidence. Chistopher Duncan Author - The Career Programmer: Guerilla Tactics for an Imperfect World (Apress)

[Davy Mitchell]

I do that too! I am NOT weird !!! ;) Davy www.latedecember.com

[Simon Capewell]

benjymous wrote: Actually I have been known to just sit with headphones on but without music, for the same reason. I used to do that occasionally. Unfortunately the person responsible for my doing this had verbal diarrhoea and would often ignore the headphones and talk at me anyway. I eventually took to slouching behind my monitor so he couldn't see I was at my desk :mad:

[benjymous]

I'm unfortunate to sit next to the guy who talks at me all the time. I think he's just about starting to grasp now when I don't want to be spoken to, but it's taken 9 months for that to sink in. Shame there's no straightforward way to block out the smell of his cigarettes/hangover :( (Hmm, I wonder what his reaction would be if he stumbled over this post. Dunno if he'd recognise my handle, but he'd probably recognise my sig as I use the same one on emails at work) -- Help me! I'm turning into a grapefruit!

[Simon Capewell]

I has to be something instrumental. If it's got words then I get distracted and, even worse, may accidentally join in :-O If I'm doing stuff at home though, I'm not so fussy.

[Simon Capewell]

Not only did the guy talk all the time, he talked complete b*****ks. He even admitted to having caught the clap off his last one night stand. Good grief. You just don't want to hear that kind of stuff, let alone at work. He got sacked eventually for being a waster, thank god.

[Lost User]

Music does help my productivity, but there is a side effect. Some people can jsut sit there and listen but I tend to 'get involved' with the music and as its usually heavy metal this frightens people........ :-O Elaine :rose: Would you like to meet my teddy bear ?

[mstephens]

Simon Capewell wrote: Unfortunately the person responsible for my doing this had verbal diarrhoea and would often ignore the headphones and talk at me anyway. Should have just punched him in the face!:laugh:

[Simon Capewell]

Believe me, in my head he'd had a number of severe beatings ;)

[Mark Otway]

I regularly listen to music whilst coding. Working on a trading floor means it's very noisy and distracting. I have around 22Gb of music ripped onto my Laptop, but usually just stick to ambient stuff (moby, guru, goldie, leftfield, even some Jarre). Anything that's too wordy can distract me...

[Richard Stringer]

I can't listen to music while I am coding. I am a musician on the side and if I try this I find myself listening to the music with more concentration than the coding is getting. I suspect that the same part of the brain that says - Ok he's using a melodic minor scale a third above the chord to bridge down to the fourth is the same part that is deciding what kind of loop controller to use or if I really need a class to handle this or can I get by with a couple of functions. I do, however , turn on the TV and let it be a background drone cause there is nothing on it that will attract my attention. Richard Monarchies, aristocracies, and religions....there was never a country where the majority of the people were in their secret hearts loyal to any of these institutions. Mark Twain - The Mysterious Stranger

[Ray Cassick]

I definately write different code when I am listening to Tool as aposed to NIN :)

[thowra]

Agreed! ...and the music I listen to depends on the type of code I'm writing :) I listen to thrash metal and classical - especially piano and opera. "The folly of man is that he dreams of what he can never achieve rather than dream of what he can."