Personally work in IT, mostly fixing server and infrastructure. Big fan of listening to ambiance music while working: the kind of music and sounds that make you forget that you’re listening to it, to me, that’s the perfect kind of working music. Otherwise I will listen to game and movie soundtracks from Lotr, Star Wars, Ghilbi, Harry Potter etc… I used to be all into lofi, but need a break from it now.

Anyways, please share your favorite music to listen to while working, and let us know what you work as too! More fun to see how the profession match with music taste.

Have a nice rest of your day 🌻

  • @[email protected]English
    3•1 year ago

    When I’m not on the phone or with a client, I typically listen to jazz. Miles Davis, John Coltrane, Lee Morgan, Charlie Parker, etc. Something about it just helps me focus.

    I’ll also occasionally listen to movie and game soundtracks to mix things up. It’s very rare that I ever listen to anything with lyrics while working.

  • guyrocket
    3•1 year ago

    Depends how much I need to concentrate. Heavy concentration requires music without lyrics so that is classical with some concentration in classical guitar for me.

    If I just want some music, then heavy metal and/or rock of most flavors. Sometimes that will be www.hardradio.com .

    I have a percentage of my CDs ripped and on my PC so often I’ll just randomize everything in VLC. I do still spin my discs sometimes too in the 2 portable CDs players I have near my desk.

    In summary: It’s complicated.

    ETA: I recently discovered these videos with no lyrics heavy metal. Held my interest for a little while. https://duckduckgo.com/?q=hours+of+no+lyrics+metal+music&pn=1&iax=videos&ia=videos&iai=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2Fwatch%3Fv%3Dl4fnaKBmt9k

  • @[email protected]
    1•1 year ago

    Nothing. I have this weird thing where I can’t listen to music and do my work at the same time. Listening to music is an active experience for me, I have to focus my whole attention on it and enjoy it. Putting music on as background noise doesn’t work, it gets super irritating because I can’t focus on my work or on the music.

    The other issue is that the instant I put my headphones on at work to listen to music, someone comes to my desk to talk to me, without exception. And I hate talking to people, so I avoid wearing headphones at work these days.

  • @[email protected]English
    7•1 year ago

    If I need to do any thinking at all - complete silence
    If I do not need to do any thinking - edutainment podcasts, mostly space stuff (Universe Today, Astronomy Cast, etc.)

    • The Assman
      1•1 year ago

      If I need to do any thinking at all - complete silence

      This is me. My brain just goes to mush if I have anything playing. Not sure if you have ADHD, but…

  • wjrii
    4•1 year ago

    Mostly (though not exclusively) Alt-country/Americana, because that’s what I always listen to. As long as I’ve already heard it a few times, I don’t typically find lyrics distracting. I’m a Contracting SME for a software company, because it’s better hours and fewer crazies than being lawyer.

    Seems I’m an outlier in this gang, LOL.

  • mhredox
    8•1 year ago

    Programmer here.

    Infected Mushroom or Eskimo for when I’m in the zone and pumping out code.

    For debugging: Boards of Canada, Plaid, Lone, Ciaran Byrne

  • Blackout
    5•1 year ago

    The soothing music of Robert Evans’s nasally voice saying the word Raytheon

  • Semi-Hemi-Demigod
    6•1 year ago

    I cycle through genres every month or so. For a while it had been ska, now I’m in a funk mood. March is all Irish music, then maybe some death metal before I switch to deep classic rock cuts and live shows.