The daily writing prompt asks “What do you listen to while you work?” on this fine Monday morning.
In full discloser, I don’t really work anymore, or more correctly for anyone else. I work on my hobbies and interests, but I don’t look at that as work.
I do listen to a lot of music, some podcasts, and the TV occasionally in the background. On breaks I’ll step outside often and listen to nature.
Being my office is below our bedroom I listen for my better half to stir in the mornings so I can run upstairs to say good morning.
I listen to the roar of the engine while cutting grass and doing the trimming.
When I did work the sounds of the jobs were very important. An aluminum plate getting crunched and shredded or piece of film jammed in the processor. The sound of a web break on the press.
The sounds of scanners and huge reproduction equipment being moved and adjusted.
The constant roar of a datacenter computers and the cooling systems surrounding them. The endless pings of new emails, alarms, texts or calls for this or that emergency.
Of course as I matured, I realized listening to the wise people around me was far more important than talking.
But I think the thing I liked listening to the most at work was the sound of fun and laughter. I had the pleasure of being surrounded a lot by people who worked very hard but also liked having a good time doing it.
Work I did was very deadline and pressure orientated. So, a lot of us used humor to balance things out. And we all know the workplace is full of humor.
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