What's on the Soundtrack to YOUR Job Search?

I'm the exact opposite. If I've got something I really need to 'crank down' on, I have to avoid any music. Anything like music that will attract my attention is going to distract me. The only time I can have music going is when I'm doing something physical and mindless.

I'm the exact opposite. If I've got something I really need to 'crank down' on, I have to avoid any music. Anything like music that will attract my attention is going to distract me. The only time I can have music going is when I'm doing something physical and mindless.

Thanks Rich - It's amazing how different people are in this regard. I love all kinds of music, but when trying to move things forward, I have to have upbeat bouncy stuff playing in the background. It's great the way that bluetooth mode works on the phone because you can have it going nice and loud, but it stops when the phone rings or when you pick it up to dial. I love technology!

Dave

I'm with Rich,

I was however the Person in the lab that always had the Radio on to some Station, usually NPR playing sorta Americana Music, i.e. Dylan, James Taylor and others in the more folk Scene. Before that in college more classic and hard rock even some 90's grunge, enter Tom Petty, Aerosmith and well the whole laundry list of that era.

But over the years i've grown to appreciate silence especially with focused on Projects such as Job searching or even doing my Job, and life. Sad to say there is no Soundtrack to the last 10 to 15 years of my life. I'm...boring.

Dx

Music, for me, sets the stage for whatever I want to get accomplished. I may kick off a busy day with some roaring Tom Petty, but I'll shift to Mozart when I'm actually in-process with that work.

I've long felt that I could be served wonderfully by some very careful playlist development, where I take music of one type or another (my favorites) and build the playlist to stoke one particular mental state. There's music that makes me more creative (for writing fiction), there's music that charges my adrenaline, just as there's music for just about every emotional state. But what a huge amount of work that would be to catalog it all and make playlists of this sort. Goes into the "Wish I had time" list . . .

Dave

I use a two step approach and I like music for the first step. That first step is not about actually Writing applications or anything like that but instead of thinking through the strategy, what do I actually want to do, why do I want to do it, how can I do it, in a job search setting what companies would offer potential paths forward, what routes are available in the Company I am working for now etc.

For this step I prefer classical music. My exact choice depends on what I want to achieve and my current level of stress etc.

In my second step that is actually for example writing an application I usually prefer silence.