What do you do for a living and do you bring your keyboard in to work?

[Grimey]

Computer programmer.  I have my office at work so I can and do leave a keyboard or three at work to swap out.

[keyboardlover]

Working from home is gangsta. I need to find a job where I can do that.

[theferenc]

It's overrated. Way too many distractions, so you have to be really well disciplined. And I at least find the lack of ability to turn to my neighbor and discuss something I'm stuck to be a big issue.

[Chobopants]

It's overrated. Way too many distractions, so you have to be really well disciplined. And I at least find the lack of ability to turn to my neighbor and discuss something I'm stuck to be a big issue.

One of the things that I like to ask someone that I'm interviewing is if they have anyone at their previous jobs that they really look up to and learned from. Learning from and leaning on one another is what makes a healthy collaborative environment so powerful. If someone tells me that they never worked with someone that they can look up to I'm immediately suspicious and try to dig deeper.

I've done plenty of side projects and motivation and discipline are definitely the hardest things to maintain when you're working alone.

On topic -
At my office we're very trustful of each other. I'll often just leave cash sitting on my desk for days and not think twice about it. I have my Blue and Red Filcos sitting on my desk at work and have no worries of anyone touching them. If anything someone would take my boss' HHKB Pro 2.

[keyboardlover]

It's overrated. Way too many distractions, so you have to be really well disciplined. And I at least find the lack of ability to turn to my neighbor and discuss something I'm stuck to be a big issue.

I haven't worked from home much but every time I did I got more done at home than I usually did at the office.

[theferenc]

Yeah, it's fine occasionally, if you just need to get stuff done. But when it's every day...it gets hard to maintain the proper focus. And as I said, collaboration is important, at least in my field.

[alaricljs]

All of my peers are in different states around the country.  We collaborate the same way whether I'm in my cube or not.  I am more likely to wander the building at the office since there is no way to relax my eyes there without a serious walk.  I am also much more likely to have my time wasted by some other employee that wants to blow time swinging by my cube to tell me a mind numbing story.

[keyboardlover]

I am also much more likely to have my time wasted by some other employee that wants to blow time swinging by my cube to tell me a mind numbing story.

Hahaha same here.

[ashort]

I find Starbucks to be the most productive place for me to work. Too many distractions at home, too many distractions at work.  If I don't have to be on a phone call, starbucks (or chick-fil-a, or Paradise Bakery, etc...) FTW!

[theferenc]

Where's the Paradise Bakery, ashort? That sounds really good.

[digitalleftovers]

I find Starbucks to be the most productive place for me to work. Too many distractions at home, too many distractions at work.  If I don't have to be on a phone call, starbucks (or chick-fil-a, or Paradise Bakery, etc...) FTW!

I, too, like to move to the coffee shop down the street when I really need to focus on something.  The background noise is nice.  I have the privilege of being plugged into a group of remote workers, so we are constantly pinging each other for help with things, but that can become distracting in it own way.  I feel like I get more done at home, but I have to pace myself differently.  Its not an 8 hour sprint like it is at the office.  I take more breaks, but find myself trading normal work hours to get other things done and then doing the rest of my work in the evening.  That seems to be pretty common among other remote works that I know.

[ashort]

Where's the Paradise Bakery, ashort? That sounds really good.

http://www.paradisebakery.com/search_zip.php?state=Indiana
We had one in Greenwood but it closed.  Now there is one downtown Indy and there are some on the northside.  McAllister's is a great place to have a LONG lone lunch and get some work done too.

[theferenc]

Yeah, McAllister's is a favorite lunch place of mine. And I'll have to check out that bakery. Thanks!

[Oqsy]

Damn, I just spent two consecutive weekends in Greenwood. Small world.

[Hydroid]

I'm inbetween school and work at the moment. (Interview later this week for a Trainee IT support consultant job). But I was home schooled for a long time and I find that I am able to work fine by myself. My main problem is in the past when I've been working on something like a website or a project I'm really stuck into I tend to over work. So instead of just doing something like a regular 8-10 hour day I'll keep at it and finish a 5 day project in 3 days because I've given up sleep to do so. If I was working in a normal office environment I'd find it easier to drop work at the end of the day and even if I'm thinking of solutions to problems, the temptation to try it out isn't as great because I'm away from the work completely.

[mike]

People there just think that I'm weird building my own keyboards.

Ha! I got people at work thinking I'm weird without building my own keyboard

Systems admin/infrastructure architect/security flunky. And yes I've dragged a keyboard into work - some weird thing with Cherry blacks that I've forgotten the name of, and a Unicomp customiser in case I feel like a change.

[agor]

Currently in training as a consultant for integrated systems.

I bring my Noppoo Choc Mini with MX Brown to work, as writing on Rubberdomes hurts my hands after ~4 hours.

[kaiserreich]

Do you guys bring tricked out custom keycaps boards to work or just the plain vanilla ones?

[ashort]

Damn, I just spent two consecutive weekends in Greenwood. Small world.

Ok, why would you come to my little patch of the world in Greenwood?  =-D

Next time pipe up and I'll buy lunch or something!

[002]

I work in QA [Software]. This is the standard issue keyboard, so 'yes', I absolutely use my own keyboard at work.

[Chobopants]

Do you guys bring tricked out custom keycaps boards to work or just the plain vanilla ones?

My linear R has white pbt keys and my blue has the click clack blue skull for escape. My boards at work have a little character.

[Bry]

3 days/week I work at a pharmacy doing a lot of order processing and data entry. I bring my U9BLS to that job each day because the alternative is a very old rubber dome dell board that sits at my workstation, and is borderline unusable (for picky keyboard snobs like ourselves). At my other job, I work at a CPA firm but they keyboard here is actually one of the best rubber domes I've ever typed on so I just use it instead of having to lug mine back and forth.

[Chobopants]

My work boards.

Edit: ew uploading through tapatalk destroys the image. Will fix when I have a computer that works. (hard drive dying in my work comp, having a new one built)

[phillip]

technical publications librarian

i have a fullsize filco w/browns here at work

[jayfinger]

Software Engineer.  Absolutely I use the good keyboards at work.  For the past three years a Das 3 (blue switches), but just bought a Realforce 87U that I'm taking in to work today.

At home I don't use the desktop very much.  Usually instead typing on an old HP 8710w laptop while laying in a recliner chair.  I may bring home the Das for the home desktop, but the wife uses that computer more than me so the choice of keyboard is up to her.  I'm curious to see what she thinks of the Das.

[daerid]

Ya know, I'll probably still bring one of my boards in for recording at the studio.. either gonna be the das keyboard or the linear R (probably the linear r, since it's quieter). Gotta have the 10 key for Pro Tools

[Lpb45]

Air Freight Logistics and I keep my Full size filco w/ blues at work with one of the sets of R3 double shots on it, not sure if the person next to me is so fond of it but whatever.

[mmmty]

Lowly helpdesk guy with access to lots of keyboards and hardware. I rotate all my keyboards to work daily/weekly. Today is 87U with new orange keycaps.

[ogreofdakka]

I work in a legal clinic filing Bankruptcies at the moment. One more year of law school left. I might start bringing my poker into work once I get it because the rubberdome at work drives me nuts when I type up documents.

[domin8r]

Do you guys bring tricked out custom keycaps boards to work or just the plain vanilla ones?

Bring this one to work, people are used to it now (also transformers Esc key by the wat \m/ ):

[canon.tk]

IT admin for a large chocolate manufacturer.  I leave my Filco Ninja with MX browns at work.

[The Solutor]

You don't take a Noppoo Chocolate to work?

At least most of their boards are brown :-)

[digitalleftovers]

I work in a legal clinic filing Bankruptcies at the moment. One more year of law school left. I might start bringing my poker into work once I get it because the rubberdome at work drives me nuts when I type up documents.

I'm glad to see that appreciation for quality input devices has spread beyond the tech sector.  We need more of you!

[Oqsy]

http://www.paradisebakery.com/search_zip.php?state=Indiana
We had one in Greenwood but it closed.  Now there is one downtown Indy and there are some on the northside.  McAllister's is a great place to have a LONG lone lunch and get some work done too.

I'll be back in October!

[Oqsy]

I work for McKesson EMI (formerly MIG), and support Horizon Medical Imaging (HMI)

Crazy, Horizon Cardiology is our suite. I might have to PM you for some help, our normal support channel is a real PITA, zero results.

[BucklingSpring]

Information Security Manager - Topre Realforce black 87U all 55g

[siz2rp]

Information Security Analyst, and I have a HHKB2Pro at home and the office.

[mattdurham]

Programmer for HCHB (Healthcare Agency Software), I used a Filco Brown Tenkeyless at work. I toyed with Model M or Blues but figured my office mates would kill me.

[canon.tk]

You don't take a Noppoo Chocolate to work?  Although I hear Chocolate is a laxative so I've always found that name a oxymoron.

Sugar free Chocolate is.  Don't eat a lot at once.

[redpill]

Sugar free Chocolate is.  Don't eat a lot at once.

Sugar alcohols: not sugar, not alcohol, but a toilet full of fun!

[hemflit]

I write code. I keep my best keyboard in the office because that's where I do most of my typing.

Nobody ever even notices it, so I'm not really afraid for it being stolen or anything. Only when I'll be away for a week or more, I take it home so nobody can spill drinks on it.

[sordna]

I develop software under Unix. I am using a Kinesis Advantage at home and at work... the health of my hands comes first, after all they earn the family income. Both keyboards recently upgraded to the LF model with the red cherry switches, they are amazing! I do not worry about the keyboard being stolen, some people leave much more expensive laptops in their cubicles.

[LETE]

I'm an Electrical Engineer. I work from home in sunny Florida designing FPGAs mostly for aircraft. I do keep one of my keyboards in the "office" which is either the basement or under a giant parasol by the pool.

[alaricljs]

Yes

Sent via TapaTalk on my Fascinate inside a prison cell... seriously.

[Chobopants]

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That's the board that most people at my office have that I swear was made by the devil. It's literally the board I think of when talking about crappy RDs. Don't know what you see in it!

[ambroise]

I'm a physician and do consulting (from home) on my time off.

I do bring my keyboard to the hospital when I know I'm going to be in one spot which usually means I'm on ER call.

[MasterBlaster]

Working from home is gangsta. I need to find a job where I can do that.

your words carry the wisdom of the gods  

[woody]

Computer engineer. I've worked on the CPUs under some of your desks. There's a 1997 Kinesis and a 1987 Model M in my office.

 

I'm an Electrical Engineer. I work from home in sunny Florida designing FPGAs mostly for aircraft. I do keep one of my keyboards in the "office" which is either the basement or under a giant parasol by the pool.

Hats off to you, guys.

[junkyardcat]

Hi gang,

I'm new around here. Working as a security consultant, on laptops only - except for short periods of time on the family's iMac. At the console for extended periods of time. I don't always have much choices regarding my work environment, especially on customers' sites. Currently I use 4 laptops, Lenovo T410 (corporate), Dell Latitude E6410 (customers'), Dell Latitude D630 and Eee PC 1001PX (private).

They all have different keyboards (especially, Fn is sometimes left of Ctrl !), I'm in love with none, and I'm looking for a high-quality alternative. Portability is very important.

In the past, I've used IBM Model M a lot - but then all the keyboard around became silent - except mine, and then the colleagues started to complain, and I was forced to get rid of this board. Years after, I tried the Happy Hacking Lite. Loved the size. Worked well, but then it was not the nice feel I was expecting, and I got rid of it as well.

I'm currently experimenting postural problems, linked to heavy laptop usage. I want to use an external keyboard to be able to place the laptop a bit higher on the desk, maybe on my bag or on a big book. Also, after 2 hours on a laptop's keyboard I'm starting to have numb hands/fingers, and this is very annoying if not painful.

So I'm in a market for a highly portable keyboard, swiss-french or just blank. I should be able to use a blank keyboard, as I had a swedish keyboard for the last 3 months (the corporate laptop came with this) and I didn't care much. Probably I'll end up buying a Happy Hacking Pro 2. But as I need to do something now, I'll try to get something that is available immediately for not much money, either a Cherry G84-4100, or maybe an Apple Aluminium Mini. This will help me find out what part of the problem I can actually solve with an external keyboard. Then, if this is effective and I'm bound to carrying a keyboard with me all the time, I'll go to something top-notch.

Cheers,

JYC

[alaricljs]

Poker is tiny like HHKB... next up from that is Noppoo Choc Mini, doesn't work with OSX due to their NKRO implementation. Up a size step from there you have Filco Mini, I hear Fukka's (the switch) are noisy as hell and there are others in this size range that I don't know off the top of my head.  Up from that is any 87 key (aka tenkeyless).