Do you play at work?

[djphelan01]

For those of you who don't earn a living playing music do you have a guitar that you play at work? I have a CA cargo I leave in my truck and I usually play on my lunch break. I think that is when I get the most out of my practice time, since I have no distractions such as the computer.

[asatfan]

Well, my office is in my home, so.....yes, I'm lucky to be able to do it!

[stantheman]

Originally Posted by asatfan

Well, my office is in my home, so.....yes, I'm lucky to be able to do it!

Ditto!!!
I still can't believe I spent the vast portion of my adult life earning great money for other people - instead of myself.
The lesson has been learned.

[refin]

Well,I teach.........so,yeh!

[xjazzy]

Since I have a gig tonight, I had to bring my guitars with me to work today. I didn't want to leave the most expensive of them in the car (Godin multiac) and brought it to the store, so I played a little on my lunch break.

I have a lot of spare time during my day but I can't leave the store (I work on an optical shop). I wish I could have my guitar around and play when I have no one in the store...

[sonicland]

I do! I keep my spare acoustic in my office. I get my kids on the school bus and show up at my office at least 40 minutes before I have to. I try to run through 4 songs a day. I have a reportoire of about 170 songs and it's the only way I can keep up on remembering many of them. At least 2 days out of 5 it's the only practice I get.

[Jahmbie]

While I don't play for a living, I do play a lot of music and archive traditional Appalachian music. I keep an A&L Ami in my office for figuring out tunes, transcribing, etc...

[BigDaddyLH]

I remember going past a parking lot once, and in the tiny attendant's shack, the attendant was playing a double bass!

[castpolymer]

The Secret Cameramen snapped this picture in my 7,000 S.F. warehouse just before I ruptured both my eardrums.

[RomanS]

I do - I'm actually encouraged to play, even though I'm not a professional musician...
And my boss just gave me some money from our organisation's budget to get a new acoustic (nothing fancy - I got an entry level Samick dreadnought, which is quite OK for the money...), since our old one is literally falling apart.

I work with mentally handicapped people (mostly elderly) at a group home, and almost every other day or so we spend an hour singing old popular songs ("Schlager" - Udo Jürgens, Freddy Quinn, "Mein kleiner grüner Kaktus", and the likes - the German forum members will know what I'm talking about); most of my colleagues don't play a musical instrument, so every time I'm on duty my clients pester me all the time to take out the guitar...
I also keep an old cheapo acoustic guitar of mine there tuned in Open G, so someone from the group can strum along without it sounding too much out of tune.

[nosuch]

being a self employed writer and composer, yes, I do!

[schoolie]

I take my guitar and amp into our engineering lab, when nobody is looking. The fan noise from 800 computers masked my guitar noise pretty well and everyone thinks I'm in a meeting

[tboy]

I do 80% of my work at home on computers, so yeah. A 15-20 minute jam break is common.

[jjkrause84]

I'm a student and study at home so, yeah...lots of play time

[Capel]

I sell guitars for a living, so consequently don't have any time at work to play them.... (no, my name's not Henry)... it's surprising how many work experience kids we get who think out days are filled with sitting around playing - boy do they get a shock when the closest they get to playing is tuning & dusting the guitars

[mellecaster]

Yep...just about every day...but you'd never know by hearing me.....

[flatout9]

I try to sneak for lunch. I have another co-worker who plays and if she has a stringed something I will occasionally stop off to play.

[P Thought]

I often go in before dawn, set up my mike and amp, plug in my old Tak, and serenade a stunning sunrise out my classroom window. When that settles down, I put the chairs down, clean the tables, and make ready for the day. By that time there are students in the room, playing the several guitars I keep hanging up for them. It's a very important part of my day.

[blueyonder]

I wish. Lunch break is really the only time I have to get in a quick workout, and half the time I don't even get to do that. Most days I'm sitting at my desk trying to eat while I'm working on something at the same time.

[tiktok]

i always have a guitar at work and play in the stairwell at lunchtime.

[mistermullens]

I do when I can stand to stay there. Sometimes my boss drives me to the point where I have to leave. Playing at work is a nice escape. I'll take my '72 Tele Custom RI, or Esquire, or Squier Tele Custom II, my iPod, and my Vox AC30 Amplug. I can usually get about 45 mins in.

[BritishBluesBoy]

Yes. I'm very lucky - I work from home. So I not only have the world's fastest commute I also get to play my guitars whenever I have a little time to spare...

[XKnight]

I work from home a couple days a week and always take a break to play. I use to have a guitar at my office too, but found I rarely had a chance to play it. I do need to get another office guitar though just in case. Maybe a Squier Thinline.

[Dan German]

Yes, in the summer. I work as an Historic Interpreter at a National Historic
Site. As long as I only play period-appropriate tunes, it's not only allowed but encouraged. It was hard at first to get used to the idea that being caught by the boss sitting in the shade by the blacksmith's shop with my mandolin earned me a thumbs-up.

[jazztele]

yup. as department chair, i have "office hours" in case students need to talk to me...most of the time i'm in there pickin.'

[JPark]

Not me, I actually WORK at work (just kidding guys). I spend most of my time listening to people complain about how they did something stupid to get themselves in a car accident, and then claim "it's not my fault!".

Although I do dream of playing my Tele when at work... so does that count?

[tpaul]

Nope, married.

[Mike Bruce]

Years ago I pushed a broom for a school board and refused a transfer (union job) because the new job site didn't have as good a piano as the job I had. I played a lot at break time. Management didn't like that for some reason. Sometimes I also had a guitar stashed somewhere too.

Since I teach music for a living now, I always play at work, though not always what I want to play.

Mike Bruce

[telepath]

Topical question for me - as I'm planning to start doing that very thing.

I'm gonna get a cheap but hopefully cheerful parlour guitar, or maybe an ebay sourced cheap 'travel' guitar (and a Vox Amplug) and keep it in the boot/trunk.
And then go sit in my car whenever I get the opportunity.
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Good stress buster I'm going to wager.

[Joisey]

I paly at work. I have a Vox DA-5 in my office and dime it.