What do you do on the drive to work?

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So I drive 200 miles to work one way. For me that's 3.5 hours that I feel I should be productive with.

My solution: learning Spanish with CD's that I put in my car.

However there's only so much Spanish I can try and learn at one point before I need a break. :p

Anyone have any suggestions?

For those that drive a distance, what do you do during your drive?

Specializes in Emergency/Cath Lab.

Destroy my eardrums with music most of you would hate to hear 10 seconds of.

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Specializes in Home Health, Case Management, OR.

Well my drive to the office takes about 5 minutes as it is only a mile or so from my house BUT it takes me about 20 min each way to take my son to daycare. During that time I talk to him, drink my coffee and listen to the morning show on the radio. Some days I will call my mom and talk to her on my cars bluetooth.

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Specializes in Med/Surg Tele; LTC; Corrections.

I pray, clear my mind.....hope everyone shows up to work so we can have a good night. Listen to the radio. Think about things I wanna do when my next off day comes.

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Destroy my eardrums with music most of you would hate to hear 10 seconds of.

What kind of music do you like? Artists?

I like the screaming stuff when I am working out - it gets me pumped up.

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I used to think about driving home.

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Specializes in Emergency/Cath Lab.
What kind of music do you like? Artists?

I like the screaming stuff when I am working out - it gets me pumped up.

Well I was raised on classical that led to techno very fast and that led to Dubstep. I know most people HATE it. Favorite is people like Bassnectar, Skrillex, Rusko, Flux Pavillion. You have to have good speakers/system to get all the parts though. I literally feel my insides rattle when it's playing.

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Specializes in Med-Surg Nursing.

I have a bluetooth headset for my cellphone and I talk to my Mom on my 30 mile drive one way to work 4 days a week. It's mostly highway miles, on a pretty straight highway. Been doin it for over 10 yrs now.

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Specializes in Med/Surg, ICU, ER, Peds ER-CPEN.

My drive right now is only about 10 mins, so not much, soon it will be about an hour so I may start borrowing audio books from the library lol

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Specializes in Med nurse in med-surg., float, HH, and PDN.
Well I was raised on classical that led to techno very fast and that led to Dubstep. I know most people HATE it. Favorite is people like Bassnectar, Skrillex, Rusko, Flux Pavillion. You have to have good speakers/system to get all the parts though. I literally feel my insides rattle when it's playing.

Oh, I am old. I've never heard of any of the stuff you mentioned.

But I'm not so old I don't appreciate the rattling, ear-stripping aspect.............

it's why I have some nerve-damage deafness.......I used to find that the louder the music

the more it calmed me. I used to need alot of calming:D

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i learned a tremendous amount about interviewing people from terri gross on npr's fresh air. when you think about it, we need to get people to tell us things all the time. i recommend getting the podcasts (free) to broadcast to your car radio if she isn't on when you're driving

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