What is your ideal work environment? Do you like it to be quiet or loud? Do you want a cubicle or just a corner of a table to work on? Do you want a high stress deadline oriented job or one that is much more relaxed?

Personally I enjoy the quiet. I don't like people looking over my shoulders when I work. I feel like I'm in middle school when that happens.

The dead of night, no sound save some good music, total darkness. I work best when I am tired, but not the kind of tired I get after I took those horrible drugs, more like the work streaks I did circa 2009 where I could force myself awake for a week working nonstop on writing and models. After a certain point of this kind of uptime I stopped being "tired", and most of my non-essential thought processes kind of shut down due to the exhaustion. This allowed me to focus much better than normal. I can't do that anymore though. I can't even pull 10 hours uptime anymore.

I am incapable of functioning period if there's other people in earshot or any kind of background noise. Sunlight is distracting as well. I have enough stress to deal with without distractions taking hold. Of course, I haven't been able to work in many years, so I've kind of given up on everything I used to do.

Middle school was tough to sleep in but exhaustion always helps.

10 minutes before whatever I am working on is due.

Preferable Traits

Carpet
Soundproof
LED lights
Work bench


Acceptable Traits

Wood floor
Fluorescent lighting
Whiteboard
Alone


Unacceptable Traits

Tile floor
Incandescent lighting
No whiteboard
Other people


Not much space required, the size of my room would be more than sufficient (pretty small). Tight schedules are too stressful, a more reasonable schedule must be adopted or performance will suffer. Environment must be stress free and easy-going. I should have plenty of autonomy as well.

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It's a lot to ask for, but that's the ideal set up. Anything less and I wouldn't perform optimally.

...you can't do work in rooms with tile floors?

Not really, no. It's all smooth and stuff, gives me the shivers.

Where I work there are a lot of people, but I never see any of them (cubicles) .. the only problem is when everyone is on a call at once and the noise of lots of people talking at once hurts. No noise plz. So people are fine, as long as I don't have to interact with them ... Which makes cubicles awesome (though the lack of things to look at... but I have the internet.. a very limited internet, but still.)
Recently I learned that I hate the fluorescent lights. I usually sit next to the window so the sunlight makes that problem go away. Though, really, I'd prefer either really dim lighting or no lights.
I prefer relaxed environment ... Stress isn't fun. Deadlines probably would make me more productive, but with what I do that doesn't even make sense since I just sit around and wait for someone to decide they want to call someone else.

That's how I was in school...

zero supervision.

Guess you'll never join the free masons

Ideally my work environment would consist of approximately 0 minutes per day.

1. Rusty nails sticking out of the wall.
2. Mutilated body parts of my enemies impaled on said nails.

(not really)

Depends on the work. In fact, I think the environment itself is almost a non-factor to me, overall. I get used to most kinds of environments I'm put into fairly easily, as long as whatever I'm doing in said environment isn't itself problematic. "isn't itself problematic" is a rather rare occurance.