I work a lot at the console level, I even lauch some programs directly from there, and I know there are a lot of users like me.

Somtimes I also open two or even three terminals to monitor differente processes on the same machine or even on different PCs using ssh connection.

The use of less is really useful while doing that, the gnome-console or Konsole from KDE are really useful because of their tabbed terminals, you can switch from one to another just pressing alt+[number of terminal].