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Stop pretending coworking day passes are a ripoff, the $25 I pay in Medellin buys me 8 hours of AC that my apartment does not have
Everyone in the nomad groups keeps saying just work from a cafe, but after 4 months of sweating through calls in 85 degree rooms I stopped counting the $25 daily pass as an expense and started counting it as the cost of being able to actually work, so tell me what your real setup is because I am tired of pretending a latte and a wobbly table is an office.
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amyr5717d ago
Been there with the sweat dripping down your back during a Zoom call, fan blowing full blast so nobody can hear you anyway. People who say "just hit a cafe" must live somewhere with actual weather, because a wobbly table plus one outlet plus a barista glaring at you after 90 minutes is not a setup. My friend tried the cafe thing in Chiang Mai and got kicked out three times in one week for camping too long. Paying for a real desk and cold air is just buying your sanity back, and $25 for a full workday is cheaper than losing clients because you look like you just ran a marathon. Call it an expense if you want, but it's really just the rent you pay to function.
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