Working from the coffee shop
I’ve been having trouble sitting in this silent home office all week (has a lot to do with the new quiet caused by the end of my relationship). So I’m spending my mornings working from my favorite coffee shop.
I keep thinking I can write off the money I spend there as a business expense. I’ve switched to regular coffee instead of my favorite Double Americanos to save a little money (buck fifty for organic and a dollar for a refill vs. $2.75 for the other), but I usually stay there long enough to eat at least one meal (the tuna melt today).
Most of the time my tenure is four hours, which corresponds with how long you can use the So Cal Free Net wireless service without having to log back in. Not that logging in is a big deal — it’s just a good marker for a change of venue.
The biggest problem about working from a coffee shop? ERGONOMICS! I was there all morning, and my back is killing me, not that my home office is much better. Perhaps they’ll let me roll my office chair over tomorrow?
Claire (aka Little Miss) on 01 May 2008 at 12:31 pm #
Take a back pillow rest thingymajiggy with you tomorrow – you know, one of those things the chiropractors have? I have one. I should follow your lead and go sit at a coffee shop. Maybe I’d meet some cool people that way.
Beth on 01 May 2008 at 12:36 pm #
I highly recommend the coffee shop work. I may even be famous for it. This morning a photographer for the San Diego Union Tribune took my pic for a story. I told him that once he saw all his pics from the coffee shop, he’d definitely choose another person with laptop.
Papa on 01 May 2008 at 1:03 pm #
You paid $1.50 for a cup of coffee? Oh Beth!
Beth on 01 May 2008 at 1:16 pm #
Ha! Have you met my parsimonious papa?
Sarah on 01 May 2008 at 1:51 pm #
i am completely unable to work in public places like that. i am very noise-sensitive. and very easily annoyed by others. it is hard enough having a cat.
that said, i’ve heard that there are certain coffee shops in NYC where “famous” stay-at-home editors and writers meet every day to work. weird.