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Showerthought: I swore I'd never pay for a coworking day pass until I got rained out in Medellin
I always grabbed cafe tables and dealt with the noise to save $15 a day. Then a storm hit El Poblado last Tuesday and my hostel wifi died mid call with a client, so I paid $22 at a spot in Laureles just to finish the hour. The call went fine, my back stopped hurting from those tiny chairs, and I booked a week there on the spot. Now I'm wondering what else I'm being cheap about, do you all budget for coworking or just wing it?
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bettyk5313d ago
Wait, hold up, El Poblado to Laureles is not a quick hop. That's like 30 to 40 min in traffic depending on where you were. So you didn't just pay $22, you also lost an hour of your day getting there and back. That's the part people always leave out of the math. If your time is worth anything, the cafe table saved you $15 but cost you two hours of back pain and noise, so the pass was the cheaper option all along. Not saying you did anything wrong, just that the real cost of being cheap is usually time, not money.
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