My office (of sorts)

After working out of the friendly neighbourhood Coffee Day for 7 months, I've finally started working out of my own office. Well, it is a co-working space but wow! coming back to an office like set-up was amazing.

Firstly, choosing to go with a co-working space was a big relief. No hefty deposit, plug and play bliss, no hassles of payment of utility bills / managing house keeping stuff /running around if anything goes down. There are lots of options out there, I was blown away to find multiple options at each of three different locations I was considering. Unless you have some security concerns, either physical or data, this is the best way to start off.

Secondly, it brought a lot of focus in work. No argument with myself whether I need to go to the cafe or not. Now I have a space of my own and its already paid for so I can head there in the morning or after meetings and use it. I realised it also establishes a domain. I've already started scouted out the stationary shop, courier office and of course the grocery store to fulfil the home errands.

A co-working space also gives me the flexibility to add and drop workstations with a short notice. I'm thinking that when I take a dedicated office space in the future, I will ensure there is a co-owrking space in the vicinity so I can continue the flexibility of keeping work stations without disturbing the core team.

In favour of working out of a cafe, it's marginally cheaper and the coffee is better so until you make enough revenue to also manage office rent, keep sipping away and stay away from those calories adding food stuff.