The working café. Find yourself between jobs? Need a place to work? Drew’s guide to finding a Working Café will have you comfortable, happily networking on LinkedIn and suitably caffeinated with just a few easy steps. Vision Not to be confused with clarity, you’ll need to be able to see what you are doing. Look for a South or East facing café. Natural light is best, it’s invigorating and a pleasant distraction from reviewing game industry vacancies requiring 26+ years of experience, previous space travel and intimate knowledge of astrophysical plasma. Patrons So you’ve found a well-lit café? Great, your second consideration should be who could be sitting beside you or across from you. This could be the lynchpin for a productive (and safe morning of work) So Get Your Bourne On. Take a reading on the other patrons, entrances, exits and note anyone that could torpedo your work efforts. The overly chatty barista, the nosy coffeehouse rat or the mobile phone user who has no sense of how loud they are. These are all high profile risks. Abort and relocate immediately. Barista The barista is your bartender, not unlike the martini-slinging counterpart the dark and psychotropic liquids they distribute are your fuel source and admission for camping out all day. Time to get Your Bourne On again. Consider your barista by friendliness, speed of coffee (or tea) delivery and how often they deploy mobile foot patrols for table cleanup. This is important, this activity acts as a mental yardstick for the barista. “I’ve cleaned the tables 18 times in the last few hours and seen dozens of customers. THAT GUY is still sitting in the corner with enough equipment to pass as a global control system for a PREDATOR DRONE.” Stay under the radar. Don’t let this happen. Your barista should be skilled, friendly and lazy. These three guidelines should help you stay on top of your game, networked, caffeinated and meaningfully employed in a few short trimesters. VISION // BARISTA // PATRONS // BOURNE
Posted on: Tue, 11 Jun 2013 21:31:27 +0000
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