Here I am, sitting at a 24-hour net cafe, my favourite one, Digital Alliance on Helmcken and Homer so I can pay 2.50 and hour to write when I have a perfectly beautiful Apple powerbook with free internet at home. Why? Cause I work best under the pressure of money, time or other people’s dissaproval. Funny how when I was studying creative writing at university I would sit infront of a blank screen for hours and hours and finally hand in nothing and fail course after course because of what I perceived as my inability to write. Now, I write all the time and find myself thinking about writing all the time. Same with web design. I’ll slave days straight on a site for free but then offer to pay me for it and it’ll take me months. Same with my current reason for being here… I’m more effective a worker when I am paying to work than if someone is paying me to work. I should keep this in mind for when I am getting paid to work. My strategy will simply be to come here and pay 2.50 an hour to work on their machines. The pressure of the money I am losing for every hour I dick around will make me work harder and I can keep the difference on my paycheck.
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