#2680 - Failure Friday: The Co-Working Conundrum
Side Hustle School
Chris Guillebeau
4.7 • 3.3K Ratings
🗓️ 3 May 2024
⏱️ 8 minutes
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Summary
In this week’s Failure Friday segment, we hear from a freelancer who sought community and collaboration in a coworking space, only to find isolation and unmet expectations. Her story reveals the gap between the promise of coworking spaces and the reality of solitary office rental.
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Side Hustle School features a new episode EVERY DAY, featuring detailed case studies of people who earn extra money without quitting their job. This year, the show includes free guided lessons and listener Q&A several days each week.
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Email: team@sidehustleschool.com
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Connect on Instagram: @193countries
Visit Chris's main site: ChrisGuillebeau.com
Read A Year of Mental Health: yearofmentalhealth.com
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| 1:07.0 | conundrum. |
| 1:10.0 | Let's talk about what happens when co-working doesn't work out so well. |
| 1:14.0 | Co-working spaces, sometimes they're more just like office rental as opposed to this grand |
| 1:19.2 | vision of collaboration and networking and such. At least that's what we're going to hear about in today's |
| 1:24.4 | Failure Friday story. This is a collection of short stories. Well the whole segment known |
| 1:28.7 | as Failure Friday is a collection of stories about mistakes, missteps, disasters, of course failure. All the things that don't go. of are starting successful side hustles, making lots of money, or at least making a good amount of money, |
| 1:44.8 | but also sometimes creating really positive change in their life. |
| 1:48.0 | But there are also times in which we need to adjust and regroup and maybe go back to basics or try something different. |
| 1:54.0 | So these stories vary a lot, but they often begin with an idea or an assumption, a |
| 1:59.0 | prediction, and then that idea assumption, prediction meets reality and then how does the person learn |
| 2:04.3 | adjust, adapt and so on. |
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