How do you work 'remotely'?

[Biancadelriosback]

Okay, so I'm currently sat in a coffee shop in my local city centre, trying to work and failing!
A few days a month I am required to work 'remotely' and I live quite far away so can't work from home. How do you do it? Am I missing a trick? Our city used to have a free hot desking space which was great but it's closed down now. At the coffee shop I have to keep my legs crossed so I don't leave my laptop unattended, I'm taking up a table and feel bad (have no problem if people want to join me), i keep having to buy coffees so I'm not a CF, now I'm hyper as fuck and can't concentrate! I had never done this before a couple of months ago so wondering how others do it? Should I be changing coffee shops every few hours?

See if there is a tech centre near you which rents out to start ups. They do hot desking for a pittance and cheaper if you buy blocks of hours

Near me, there are a couple of quite nice hotels (off motorway) where I see lots of people having meetings and doing their work. Many are just sitting in the general open plan foyer area ( ie not in a designated coffee shop). lots don’t seem to have a coffee.

You could get a tea... or a water?? I might have missed the point.

When I was at an airport they had work pods which had a desk and chair plus WiFi etc. You could rent them by the hour. I’ve also seen them in places like service stations. Might be worth seeing if there are any near you.

Hotel lobbies are another good place to work. You can just pretend you’re waiting for skmeone who doesn’t turn up!!

Alternatively get work to cough up for a mobile broadband dongle and park yourself up somewhere nice and work in the car.

I used to study for hours in coffee shops (and pubs! Our local one was very quiet during the day). I don’t drink coffee so I’d have soft drinks or water. Try that