It is very difficult to do both. We just opened up in September and myself and the other co-owner work full time outside of the city of where the coworking space is. There is not a way for us to do our job remotely as we are in the human services field. Myself the other co-owner are here in the space in the evenings after work and we take every other Saturday. We have workshare members that man the desk a couple of days during the week.
I think you have an upper hand because you are at least in the space so if people come in,your there to answer questions. We are aren't at the point yet that we can even think about quitting our jobs. There isn't anyone (family members, significant others, nest egg) we can fall back on. It's tough. We are restrategizing for the upcoming year, because we really want to make this work. Are there other people that own the space? Do you have a Community Manager or front desk person? Jess On Thursday, December 18, 2014 9:18:31 AM UTC-5, Jason Phelps wrote: > > I currently work for a company remotely and spend my days at a coworking > space. I am looking at the option of starting my own coworking space to > meet a need in a particular location in town. I've read some stories of > others starting their own space while working fulltime, but those posts > were from 3+ years ago. Not to negate the value of experiences that are > old, I wanted to see if there's anyone that has done that recently and how > it impacted your ability to start your space. > > The other aspect of this that is probably more difficult to predict or > control is profitability and the ability to actually do this full time. A > comment I found on this forum said regarding the time to make the jump to > doing coworking fulltime was "it's a singular moment where you just know." > I wanted to hear from other owners here if it is possible to actually do > coworking fulltime, or if I should not even be thinking along those lines > and just focus on solving a need here in town and let it grow as it does. > I'm curious what others have seen in their experience. > > I'll be doing some digging here and possibly even have some questions > around recommendations for management software, door locks, etc. But for > now, I'm honestly just open to hearing advice from those that have gone > down this road and learned lessons that I'd prefer not to learn the hard > way :-) Whether that's business partners, leasing vs. owning, etc., I'm > open to advise and wisdom from all the experts here. > > I'm so glad I found this group - looking forward to reading and learning! > -- Visit this forum on the web at http://discuss.coworking.com --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Coworking" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
