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Pro tip: a hostel owner in Medellin roasted my work setup and it saved my back
Three months into my first long stint abroad I was working from a bunk bed in a hostel in Medellin, laptop on my knees, hunched over like a shrimp for six or seven hours a day. The owner, this blunt Colombian guy named Andres, walked past my bed one morning, stopped, and asked me how long I planned to wreck my spine like that. I laughed it off until he pulled up a chair and showed me his setup: a $15 wooden lap desk from the market down the street, a rolled towel under his laptop, and his screen propped up on a stack of books so the top was at eye level. He said his brother is a physio and that most of the backpackers who come through his place leave with neck pain, not memories. I bought the same lap desk that afternoon, started working from an actual table instead of my bunk, and set a timer so I stand up every 45 minutes. Six weeks later the constant knot between my shoulder blades was gone. It sounds stupid but I had been treating my body like it did not matter as long as the wifi was fast. How do you all deal with the ergonomics problem when you are moving cities every month or two?
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