I worked half my career with caffeine addicts. Mostly young, mostly male (software engineering). There were still differences between company culture about how folks fed their habit. Every place offered free soda, free coffee and free tea to the programmers. But some places the programmers were happy to take what the company offered, and other places, they’d troop off together to hit the Starbux or equivalent. Three or more times per day. One of my coworkers was spending in excess of $20/day on fancy coffee. Times 5 times 4.2 = $420.00 per month. He was probably pulling in about $12K/month before taxes, so this wasn’t sinking his budget, but imagine he’d put $300/month of that into paying off his student debt?
PS: Having started my adult life working construction, I was in the habit of bringing a lunch. NONE of my coworkers EVER brought their lunch. Not as bad as buying designer coffee, but still probably about $150 / month more than I was spending for lunch. People are strange.
I worked half my career with caffeine addicts. Mostly young, mostly male (software engineering). There were still differences between company culture about how folks fed their habit. Every place offered free soda, free coffee and free tea to the programmers. But some places the programmers were happy to take what the company offered, and other places, they’d troop off together to hit the Starbux or equivalent. Three or more times per day. One of my coworkers was spending in excess of $20/day on fancy coffee. Times 5 times 4.2 = $420.00 per month. He was probably pulling in about $12K/month before taxes, so this wasn’t sinking his budget, but imagine he’d put $300/month of that into paying off his student debt?
PS: Having started my adult life working construction, I was in the habit of bringing a lunch. NONE of my coworkers EVER brought their lunch. Not as bad as buying designer coffee, but still probably about $150 / month more than I was spending for lunch. People are strange.