Being a software developer, I drink coffee a lot. It's not that I find my job boring, and contrary to the stereotype, it's not just a case of sitting like a little monkey in a cubicle writing thousands of lines of code without any human interaction. So even though I do enjoy my job, coffee does help to put an extra positive spin on the day, and it tastes good (mostly).
The only drawback is that I find it quite expensive to support my habit. Obviously I'd prefer to have a Starbucks than an instant coffee, but if every coffee I drank was a Starbucks it'd cost me about £40 a week and I'd be so fat that I'd be the subject of a Channel 4 documentary. So I always have a jar of instant at my desk, because I refuse to drink the pig swill that comes out of the vending machine.
I've tried a few different brands, but learned a lesson when I brought in a jar of 'Nescafe Original'.
It was cheaper to buy than the other types, and you get a huge jar for the price. But the lesson I quickly learned this morning was that you really do get what you pay for.
It's vile. It induces you to screw up your face with horrible bitterness as you drink it, then leaves a taste in your mouth that resembles the pencil you chewed in Maths. I now have a huge jar of coffee on my desk that I won't use.
But in this office of stressed out people, if I leave it in the kitchen it will get used up by those who forgot to bring their own coffee, those who can't afford a Starbucks or just those who will take anything as long as it hasn't come out of the vending machine. So I'll do that.
It's back to the shops to get a better jar of coffee for tomorrow, and it definitely will not be Nescafe.
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