Hotel Rooms

One thing about big cons, including GenCon is the cost of hotel rooms. It seems like the cost has sky rocketed over the last few years. When I first started going to GenCon and being a low wage college student it was the norm to pile 6 to 8 people into a room to keep the costs down. Then working a full-time job and making a decent wage it seemed easy to take on 5 days at a hotel myself, now it seems like it's gotten to the point almost where there has to be 4-6 people in a room again. Actually this year I ended up cancelling my yearly trip when I realized it was going to be too tight.

So, no GenCon for me this year. Bummer, since I'll be missing friends that I haven't seen in a year at least. What this means to me though is that I need to channel my energy into generating some extra income so that next year I can pay the mortgage and afford a little R&R with friends. I'm trying to adapt some of the things I learned from reading the book, "The $100 Startup: Reinvent the Way you Make a Living, Do What you Love, and Create a New Future" by Chris Guillebeau Chris has a great blog that mostly deals with travel hacking but also has some wonderful insight into starting a company on a small budget and blogging. Definitely check out his post titled, "279 days to Overnight Success"