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Subject: Re: Has This Happened To Other Bartenders?
From: Fillup
Posted: Tue Aug 7. 2001, 23:44 UTC
Followup to: "Has This Happened To Other Bartenders?"  by BigDeal  (Tue Aug 7. 2001, 16:47 UTC)
> Bartending is a great part-time job to earn extra cash while going to 
> school.  The money is just too easy.  There are all kinds of parties 
> and events that you're invited to because you meet everyone.  The 
> girls would love to meet you for a drink when you get off.  It's so 
> fun that school suffers eventually and is put on hold.  There's no 
> motivation to return right now.  After leaving the bar at midnight or 
> later, who wants to study?  Who wants to wake up and go to class?  
> Four, five years later you're getting a little older and the thought 
> of becoming an old bartender is depressing.  But the lifestyle still 
> has a hold on you.  You're not trained to do anything else to make 
> more money.  You toy with the idea of returning to school, but then 
> you wonder, what for?  What job even sounds appealing to me at this 
> point?  You feel trapped in the bar like that guy in the Billy Joel 
> song and you wonder, "How can I ever get out of this place?"


       Yes, as a matter of fact. I kept returning to school, and  I am 
probably going to quit tending bar next June after thrity years. It isn't such 
a bad ride to be an old bartender, but looking back, I would have returned to 
school with more intent.

                   Fillup.


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