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Subject: Re: Where should I start?
From: Kent Garber
Posted: Mon Aug 27. 2001, 21:15 UTC
Followup to: "Re: Where should I start?"  by C  (Mon Aug 27. 2001, 19:54 UTC)
You might be comparing apples to oranges.  You were a barback and not a 
bartender.  Did you have any schooling when you worked as a barback?  Did you 
have your "BARCODE" or TIPS certificate.   If you did than you might have been 
treated differently.  If you were a schooled bartender working as a barback 
than I appologize.

"Bartending will teach you nothing about bartending", I tend to disagree.  If 
you work as a barback at many places I know you do everything except take 
money and make and serve drinks.  A number of places when I went looking for a 
job said they DID THERE OWN BARBACKING and they had three bartenders working. 
(That place had the longest bar I have seen yet.) So barbacking will help you 
be a bartender at a place like that, if you have had both the schooling and 
the barbacking as opposed to just coming out of school.


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