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Subject: don`t give up
From: John Graeber "AKA" heybartenderdude
Posted: Fri Sep 14. 2001, 14:46 UTC
Followup to: "Re: sex and the city drink "click your heels together 3 times & repeat after me there is no place like the bar... no place like"  by Kent Garber  (Fri Sep 14. 2001, 12:53 UTC)
> Just curious if you know how old the Ruby drink is?
i have had it for 3 years got it from a bartender i worked with
in Arizona how long he had it i don`t know

it took me 2 months after i got out of school to find my first job 
school could not find me a job in Arizona then when i moved to California
i should think it would be ez here i was wrong they have the same school out 
here
but it the same old same old they say try this place try that place no luck
its like this i go to bar & clubs and order a drink every  tender should
know like a long island for this i get a vodka sour with coke if 
i wanted a vodka sour with coke i would of asked for one if i tell her
how to make the drink do i get a tip. i asked the owners or managers 
if they need help they say we only hire girls i say what !!  who dont know how 
to make a cocktail he looks around at everybody and they are 
drinking beer he walk away. it took me 5 weeks 
out here to get a job tending but i like it here..

dont give up have you tried internet search
here are some i found 

http://www.foodwork.com/index.cfm

http://www.hcareers.com/seeker/

http://www.restaurantjobs.com/
 
http://www.hospitalityonline.com/jobs/

http://www.restaurantjobsnetwork.com/careerfair/index.html
  
http://www.bartendingjobs.com/


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"All right, brain, I don't like you and you don't like me  
so let's just do this and I'll get back to killing you with beer." 
-Homer J Simpson-


Mark your calendar now, Nov. 27,2001, 
will be America's Bartender Appreciation Day.

> > so hows the job hunting going
> 
> 
> The job I thought I had on Monday.  He called me up on Tusday and 
> said he apologized, he got tied up on Monday.  He told me I was still 
> being considered and then yesterday morning I see an add in the 
> paper.  He is requesting an experienced bartender only.  I called the 
> school.  They are going to call him and ask what was wrong with the 
> people that were sent.  The school told me to call on Saturday and 
> they will let me know what's going on.  But I know and so do you.  I 
> graduated school as a bartender, what a joke, more like a "beginner 
> in  mixology."  In other words a bartender is 10% mixologist 25% 
> psychiatrist 35% salesman and 30% entertainer.  You can only learn 
> this on the job, so I ask myself why does my certificate say 
> Bartender?  In other words I really don't blame the establishments 
> for wanting a true bartender, not someone with a piece of paper.  The 
> title bartender is something that you earn with experience.  I just 
> wish they would be a little more cooperative and up front.
> 
> The school gave me some more places to go yesterday.  However most 
> will just end up puting an add in the paper for an experienced 
> barteder only.


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