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Subject: Re: any advice appreciated
From: Mister2
Posted: Sat May 6. 2006, 10:41 UTC
Followup to: "Re: any advice appreciated"  by Spellbinder  (Fri May 5. 2006, 18:45 UTC)
> > well i do understand i wont be working the busiest shift right off 
> > 
> > the bat, but advice on how to get your name out there as a serious 
> > 
> > bartender is more of what i was going for...b/c neighborhood pubs do 
> > 
> > just usually serve beer and restaurants usually have the same 
> > mandatory list containing mostly wine/beer...this is what i was 
> > trying to avoid. your comment is what i know potential employers will 
> > 
> > be thinking too, she can't handle the job while in the 
> > weeds...there's no experience! i think if i can handle five screaming 
> > 
> > kids that contiuosly want and need entirely every minute of everyday, 
> > 
> > i can handle customers that just need to be acknowledge no matter how 
> > 
> > busy you are. 
> 
> So, here's a couple questions...on your first day as a nanny, did you 
> handle five screaming kids?  Did you have prior life experience of 
> some kind that would prepare you for handling five kids?  Was there 
> somebody there to help you?
> 
> The answers to those questions, I'm pretty sure, should convey that 
> it's not very many people that can handle the job while in the weeds. 
>  I think if a group of professional bartenders wrote out a list of 
> all the things you need to be able to handle while behind a bar, you 
> would have a huge laundry list of issues.  You are saying that you 
> can handle the customers (and that's the particular thing I had when 
> I first started too).  Add to that the ability to move quickly, 
> memorize orders, know TONS of drink recipes, know all of the bottles, 
> and lots of other things.  Bar schools are a way of learning some 
> beginning technical details, but they aren't going to prepare you for 
> all of those things.  It's not necessarily a bad idea to take it a 
> little slower in the beginning to get a feel for all of the demands 
> of bartending.

Exactly.  Your drive to succeed is admirable, but don't convince yourself that 
you're the end-all, be-all of bartenders just yet - you still have a lot to 
learn.  But, take it in stride and have fun with it, and you'll get there.


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