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Subject: Re: Just started tending bar
From: Stardust
Posted: Mon Jul 3. 2006, 05:06 UTC
Followup to: "Just started tending bar"  by Cynthia McGinnis  (Sun Jul 2. 2006, 21:22 UTC)
> Hello everyone.  I am really new to the bartending business and was 
> wondering about how much pay to ask for. I just started at a small 
> honky tonk in West Virginia and to be truthfull the pay isn't much. I 
> took it to learn the trade and since I was always there it seemed 
> like a good idea.  I started as a favor to the owner who I have 
> become friends with.  I bring in a lot of men who love to buy me 
> drinks so business has really picked up.  I am a natural behind the 
> bar it seems.  Customers like my sassiness and looks.  I am just 
> learning to mix drinks but am catching on quick.  I thought about 
> looking into a school but the owner of the bar I am currently working 
> at has been in business for 40 years so I figured he can teach me a 
> lot.  I have already been offered another job by a customer who is 
> opening his own bar closer to my home.  He offered me the head 
> bartending job but I am a little worried since I am so new to this. I 
> explained to him I was new to bartending and he seemed really 
> surprized. He said he was watching me with the customers and handling 
> the money and I was really good at it.  Even dealing with rude drunks 
> and talking down fights.  I have worked in security, retail stores, 
> paralegal for awhile, physical thereapy and have managed other people 
> at previous jobs.  I have been out of work for 10 years because of 
> some serious injuries I received and am just rejoining the job 
> market.  I am a karate student so I can handle myself in a bar fight 
> or at least get out of the way. LOL  I would love to own my own bar 
> someday.  

Everything you need to know is right here.  Good luck to you.
-- 
Star


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