I worked as a bartender for 1½ years before I finally quit.
I was 22 and had a terrific time, but what did me in... no intellectual challenge. Just the same shit. Every friggin night. You put your development on complete hold. In addition, it's a bitch to clean up, and you need 2-3 days to recover from a full weekend of shifts (thurs-sat), so it can be phsyically exhausting, too - especially if it's not an efficiently run show, which most bars aren't.
I was lucky and found a place where being drunk was encouraged (as long as you could still servie the guests).
I read WestCoást said a good cocktail bartender could make 150K in Manhattan.
I never went to bartending school, but I'm pretty sure most people who saw me work would consider me a professional. I've been out of the loop a while now so I'm rusty, but I can still whizz up some stuff that gets panties wet. I posted a full cocktail list in another thread (one of my first posts).
I was 22 and had a terrific time, but what did me in... no intellectual challenge. Just the same shit. Every friggin night. You put your development on complete hold. In addition, it's a bitch to clean up, and you need 2-3 days to recover from a full weekend of shifts (thurs-sat), so it can be phsyically exhausting, too - especially if it's not an efficiently run show, which most bars aren't.
I was lucky and found a place where being drunk was encouraged (as long as you could still servie the guests).
I read WestCoást said a good cocktail bartender could make 150K in Manhattan.
I never went to bartending school, but I'm pretty sure most people who saw me work would consider me a professional. I've been out of the loop a while now so I'm rusty, but I can still whizz up some stuff that gets panties wet. I posted a full cocktail list in another thread (one of my first posts).
A year from now you'll wish you started today