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05-24-2013 06:45 AM |
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Originally Posted by unnecessary drama
(Post 9705783)
one of my best friends in Chicago when I was younger would work at a downtown bar...and he was phenomenal...as a bartender (Crobar - terrible bar)...and make $1000+ per night.
Quit.
Said the drug scene was going to kill him...would always get coked out of his mind with the rest of the staff...
but he was literally the best bartender I ever worked with...just phenomenal. Fast, efficient, amazing personality...
so if you can handle not succumbing to peer pressure there is plenty of potential to make a shit ton of money
shit, I cleared 50K when I was 22 working at Bennigan's in Chicago
worked my ass off, worked the busiest days, and worked as much as they let me
it's not something you can make a career out of
it's a 20-30 year old job...once you hit 30, and if you're still doing it, you're just going to hate yourself
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Truth. You actually can do it as a career (I have friends who do at high end restaurants, and it's definitely a career in resort areas as well as big cities). You absolutely MUST have discipline, though. Staying out drinking and snorting away your tips at the end of the night is way, way too easy.
You've got $400 cash in your pocket after working a long shift (note, I'm talking Arkansas bartenders, not big city, where $1000 would be comparable). You sit down for your shift drink, which turns into a couple. Then everyone decides to go have one more at the bar down the street. Then there's a band playing, so why not? Then you run into some blow at the show and hang out with the band. And hey, there's an after party with even more blow and the band will be there. Then it's 6 in the morning, and you haven't had any sleep, and you have $50 of your original $400. But, that's alright, because you're going to work again tonight and will probably get another $400.
Way too easy of a trap to fall into. Career bartenders skip the shift drink and go straight home once they clock out, depositing their cash in the bank on the way if possible.
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