[Mitch]

Although I have only filled in as a bartender (I spent two years as a bouncer), my brother was a bartender for seven years, and all of his friends & roomates were bartenders or bar workers. Bartending is a performance related job. If you’re good, you make better tips. You can be good by being very fast and productive…and during slow times, learn the names, faces, favorite drinks and personal lives of you regular customers. The more drinks you pour, the more tips you get. At large bars, you’re the fighter pilot, and you have barbacks who will set your station up and restock your inventory. In smaller bars you’ll have to cut the limes and refill the mixers yourself. In a large resort town during peak season, a good bartender can bring home over $1,000 a night in tips, easy. Depending on where you are and what kind of bar you work at, you might bring home between $300 to under $30 per night. Your salary will be crap; you will live off of your tips. If you don’t claim these tips to the tax man, you’ll have trouble getting credit and buying a car, since you’ll have no proof of income. You will become a night owl, sometimes not getting home until after sunrise, and you’ll be sticky from spilled drinks, your feet will be tired, your shoes may be soaked, and you’ll reek of cigarette smoke. Your coworkers will become your best friends, and you’ll have no respect for 9 to 5 workers. You will develop a special bond with other hospitality service workers, and will become a better tipper. You’ll know all the best places for all-night food and breakfast, and you’ll usually sleep until late afternoon. While at work, drunk guys (sometimes girls) will hit on you, you’ll learn to hold your liquor since customers will often buy you shots, and you’ll be invited to lots of after-hour parties. You will have no real social life if you work at the bar full time, and nightclubs will seem like any other workplace. After a while, you’ll become a homebody, since you’ll have seen it all, and will prefer not to go clubbing when you’re not getting paid to be in a bar. One day, you’ll panic when you realize you’ve become the oldest person in the bar, and will seek a new line of work. You’ll also run an increased chance of alcoholism, taking up smoking and getting chubby. My response is probably your first, since I surf the internet at night, while most bartenders are busy at work or are sleeping through the day.

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Name : Mitch, Gender : M, Race : White/Caucasian, Age : 44, City : Columbia, State : SC, Country : United States, Occupation : Sub-contractor, artist, Education level : Over 4 Years of College, Social class : Middle class,