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Worked as Bartender for 2 years. I hated it, but I hated doing service jobs and hated waiting tables even more. Part of my problem was the restaurant I worked in. Way too suburban and middle aged for a kid like me-21 in 1984. The wage was better than usual at the time and the tips were good to start, but petered out to nothing. It was a boaters bar on the water and noone carried enough cash. It’s fine if you don’t mind sucking up to drunk folks so they will give you money. People don’t become smarter when they drink more. Nor do they become more attractive. You see a lot of seamy stuff late at night in a bar.I didn’t feel better about mankind after that. I also workde briefly at a really dive place that was very,very,scary. You work hard, everyone else is having fun on the weekends but you. That’s the typical restaurant thing. You work so others can have fun. It used to be a good way to steal stuff, but with surveilance and pour control that’s a lot harder these days. You have to be cheerful always and often wear stupid clothes. Your feet hurt, back hurts from standing. Your hands get really chapped and you suck a lot of second hand smoke. You tolerate a lot of ignorance and aggression. You have to be confident enough to cut someone off or stop a fight. It’s better than waiting because you don’t have to depend on cooks to get your stuff right. It’s fairly independent. You do have to do a lot of cleaning and you always work an 8-9 hour shift without a lunch break or oportunity to sit and rest. That strikes me as illegal, but there’s nothing you can do about it. You will learn a lot about people and have many stories to tell. People will think you are cool. Read the memoir ‘Cosmopolitan’, it will tell you everything you need to know.
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Name : Ann, Gender : F, Sexual Orientation : Straight, Race : White/Caucasian, Religion : Atheist, Age : 41, City : madison, State : WI, Country : United States, Occupation : homemaker, Education level : Over 4 Years of College, Social class : Upper middle class,
