If you're at a good spot, you can make a few hundred under the table on a busy night. At those places, you don't need to know how to make drinks, they're looking for someone with the right look and personality. Most people don't order anything complicated anyway.
The people I knew at bars just laughed when someone that went to one of those ripoff bartending schools tried to apply for a bartending job. Acting all hard and using a jigger and bragging that they know how to make a godmother or grasshopper or some other bullshyt that no one was ever going to order.
Yeah for the most part, you aint making anything too complicated at all...
Also depends on the spot....regular bar, esp one with a great beer selection, has a beer drinking clientele so you pouring beers, making jack n coke, rum n coke and the occasional martini for a female...those spots you make bank and are moving alot but aint killing yourself with making those stupid drinks.
Some spots that have alot of females that think they in Sex in the City will have you making Cosmopolitans, Mojitos and all kinds of pain in the ass drinks...sometimes you get an ollllllllllld head ordering something you never heard of and have you like

only to find out its called by another name and old head still calling it by its 1950 name
at the hood bars no one orders that shyt but when I go downtown they do be ordering them crazy ass drink
and they have different names for the same drinks that have just one or 2 ingredients different
yeah hood bars, you crackin open heinekens and coronas and pouring some henny...nothing too crazy
some of the clubs Ive been at tho....these bytches think they fancy
