Anyone Here Bartends?

[HacksawJimThuggin]

I've worked at a ton of bars and clubs in my life in various capacities. At a poppin spot, you're probably looking at 500+ on good night's (usually Friday and Saturday and maybe a weekday). Slow nights, probably around 200. That's probably not the case everywhere, but drinks are so damn expensive down here, thus causing the tips to be more as well.

Definitely a good option for anyone in their early 20s, shyt paid my bills all through college and I was doing Wilt Chamberlain numbers just off the strength of working at these spots and meeting so many women on a regular basis

 

[aRoMaN21]

pass me one of these breh

if you like blakk and tans, you should try a blakk and blue or a blakk velvet

 

[Francis White]

Guy i know who works at a top NYC club works 3 days a week and can afford an apartment in Manhattan, i would say he is doing very well, you must a look and a great personality, this guy i am talking about knows my name and drink as soon i step to the bar, plus he hooks me up from time to time.

 

[2Quik4UHoes]

I been thinkin bout this since I worked at Starbucks, feel like it's the same concept just with alcohol and at a good spot you cake off. I was gonna take a two week course but I don't know if I'ma get the job I want and it'd suck to spend money for nothin.

 

[Regular_P]

It looks like a fun profession to be in honestly, plus i'm a weekend alcoholic so shyt would work out good for me if I ever lost my current job.

One of the dudes I know was a bartender for around 3 years and quit.

My boy used to bartend at a small local spot in san jose. Motherfukker thought shyt was fun at first. But nikka seriously got annoyed by the shyt because the same people would be there all the time. Same motherfukkers started shyt. Got tired of listening to simps and damaged bytches whining bout shyt. I remember one time I was chillin with dude coppin some free drinks while he was working and he pulled out three glasses and told me "watch this mexican bytch coming in". This broad would sit down and ask for a drink and be like "I'm just having one drink and gottah head out". So middle aged dusty latina sipped on her shyt and was all ready to go and shyt saying bye and leaving her tip. This broad walked 10 feet away and came right back like "I'm gonnah have just one more before I go!". Had that one and was ready to dip and boom motherfukker turned around for the 3rd. Anyway that shyt was like to me I said "damn breh you on some psychic shyt!". Dude looked me like " fukk this job and these miserable ass people".

Anyway that's just some local neighborhood bar spot, I'm pretty sure shyt is more fun bar-tending at a club that's poppin.

Sounds like my experience bartending.

It was cool at first, but evevntually, the people just wear you out. Some people are built for it and are really social, but dealing with the general public everyday wore me out.

The money was pretty good (the only things that got taxed were the bullshyt checks ) and you do get to meet a lot of people, but eventually I just felt like I was stuck in a rut.

Like your friend, I'd see the same people all the time and some of them would annoy the shyt out of me.

Not a bad gig while you're going through college or trying to get a regular job, but nothing to do long-term.

Edit: I learned how to make a variety of different drinks too, especially margaritas. That was definitely a plus.

 

[Pack2]

I was doing Wilt Chamberlain numbers just off the strength of working at these spots and meeting so many women on a regular basis

bartending as a single man in my early/mid twenties

I been thinkin bout this since I worked at Starbucks, feel like it's the same concept just with alcohol and at a good spot you cake off. I was gonna take a two week course but I don't know if I'ma get the job I want and it'd suck to spend money for nothin.

It is a similar concept in that you have to be good with people and patient with them....the alcohol make people act up alot more than a caramel latte

def worth taking a class tho....if you dont get the job you want, there are always others until you find the right fit for you

 

[porque]

I went to a hood bar on a Thursday for the first time which I can only do now that I'm unemployed

I heard that place was popping on Thursday and surprisingly it was true they even had bartenders from other bars, but of course it was all Heineken and Coronas them mofos were bringing out carts full of cases of the stuff

and of course people where taking shots of the usual Ciroq, Bacardi and Hennessy

but again no male bartenders although the security looked like they where having a good time too so maybe thats another option although no tips

 

[Singh]

Sounds like my experience bartending.

It was cool at first, but evevntually, the people just wear you out. Some people are built for it and are really social, but dealing with the general public everyday wore me out.

The money was pretty good (the only things that got taxed were the bullshyt checks ) and you do get to meet a lot of people, but eventually I just felt like I was stuck in a rut.

Like your friend, I'd see the same people all the time and some of them would annoy the shyt out of me.

Not a bad gig while you're going through college or trying to get a regular job, but nothing to do long-term.

Edit: I learned how to make a variety of different drinks too, especially margaritas. That was definitely a plus.

Thanks for the cosign on that shyt

But yea not a bad come up job but nothing to make a career out of in the long run from what the homie said

 

[MouseTeeth]

Every job i had in HS/college was in the bar. Started out barbacking, then moved on to being a bartender, now i just DJ (which is better because the pay is steady n i don't have to deal with ppl as much). The biggest part of bartending is dealing with your customers and knowing bar etiquette like knowing when to give someone a buyback and shyt like that. That's how u get repeat customers and make good tip money. Where im at, its predominantly Irish, so the bar culture is heavy around here. But, the downside is u have to be able to handle yourself when ppl get too drunk, start fighting, or are a$$holes in general. It gets stressful at times, but the money is good if u can get a good gig somewhere. At the end of the day, its not for me, i like dj'ing way more...but if you can handle it, its a great second job to have and you learn a lot about the business.