Bartending – What it’s Really Like
Written by rifqi on August 31st, 2009 in Careers.
We as the public usually only see the bright side to a restaurant job. Media never seems to portray the ugly side of anything. Many jobs are portrayed on television totally different from what they really are in true life and then the public start to believe that is the way life should be.
An excellent example of a false media portrayal of job function is a bartender. A bartender is a skilled employee who mixes drinks at a bar but there are just as many other important employees who also make up the big picture in a business. Their interactions with the public depend on what type of establishment they work in.
If a bartender is working in a high end or fancy type of restaurant, he/she may have little or no contact with the customers. It would be the wait staff that would be interacting with them. In a smaller, more casual bar setting, the bartender could be constantly interacting with the customer. Depending on where they are working, whether it be a restaurant or a dance club, determines how much they deal with the customer. Bartenders make great tips if they are dealing with the public and give great customer service just like any other employee that works in the service industry.
The way media portrays a bartender makes them a type of person who can give legal, religious and psychiatric advice to their customers. If this were really true they wouldn’t be tending bar, they’d be in a different profession. There are courses to enrol in to learn how to be a bartender to help them find a job in that field. It can be fun but can also be a very busy job that requires excellent customer service skills. Men and women both make great bartenders.
A bartender is a good job if that is what you want to do. It won’t make you into a superhero or make you who everyone wants to depend on for sound advice. The media lures us in by portraying characters and their every day lives as way too perfect and gratifying.
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