Trying to Move on up
My manager approached me yesterday and offered me a strange proposition. She let me know that the Bellingham store was going to be losing their lead bartender for a month as she went around and opened up two more stores, one in California and one in Washington. The deal given to me was would I want to transfer over to that store and take place as the head bartender - if only for a month.
Initially I jumped at the opportunity, I'd love to get some REAL bar shifts, but I wasn't able to get them because both bartenders here in Bothell had it tied down. I talked it over with Chad - my bar mentor and he said it would be a good idea EXCEPT for the fact that store is more than dead. It's a near ghost town every single night. Not only would I be losing out on working with my "family" for a month or more, but I may not be even making enough money to cover what I'm making here.
What I'm trying to do right now however is get ANY experience possible, because there is a new store opening up soon in Mill Creek. I'd love to head on over there with Liz and become the bartender - but I need some real experience before I'm just tossed in there. It would be a huge step forward for me career-wise and an even larger step for me monetarily.
After talking with my manager a bit he assured me I wouldn't need to work at the slow store to get the experience needed to work at the new one so I'm kind of in a bind. They said they would give me a day of bartending for myself - but that really hasn't happened yet. Recently I did have a Monday shift - which went pretty well, only hectic during one time and that was because I've never had the bar on my own.
And I've been thinking of re-doing my Jell-O shots post. I'll clean myself up a bit more and really take some good step by steps.