Yeah, it's crazy hard work,
Bit I think the biggest drain is that you have to make it your life, you can't do it and then also go out and have mates and stuff like normal. I think most people that get in to it don't realise that.
I remember meeting a couple that had bought a pub as their retirement thing, lasted 6 months and sold up.
( Windy Pig I'm naturally quite suspicious about the moon., Wed 19 Feb 2014, 18:53, 2 replies, latest was 11 years ago)

^
Even being a bar manager drains you. it really does become your life.
Say goodbye to weekends and public holidays.
( GeordieJay Bummers are deaf, Wed 19 Feb 2014, 18:59, Reply)

Alright Jason,
I thought every night was the weekend in the gay quarter?

I actually did a relief month in a gay bar in a gay bar, those poor cleaners had to deal with a lot of stuff I wouldn't touch.
( Windy Pig I'm naturally quite suspicious about the moon., Wed 19 Feb 2014, 19:06, Reply)

hand relief

(katie hopkins telling it where its at, Wed 19 Feb 2014, 19:15, Reply)

Nonsense, it is hardly coal mining. Don't confuse hard work with long hours.
Working for a chain, brewery, being a tenant or leaseholder then pubs are a mugs game. Free of Tie and then you should really find it impossible to not make money - unless of course you overstaff and the staff are thieving robbing bastards and you are too stupid to do regular stock checks.
( d.r._and_quinch when will you be famous?, Wed 19 Feb 2014, 19:04, Reply)

i think a lot of people could fuck it up royally, tbh

( rachelswipe with a fork, Wed 19 Feb 2014, 19:07, Reply)

You're a moron.

( Windy Pig I'm naturally quite suspicious about the moon., Wed 19 Feb 2014, 19:08, Reply)

i did bar work for years, when i wanted to prove to my dad that i could do two jobs, and then found i loved it
it's great fun, but physically exhausting. I can only imagine what being in charge must be like.
( rachelswipe with a fork, Wed 19 Feb 2014, 19:10, Reply)

It's trying to combine running a business,
And all the administration and organisation and training a invoicing and everything involved in running a full time business, with a staff that are mostly morons with customers that have little or no respect for you, and working the nights and weekends while trying to hold together a social life and a drinking habit that get you.
( Windy Pig I'm naturally quite suspicious about the moon., Wed 19 Feb 2014, 19:14, Reply)

I've done plenty of bar work myself
But I'd never have gone down the management/tenant road.

Having said that - you put that on your CV and you've ticked an awful lot of boxes.
( The Disappointed Caravanner of the year, Wed 19 Feb 2014, 19:19, Reply)

I've done bar work too!
I found it exhausting but fun!
(dozers, do fuck off ur a nob m8, Wed 19 Feb 2014, 19:27, Reply)

ahahaha nice try, trollololol junior
you'd be a terrible barman. sneering at their tastes and leering at their feet.

urrrrrgh.
( rachelswipe with a fork, Wed 19 Feb 2014, 19:28, Reply)

no, I really really have

(dozers, do fuck off ur a nob m8, Wed 19 Feb 2014, 19:28, Reply)

i'm sure you have
i'm sure you were terrible.

boring the tits off everyone about fucking whisky.
( rachelswipe with a fork, Wed 19 Feb 2014, 19:30, Reply)

nah, this was when I was a student and not into whisky

(dozers, do fuck off ur a nob m8, Wed 19 Feb 2014, 19:34, Reply)

well hurry up and get to kensington so we can not meet you in a pub
or tell you the wrong pub or something
( rachelswipe with a fork, Wed 19 Feb 2014, 19:35, Reply)

xmas

(dozers, do fuck off ur a nob m8, Wed 19 Feb 2014, 19:37, Reply)

idiot
that's ages
( rachelswipe with a fork, Wed 19 Feb 2014, 19:37, Reply)

the summer staff do is either Kenzers or Amsterdam

(dozers, do fuck off ur a nob m8, Wed 19 Feb 2014, 19:39, Reply)

Bar work is fun, I do miss it a bit.

( Windy Pig I'm naturally quite suspicious about the moon., Wed 19 Feb 2014, 19:28, Reply)

it was a long time ago
But yeah, it was fun.
(dozers, do fuck off ur a nob m8, Wed 19 Feb 2014, 19:29, Reply)