![]() ![]() ![]() He taught me a new drinking philosophy, in which quality is superior to quantity. Though he was a terrible manager, he taught me how to be an excellent bartender. Milk & Honey, LAB, The Player, Mahiki, Claridges, The Bar at the Dorchester, The Groucho Club, The Ivy Club, SoHo House. My manager, incidentally, was a 1990’s veteran of the London bar scene, and had worked at some of London’s most highly rated cocktail bars. Here, through some serious determination to find a bartending job (and some twisted miracle), I started working at a cocktail and wine bar in a world-class hotel. Melbourne, Australia, 2010.īut, as all good things must come to an end, my one-year Australia working holiday visa expired and I continued my worldly journey in the ever stunning New Zealand. My first time behind the bar as a bartender. I was literally cleaning up piss and puke as drunken backpackers spilled three dollar drinks over my head. My grandiose dreams were completely shattered, though, when I realized my role as a barback in one of Australia’s dirtiest backpacker bars. I had dreams of serving drinks to beautiful bikini-clad Australian women whom I would woo and seduce. I decided to pack it in, sell my car (I miss you, baby) and buy a one way ticket to Australia in search of the best travel job I could find-bartending. I had just graduated, the recession had hit, and I was working in an industry that I absolutely loathed. And yeah, I wanted that.Īfter trying my hand at getting bar jobs in my home city of Boston, my fruitless endeavors waned as my intermittent IT contract jobs continued to shorten in length and I was constantly looking for new contracts to pay the bills with. Up until I was about 25 I thought bartending was what all the “cool kids” were doing. And the story of how I, former cubicle-rat, ended up in one of the most social jobs that exists is an unusual one. But there’s more to cocktail bartending than just regular old bartending, or pulling pints at the pub. My “real job,” if you want to call it that, is a playground to many, held in high regard by some, and looked down upon by more than a few. But, of course, we are not always as we seem. For all intents and purposes of this website, I’m a travel blogger. I don’t often discuss my “other” job on this website. ![]()
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