I am a professional bartender for hire.
I make cocktails.
Bartending is my trade. As one of the oldest and most exciting professions, tending bar for me has been an adventure and still is every time I step behind the bar. My career as a bartender has allowed me to experience things, places and different types of people that no other job could ever do in quite the same way.
Since I started working behind a bar when I was 18 to put myself through college, I have stayed in the industry. After finishing 2 years of higher education, I kept bartending by choice.
Working in clubs and being part of a big city's nightlife can be a bit hectic. Living in the fast lane and being the heartbeat of places that never sleep is not for everyone. I personally live for the moment and embrace life one day at a time.
Location, location, location is everything. Hot spots are ideal for making money as a bartender. The timing must be perfect, and jet-set bartenders can take advantage and reap the rewards of being in the right place at the right time.
From making cocktails on an island paradise to mixing drinks coast to coast. I have done the circuit more than once and am willing to do it all again several more times.
Bartending at major casinos, 4-star restaurants, nightclubs and country clubs has been a way of life for me and my peers. Flipping bottles, serving daiquiris at pools is pretty cool!
Ask yourself this; "Did they ever make a movie about what you do for a living?"