Pub work..again!

TheMilkyPirate

Im very interested in working in a bar or nightclub behind the bar. Problem is im only 16 and i can't pull pints until i am 18 (or can i?)

I ventured into my local nightclub bar the other day and they said come back with a cv. So if i go back with a cv and get the job what kind of work would i be doing? and would there be a chance of me going onto work behind the bar?

Anybody on here any experience of working behind a bar? Did you enjoy it and what are the hours and the pay like?

Thank you in advance.

Sam Vimes

i wouldn't recommend working in a pub and especially a club if you're 16. they'll have you working long (illegal) hours. they stop paying you at half 12 i think it is but you dont go home until the place is clean, usually 1 to 2 hours later. and you'll do all the crap jobs that the older people don't want to do.

and in a club you won't get tips which is the only thing that makes bar work semi-bearable

go and work in dunnes. it's an alright job and it'll prepare you to deal with retarded manager when you're older

dermo88

If you want my opinion, it has changed a lot in the last 10 years since I worked at it as a student. For one thing there is the minimum wage, and that unpaid overtime nonsense that happened before is no longer the case.

Tips are also a lot better now. Back then, a lot of customers would'nt give you the steam off their piss.

The lads however, get to do the dirty work, such as mopping, cleaning, sorting out empty bottles, shifting stock, cleaning kitchens. Depending on who you work for, they'll bung you a bit extra on the side to make up for the loss on tips, and the tips make up a fair bit of the income.

The pay is crap, the hours are vile,

Thank God for the smoking ban, even though I do smoke, its a lot better for staff without stale fag smoke in the air.

My guess is now, you would be restricted from working there as a 16 year old. Back in the early 1990's, noone gave a damn. These days its Eastern Europeans and Asians doing the same job Irish students did then.

If you want to experience stress and pressure, then go for it. But then again, the owner of the place I worked at was somewhere further to the right of Adolf Hitler and Margaret Thatcher in terms of labour relations. Jobs were not as easy to come by as now, even though I searched for others.

I stuck it out for three years. Only because I was capable of working hard, had a hard neck, and was willing to do the job. Later on, I gained respect for that. Not everyone is like that, and looking back, I did it knowing that anything else after could never ever be as hard again.

It can be good fun. The social life is just as good as the job. I think most people do it for the social life, certainly not for the money.

If your good at it, it takes 5 years work, an apprenticeship, and your looking at being fully qualified, with enough knowledge to handle pub/bar management.

Mimikyu

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TheMilkyPirate

Thanks for the reply's lads. Think im gonna hold out on the bar work for a year or 3.. Sign up for fas in the morning and see what comes about! Thanks again.