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Am I short changing myself?

  • 23-02-2014 1:27pm
    #1
    scubie steve
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 31 ✭


    I have just spent the last 3 years in New Zealand and Australia and I came home as my visa's were done and I am in time hoping to move onto Canada or the states.I have just been offered a job in a bar on minimum wage the same as what someone who has never worked in a bar would get,this despite years of experience in 4 countries including a good knowledge or cocktails,wine & the quirks of bar tending as well as 2 employee of the month awards in different countries.

    Am I wrong just to settle for a minimum wage job(theres no wiggle room on wages) or should I hold out for something better?


Comments

  • #2
    helimachoptor
    Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators Posts: 21,725 Mod ✭✭✭✭helimachoptor


    Take it and use it as an opportunity to move up in that bar or look elsewhere for a more senior position


  • #3
    Mrs OBumble
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 26,434 ✭✭✭✭Mrs OBumble


    Take the job - and quit as soon as you get once better. That's pretty much how minimum wage works.

    Unless of course someone else is offering you more money now.


  • #4
    Ray Palmer
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,868 ✭✭✭Ray Palmer


    What country are you being offer a minimum wage in? Bar work in the US always pays minimum wage due to tips. Getting into a bar with good tips is therefore important not what they pay. It really matters too.
    One friend of mine works in a very small bar in New York but makes a fortune in tips. Another guy I know makes about a quarter of what he gets working in a bar in NY also. Much bigger bar but less customers.


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