# Should I go to bartending school?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/should-i-go-to-bartending-school/559046>\
**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [November 1, 2010, 3:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/should-i-go-to-bartending-school/559046 "2010-11-01T03:33:44Z")\
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**Author:** ![BurnMeUp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/91b2a8/32.png) [@BurnMeUp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BurnMeUp)\
**Post date:** [November 3, 2010, 8:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/should-i-go-to-bartending-school/559046/61 "2010-11-03T20:54:35Z")

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I have heard some of the local bartending schools do walk you through the info necessary to get your liquor handler’s permit but then again so would reading a book.

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**Author:** ![salinqmind](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/3ec8ea/32.png) [@salinqmind](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/salinqmind)\
**Post date:** [November 4, 2010, 1:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/should-i-go-to-bartending-school/559046/62 "2010-11-04T01:07:47Z")

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I know a 40-ish woman who: wanted a “fun” job; was seriously looking into going to “bartender school” because she thought it would give her an inside edge AND that this school was going to find her a nice bartending job in a ritzy section of town; was confident she could easily pay her rent with all the great tips she heard she could expect from customers; and she would really only be available to work on weekend nights.

:rolleyes:

There was so much wrong with this plan! Thank god she found other employment.

My only other bartender story is our 60- something neighbor worked for 15 years part time at a neighborhood dive. The no-smoking law went into effect and business dropped like an anvil off a skyscraper. Sometimes he had no more than five or six customers in a whole evening. The bar owner gave up, sold the bar to a woman who promptly fired our neighbor and replaced him with a pair of big tits in a tight sweater. Oh, and she had grand plans to remodel the whole place, start serving food, put up big screen TVs on every wall like The Big League…well, it’s been 5 years now, I drive past the place every evening, have been inside once in a while, and nothing at all has changed. The big boobs change every so often, but somehow the parking lot is still always empty.

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**Author:** ![OpalCat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/8edcca/32.png) [@OpalCat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OpalCat)\
**Post date:** [November 4, 2010, 5:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/should-i-go-to-bartending-school/559046/63 "2010-11-04T05:45:32Z")

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The Groupon expired so the question is moot for now. But even just for fun if it came up again I might do it. They also had a $55 one day crash course that might have been fun (also Groupon price).

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