gotta agree with yournamehere.
It has it's place. You can't beat it while you are in college. Just don't let it take up most of your spare time...
At first it's great, coming from where you come... You are at the club/bar you would be at anyway, you get paid instead of spending, you get a few to alot of free drinks (we got alot
)and at the end of the weekend, you've got alot of money to spend even, instead of having to scrape for a few extra pennies.
That was my original idea.
After a while it gets boring because you realise you can't get from behind the bar at all, especially if you start getting regular shifts. Friends that come around hang on the bar for a few weeks, until they find something interesting to do (because face it, you gotta work after all, can't talk to them all the time).
And after a while, the money doesn't seem to look that good anymore. I'd say that's the moment to say stop and either look for another temp job, or get a real one
I did it for a while, got tired of that and shifted to day-shifts during the weekend (short 4-6h shifts) which weren't maybe the ones that got me the most money, but the atmosphere at the place was totally different, and I had a little less money, but at least when we all got together, I could actually go places with my friends.
Better than going to a local rave after 4am with a few people. Nothing going on there but alcohol-abuse and drugs really. Didn't feel like making that my lifestyle. Although there are always good events there, like a dude that just started stripping for the hell of it, in the end he was covering his crotch with his left hand, singing and waving with his right... Then half the crew started pelting him with red voda (not the bottles, no
)
Or the strippers one night, or the fact that because of working there, when we went out thursday night, we could sneak in there at 4 am, just lie on stage and put a movie on the big screen with a couple of people and then drive home quickly, make a show of getting up and going to school, only to drive back to the club and catch up on some sleep.
I think if you still consider it's not totally ruined, see what different kinds of shifts are available, maybe the atmosphere during a different shift suits you better?
Maybe try to get shifts that alternate, which leave you free to go out with friends ever other time?
The only real point for me though, seems to be it sort of ruined real club-life for me and friends that did it too... Or maybe it's that we just got older and a bit more mature. We don't go clubbing till 7-8am anymore, it sort of got old after 4-5 years of doing it 3-4 nights every week.
I believe I had a point with this post somewhere... At any rate, you wanted a story, I gave ya one.