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Originally Posted by onesnowyowl
That, my friend, is exactly the key.
You don't need to go to bartending school. Become friends with your local neighborhood bartender and watch them work. Take a job in the kitchen or serving--eventually you too can become a bartender. Depending on where you live, it's different, but here in Oregon bars are required by law to serve at least 4 food items. That means a bartender has to be able to not only tend bar but serve food sometimes.
Having general foodservice and service skills sets you up better for bartending than bartending school ever will.
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I know many many servers (I have also been one in the past) that have tried to graduate from this job to become a bartender. Sadly I know of only one who actually accomplished this and it took him about four years to do so. I understand that becoming a bartender's pal would help, are their any other techniques to getting a bartending job?