Lee Gets A Job!

I now have a job again.  It was a nice little month and half of being unemployed, but I knew it couldn't last forever.  My new job is probably as far from my previous analyst job as I could have gotten.  I will be working in Front Of House of a brand new Cafe/Bar down the street from our apartment.  The place is named Gasworks (it has to do with a historical power plant that used to be in Miramar).  Basically, it's going to be a Cafe in the morning and afternoon, and then around dinner and after dinner it will serve more as a local pub/bar.  I say "will" because it's not open yet.  It opens next week.  It's pretty cool getting in at the start of a new place. Everyone is training together, so no one looks like a dumbass when we don't know what to do!  It's a pretty young group of people running it.  I would say the owners and managers are between 30 and 40 years old.  The other staff I am being trained with are pretty young as well.  I would say I am on the older side of other employees.  There are two other Americans too.  The Americans are two guys from Florida who just graduated college and are also on working holiday visas.  Most of the people seem pretty cool so far, so I am looking forward to hopefully making some friends.  Last night we were trained on the FISH! philosophy and we had a beer training.  Apparently Heineken is a premium beer here and it's poured differently then other beers.  We had to learn a 7 step process to pouring and presenting the perfect glass.  Tomorrow we will be trained on some of the Front Of House operations, complaint resolution, dress code and other small things like that, and at the end a wine training.  It should be cool.  The fun thing about this job is that none of us know who will be waiting tables, who will be seating people, who will be tending bar, or who will be doing anything else.  We are all being trained to do it all, so hopefully that means they will switch it up every now and then! 

Well, its a beautiful sunny day here, we just got back from walking the dog along the coast and enjoying some of the beaches.  Not a bad gig I must say!  Now we are going to make some burritos and Sangria and settle in.  Hope everyone is having a great week!