Hello! I was accepted for dentistry, and as you know, there is no part-time, and accordingly ours must support me. But they don't have god knows how much money and I want to make more money in the summer to help them. The problem is that without the education I will find it difficult to earn them, and I have heard from some people that the bartenders at the sea in the summer earned a lot of tips (about 200 per night), which is a lot. But I'm worried about how they will give you so much money, is there a trick, is it really so. I am also particularly concerned about human trafficking, especially for a 19-year-old girl like me. I am also interested in whether you have found a job because in most cases the conditions are bad, and therefore no one applies for them. So my questions are: How did they find their job? How much money did you make? Is it dangerous? I ask anyone who has worked it to share, or such, who are familiar with the topic. Thanks in advance!
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And by the way, if you haven't seen, it is the low-skilled work that is paid higher, and doctors, engineers, and others with education throw them at 600 .
jobs en, the employment offices are also recruiting people for the season The tips are made by the waiters for real. The tip is divided between them and the bartender. The conditions at sea are bad, choose your offers carefully, the shifts are as serious as hours. Employment contract, insurance, real pay, working hours you have to pay attention to this.
Staff who are less qualified are paid more. Fact. Whether it is the sea or not, it is still so. For the sea there are a lot of ads on job sites, just search. There are tricks, of course. For example, they tell you one working time, then it turns out that you drive shifts over 12-14 hours. Where I was at sea, that's how it worked, extraordinary. It depends on what position, but it is common practice to find yourself with other working hours. Either there are not enough staff, or they leave in the middle of the season. And that's why the others tighten their belts. Weekends - they can tell you that there is, but it turns out that if you get along with the other colleague, or with a lot of requests. Not everywhere, but very often. I rarely rested, there are no 4-5 days for these months. Accommodation - try to be offered by the company itself, ie not to look for accommodation, or to say that they will cover your expenses. Just to be insured by them, and not to go around the city looking for it, because it will not only be you, but also other working, vacationing people. So look for a company that will provide you with accommodation. It is most often in rooms, mostly cheap, 2-3 in a room. The conditions - a lot depends. I was in a room with 2 other girls, there was a small refrigerator, air conditioning and TV. Internet - weak, but there was. It wasn't perfect, but it was. Bathroom and toilet together. You have to be ready to live with all kinds of people, and not be conflicted. Meals - to be included by the company, if possible. Do 2 meals per shift, but have it. If you give yourself half your salary for food, you won't have much left. It depends on where you are at sea, but it is expensive to eat out, and the prices in the shops can bring you down. If you have food provided, it will not be like home. It will often be left by tourists, or from the day before. So it will not be perfect, but do not starve. If you hang out with someone in the kitchen, you can get better food or at least use an appliance to prepare something. Load - a lot depends on the position. I was in a hotel at the front desk, and it was tiring. It depends on where you want to be as a bartender, disco, hotel, bar, restaurant. Whether it is a small or large object. But it's definitely more stressful. I can't say about tips, because it depends on where you will work. There are Bulgarians who give, there are also skrundzhi. It is the same with foreigners. A lot depends on how you serve them, whether you smile, whether you are beautiful. Money was not much, but I managed to save. It also depends on how you spend and whether you will party often. You can't do without it, but still not to waste everything for a few days. Waiters, bartenders, etc. are well paid at sea, as long as the employer is correct and gives exactly that money. They gave me as much as we had agreed. Ads - I found an ad on the most common site. Mass interviews are over the phone, and if you wish, you can see each other on Viber. I don't know why there are some employers who want you to walk on their feet, for example 200-300 km, and more, just to see each other live, given that there is Viber, Skype and Facebook. However, you can't expect a candidate to spend money on a two-way bus, to spend a whole day traveling, just to see each other if you don't like the conditions or they don't approve. But some stubbornly do not germinate the idea of modern technology and cameras, and want you to come to their feet, given that you may be on the other side of the country, or decide not to start there at all. I have crossed such interviews because it is money, a lost day. Given that we are in the 21st century, to make me travel 300 km, to see if they won't take me, or I don't approve of them, is stupid. So, the search will be done mainly by phone. Fortunately, there are smart people who offer both Skype and Viber interviews. Danger - depends on where you work. I was in a closed complex and it was quiet, without drug addicts, drunks and so on. I was accommodated in a flat in a nearby town, and it was quiet. Nightlife has it, but a lot depends on who you make friends with and where you go. There are always risks, but if your head is on your shoulders, there are no dangers. From the colleagues you will have people who will be disgusting to you, but there will also be very decent ones. You choose who to hang out with and where to go. There are a lot of downloaders, but they are everywhere. Just keep one thing in mind. I wish I had helped you at least a little. Success!
The waitresses certainly take more tips.
I love the way the young generation thinks. The first thought is always about money, before you even think that this money is given for something. How do you imagine, boy, to be hired as a bartender at the sea, given that you have no experience ???
To 6 They take all because there is no staff. If, where I worked, there were maids aged 17-18, waitresses aged 16, why not take the girl? There is a hunger for staff, and they take all kinds.
From the author: I forgot to say that I am mainly interested in a bartender in a disco.
2 years ago I was in Sofia and worked in Student City as a waitress. They leave a lot of tips, considering that it was a period when there were almost no students there. I don't know about the bartender, but he seems to be poorer in terms of tips. But everything is learned, don't worry. I'm generally very weak and I could barely wear the backgammon and I was a little bad at math, but when you take a few shifts and learn things, you'll get used to it.
There are few restaurants by the sea where such amounts are possible (as%). They can go out to a "wet bar" (one where a lot of alcohol is spilled, a lot of cocktails are made and customers sit en masse and pay at the bar). If you are looking for such a scheme, rich seasonal experience from similar establishments known in the industry and an attractive vision will only help you, not to mention that they are 90% mandatory. Before you start, you need arranged accommodation - employers rarely provide, and prices are impossible for one person. 200 levs is the ceiling, people enjoy 100 at a time - this in the height of the season with a strong shift and a strong area. With a student brigade, money seems to be safer, but you seem to be looking for a party. Not bad, but good luck!
I forgot to add: we haven't shared tips with other waiters or bartenders, everything you earn is for you. But it depends on the restaurant and how they proceed there, but be sure to ask about the tips if they are for you.
And what if there is no gram of experience. It must be very complicated to make coffee and cocktails. Besides, you have to start somewhere. And what do you suggest number 6 to work hangar? Money drives the world and when employers realize that their most valuable resource is people and pay normal wages, then they will find quality people!
"But I'm worried about how they'll give you so much money, is there a trick," - only the trick in the mousetrap is free, but you know how the life of a mouse ends !? Don't become a mouse, find a cheaper but safe job. He who boils in the whirlpools of life can only expect trouble!
Up to 12 Man, do not belittle the profession of bartender. There are special schools, courses, competitions and contests. Being a bartender is not like mixing a coffee or a cocktail from a fictional menu in a neighborhood pub. Expand your worldview.
To 6 Of course, money is important! Who will get a job without knowing what they will get as a reward, and whether overtime will be paid? For you, and for others of the older generation, money may not matter, but for the modern worker, it is. I don't know if anyone wants to work, just like that, without caring what they will get in terms of money and conditions. You sell your work, and it's normal to know what. The girl wants to save, and is unlikely to be satisfied with the minimum wage, or a little above it. Yes, she may not have experience, but people will teach her the basics. This is required for seasonal work, to know the basics. Then he can eventually take courses, but he will have to know the basics. They will show her how to learn something on the go. Be fluent in languages too, mostly English spoken and a little Russian. At sea they take 17-18 year olds in all sorts of positions, so why not take her, even if she has no experience? One always starts from somewhere. He will also learn something along with his colleagues. I found it funny from your opinion. Aren't you an employer?
14 - they are graduates of special schools and have been to competitions and contests, do you think that they would push themselves right on our sea to waste their potential? Well very clear that No. These fly directly to a DEVELOPED European country. Here bg-tata have to be satisfied with girls and boys like the author, if they want to be in business, and if not - to work alone or best to start their own work somewhere for someone;) Author, you better orient yourself to go on a brigade to the United States, if you ask me.
Number 6, given that already at sea readable staff is difficult to stay and the owners are forced to decide whether to hire gypsies or to import Bessarabian Bulgarians and workers from Ukraine, I think the author has a pretty good chance to take it. There is a great hunger for seasonal workers. Graduates in tourism or with qualifications for chefs, bartenders and waiters have long been oriented towards Western Europe and I honestly understand them given the correctness of most employers on the Black Sea coast and the meager pay they offer for the same work. By the way, author, you can also go on a student program for the summer - the United States is far away, and farms in the UK are hard work, but Germany or the Scandinavian countries are quite ok for something like that, they are hungry for tourism professionals, and it will certainly be a more interesting experience for you than the sea and you will practice your language in addition to making money. Cruise ship positions for several months are also quite well paid.
You can make money at sea or you can't make money, but everyone goes not so much for the money as for the party. True, they break your ass from work, but the experience is worth it. Unfortunately or not, I am not one of those people who has been and can give an example from personal experience, but I pass on the words to many people. Something you need to know, first the bartenders, if you don't have seats at the bar, you won't see tips. Second, be ready for a lot of drunken foreigners and not only, to throw words at you and treat you like a second-hand person, be ready for 12-16 hour shifts, be ready for a lot of alcohol and sleepless nights. Good luck
1. Low-skilled labor in Western countries Bulgaria is paid more. 2. EXPERIENCE is required for a cocktail bartender. A more responsible person, often an elderly man, is needed to pour brandy into restaurants. For a "bartender" in coffee is inexperienced if the coffee is small. 3. Tips are taken by the waiters. I don't see how you will take BGN 200 a day without having access to money. For this purpose, someone here mentioned a wet bar, but again ... it takes experience. 4. The application is ALWAYS in place. And it's not because they're not with you with the new technology. Even their businesses depended on technology long before you were born. The Skype interview has nothing to do with it. I have personally conducted interviews and when you see the person live you understand that he looks and behaves in a completely different way. If someone takes you from Skype, then they will use you for a while and lie to the little ones like you. He spins and changes the naive all season without paying them. There are some. ----------- Super revolving bars with a touch of money are not so many. Many-seasonal and experienced people apply for them. You are inexperienced, 19 and you want to compete with them .... Someone bragged to you and you dreamed. You must even be spending money in your head. You young people are so jammed with dreams that you don't do work for 5 stotinki. Anyway, I wish you success! There are also doors. Go to the sun and apply to Viking. There they take someone like you. I don't know what money you will take, but alcohol is spilled from a hose, there is no philosophy. You will touch money and gain experience. That you will improve your English as well ... As for the danger, as long as you are paranorized. I lived in China, where the organ mafia is running crazy because people there don't have passports. Here is Europe and we live in the 21st century, it has nothing in common. Stop watching the yellow press with paranoid clichés. Basis only from the charming Batkovs, who can make you a prostitute.
20 Applying on the spot is justified when it comes to a good position, an international company, a lot of money. But for a waitress, and seasonally, that's enough! How many courses does a person from his hometown to the sea have to do in order to apply for a position that will eventually take 3-4 months? I say possibly because many leave, whether because of shoddy conditions or low wages. In many places there are ads in restaurants, shops, hotels, and in the job sites the companies run their ads until the end of the season. So, I don't know how many times a person has to spend, for example, 40-50 per trip to spend and apply for a temporary position, which is not very certain that he will take until the end of the season. Especially if it depends on your parents' money, and you will hardly want to make frequent trips to and from the sea. Skype and Viber interviews are a facilitation, and are normal interviews. Save time and travel. They are made all over the world, and for much higher positions than a bartender at sea. Only here are they strange. For example, I'm applying to a 5-star hotel, and they want me to come to their feet for an interview, right with the start documents. It's as if they're catching air. You see the man again on Skype. I was interviewed by the Human Resources of the respective company, the managers, and everything was normal. Only some stumble that it is necessary live, because it could not be otherwise. You ask them why, they do not give an adequate answer. Invite people from the region live, but if I'm 300 km away, would it be nice to be there this time for a 15-minute interview, and for a temporary position? Well, no, if it was for something permanent, and a good offer, then-yes. All kinds of employees - 17-18, Poles, Russians, Ukrainians. Enough with this experience, for an elite restaurant - yes, but on a large scale they are just starting work. Where I was, they were literally students in a program, 16-17, and they broke off from work. Yes, he bored them sometimes, but they also tried hard. There is a hunger for staff, and not from this year, but from the bay. Only someone who has worked recently knows how quickly staff changes because they find somewhere better, or they don't like the conditions. Would you like to live in a basement, literally in a basement, without windows, just a lamp? In some unbearable moisture and mold? Don't you know day or night? I left because these are not human conditions, the clothes would still be damp and smell bad. But the boss hid this in interviews, we were supposed to be in rooms. The boss was known to our people, he was serious. The other place I was was at least normal in terms of accommodation. Were the young capricious? !! We just have requirements, and we don't want to be treated like animals. That is why we are fleeing from this side.