Some Less-Than-Nuanced Observations From A Week In Bartending

<p>Sometime in the last 2&ndash;3 years, I got incredibly fed up with standard white-collar work, which is so often driven by politics and bullshit and ridiculous assignments. I was still doing it because the money was good, late-stage capitalism can be bad, and I liked taking fancy trips and entertaining friends and acquaintances &mdash; as well as periodically day-drinking in &ldquo;patio weather.&rdquo;</p> <p>The thing is, mostly I had been making money from writing. It was getting too confusing to have writing be a &ldquo;passion&rdquo; and an &ldquo;income source&rdquo; at the same time, and I just found every white-collar gig I had eventually shifted towards pointless or meaningless in some way. I think&nbsp;<em>most&nbsp;</em>people feel that at their jobs, but don&rsquo;t always say it out loud.</p> <h2><a href="https://tedbauer.medium.com/the-slow-demise-into-meaninglessness-of-white-collar-work-fcaf18353eef?source=post_page-----d80491723e1a--------------------------------" rel="noopener follow" target="_blank">The Slow Demise Into Meaninglessness Of White-Collar Work</a></h2> <h3><a href="https://tedbauer.medium.com/the-slow-demise-into-meaninglessness-of-white-collar-work-fcaf18353eef?source=post_page-----d80491723e1a--------------------------------" rel="noopener follow" target="_blank">We now &ldquo;communicate&rdquo; way more than we &ldquo;iterate.&rdquo;</a></h3> <p><a href="https://tedbauer.medium.com/the-slow-demise-into-meaninglessness-of-white-collar-work-fcaf18353eef?source=post_page-----d80491723e1a--------------------------------" rel="noopener follow" target="_blank">tedbauer.medium.com</a></p> <p>After I got Piped off one contract in early-to-mid-August, I wasn&rsquo;t making that much money and I needed to find new ways to bring in money and cover bills. I did go to Georgetown, which feels fancy to say, so I had to swallow my pride a little bit on bartending due to the &ldquo;upper middle class&rdquo; (a group that doesn&rsquo;t exist anymore) social stigma around the service industry, but eventually I just took a bartending job.</p> <p><a href="https://tedbauer.medium.com/some-less-than-nuanced-observations-from-a-week-in-bartending-d80491723e1a"><strong>Read More</strong></a></p>