What kind of job is a barista?

No matter before or now, the handsome literature and art of the barista making coffee at the bar and the leisurely atmosphere of the coffee shop have made many friends put the job of "barista" on the ideal list.

Compared with many technical occupations, the job of a barista is particularly easy. With the growing number of coffee shops, we can always see a few shining words for the recruitment of baristas: unlimited experience, free training, and plenty of room for promotion.

Look at the terms are very attractive whether it is right! As a result, many friends who have just entered the society / suffered setbacks in the workplace are duty-bound to target their careers as baristas and imagine that they will be able to open their own coffee shop one day. And this statement is not made up out of thin air!

Not long ago, there was a survey data showing that about 41.5% of people become baristas because they want to open a coffee shop, which means that many people want to open a coffee shop after learning some skills in the coffee shop. therefore, as long as you see "unlimited experience" and "free training", you will be duty-bound to join this profession.

In fact, many friends began to get confused and ready to run soon after they joined the barista profession. "isn't it the barista's job to make coffee?! Why is it that what we do most every day is either washing or cleaning? we haven't even made a few cups of coffee, and we still have to get angry when our wages are low! "

Yes, the barista's job is not just to make coffee, the essence of a barista is a waiter, and it doesn't change the essence of making coffee. No matter what rank barista you are, serving customers is the most basic thing, even if you are not applying for a barista, but to open a coffee shop, service must be ranked first, no service, nothing below.

Cleaning is also, is also a very important part of the coffee shop work, everyone has to do, not aimed at rookies. So since it's not aimed at rookies, why do you do the most work every day is cleaning? Because the coffee technology has not yet met the requirements for production, and cleaning is something that a rookie can do independently during working hours. Recruitment requires people to work, not to pay people to come back to learn to make coffee, even if there is training, it will not be all the time.

Cleaning these things, although repetitive and boring, is a good opportunity to exercise patience and a test of work attitude. Making coffee is like cleaning, it seems very simple, but repeating the same thing for a long time can also make people impatient.

If you want to make a cup of quality coffee, it doesn't mean that you can collapse at any time without a little patience. For example, a good milk foam / steady circle injection of water has become a hurdle for many coffee rookies. To learn to make coffee, we need to at least understand the basic information of coffee beans themselves, understand the extraction of coffee from the principle, to understand the dismissal of milk bubbles, not just to imitate, learning and understanding the basic knowledge is very important!

If you want to stand alone in the bar, you must understand the product itself, not only can make it, but also recommend it to the guests. What we need at this time is not only the service and the production of products, but also enough knowledge and understanding of coffee to recommend suitable products according to the needs of guests.

If you want to be a qualified barista, you can't just be full of blood, but you need to calm down and learn more about coffee, not just the brewing technology. This job requires both heart and brain. Baristas need to think not only about how to make a good cup of coffee, but also how to let more people know about coffee, like coffee and their future development plans.

After working for many years, many baristas begin to feel confused and anxious because they do not plan for their future before they decide to take the job. more people become baristas just because of temporary love, interest, finding an easy job, or as a transition. In fact, there are many career directions for baristas, and baristas are just a general term for practitioners in the coffee industry.

Baristas can be coffee roasters, coffee trainers, coffee guessing judges, coffee growers, bean hunters, etc., which are far away for Xiaobai? No, I feel far away because I don't have enough love and the right efforts.

All successful people are rookies at the beginning, they can not succeed without the love, seriousness and hard work of this job, love is just words, the real love is to pay and pursue. So before deciding to become a barista, I suggest thinking about my future, not only about opening a coffee shop, but also about what I can do if I don't open a coffee shop.

With regard to salary, take first-tier cities as an example, the salary of rookie / novice / ordinary barista is generally around 3000-5500, depending on the size of the coffee shop, the level of work and the applicant's work experience. Although the maximum can reach 5 words, but this premise is to have the basic knowledge of coffee and to be able to complete a cup of high-quality coffee. Baristas with zero foundation generally earn a salary of only 3000-4000 at the beginning.

How do those baristas with high wages do it? Behind these baristas, it takes a lot of effort and money, and then it takes a long time to accumulate relevant experience, which is not as easy as it seems. When we see a successful person, we have to learn from their efforts. Not just from the surface to compare. No job is as simple and easy as we think. If you have it, you will pay for it. Now that you have chosen to pay less, you can't get more than you want.

Is it really worth being a barista? There is no worth it, only whether it is appropriate or not. Who knows if this career will last a lifetime? love can make you step into the coffee industry, persistence and hard work can make you have a long-term development in the industry. Even if you feel inappropriate in the future, there is no need to regret, because this is an experience that can be cherished, even if it is not what people want in the end, it will always give play to the value of this experience in the next career.

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