"what else can I do?" The confusion from the barista.

The profession of barista is always loved and hated by people. Many people become baristas because of their dreams, but there are also many baristas who change careers because of reality.

Because the salary can not continue to maintain their ideal life, and because baristas lack opportunities for promotion, many baristas think that this job is a short-term career and there is not much room for development. Is that true? Of course not, baristas still have a lot of room for development, but only if you convince yourself to jump out of the comfort zone.

Before becoming a barista, many people fantasize that the job is as easy as a movie. People don't know how much enthusiasm, time, patience, commitment and skills it takes to be a real barista. As you can see, many successful baristas in the coffee industry have paid a lot behind it, and it is not as you can see on the surface that a flower or a cup of coffee can become a celebrity in the industry.

Most people choose this job as a barista because the process of making coffee is really charming and healing, so everyone is very persistent in showing themselves at the bar. The bar is like the boundary of the comfort zone, you have to face a lot of things you don't like when you step out. If you really like the coffee industry, want to continue to move forward in the coffee industry, but also hope to get a higher-paying position, the step out of the bar is very important.

Many baristas may think that the ceiling of baristas is probably the champion of the world-class baristas competition. Yes, such a title can make your name popular in the coffee industry, but it does not encourage the average barista to take it as a goal, because what is paid behind is not what an ordinary person can do. On the face of it, the competition seems to be a technical contest between baristas and baristas, but it is actually a contest of team, money and individual abilities.

A successful barista champion not only has enough effort and understanding of coffee, but also has the cooperation and support of the team behind him. The competition is not so much a technical contest as a project investment, and the barista standing on the stage knows not only the knowledge and technology of coffee, but also the management of the project. For example, the communication of team members, the allocation of tasks, the management of time and funds, the management of emotions, the resilience of things, and so on.

What these baristas pursue is not to show how much they know about coffee and have more insights into brewing techniques in front of the world. In pursuit of a more comprehensive and comprehensive study of the coffee industry through the competition, measure and analyze the gap between the actual situation of the industry and the expected situation, determine whether the relevant predictions and judgments are correct and analyze the reasons, so as to sum up experiences and lessons. to create conditions for future decision-making, investment and management of coffee-related projects. To improve and provide the investment benefit of the project and improve the operation process of the project can put forward practical countermeasures and measures.

For ordinary people, it is really difficult to reach the realm, even if there are enough funds, personal ability is also very important. It's not that the average barista can't do this, it's just that you can't set your goal too high at once, because when you set a goal, but it's hard to achieve, the whole process will be very excruciating. in the end, you will only gradually lose enthusiasm and get confused about coffee-related things.

No matter which career you are in, set goals for yourself after you start, and then make a reasonable plan. Baristas not only make coffee, but also share more interesting coffee culture, correct coffee knowledge and coffee brewing principles to more people, encouraging people to know and understand coffee.

When you have some understanding of coffee knowledge, coffee technology, research, and can lead others to learn the principles and explore the secrets, you can consider the career of coffee trainer, rather than standing in the bar to make coffee. Trainers not only let more people have a basic / deeper understanding of coffee, but also improve their communication and management skills.

"is it okay to be a baker?" Of course you can! As long as you have an in-depth understanding of the coffee bean itself, understand the influence of altitude, soil, climate and other factors on the structure and flavor performance of coffee beans, understand the impact of every temperature, every time period, and each roaster on the performance of coffee beans, and be willing to patiently listen to the feedback of baristas (brewers) and solve them together, you can be a great roaster.

Is it difficult to bake coffee beans? It's not difficult, just like cooking. Bakers, like chefs, always have a transition period and have to start with the basics. To cook a dish, it is easy; to make a dish delicious, you must have a good understanding of everything from ingredients to skills in order to give full play to it at the right temperature and at the right time.

What about opening a store? This seems to be a natural thing in the career of baristas, but it puts many baristas into unlimited entanglement. One is money, and the other is that besides making coffee, he doesn't know how to manage a coffee shop.

If we want to open a coffee shop, then after we start working as a barista, we should constantly improve our professionalism, learn and understand more service skills, learn product research and development, learn to calculate management costs and costs, learn activity planning, learn brand promotion and learn business negotiation.

Don't find it troublesome. I believe most people want to make money when they open a coffee shop, at least without losing money. Many people fail to open a coffee shop, many of which are due to the failure to plan every step and set a clear goal for themselves in the early stage of opening the shop, resulting in an imbalance between expenditure and income.

No matter what you do, you should first build up your professionalism, and plan your future before you start the job, instead of taking it one step at a time. Baristas are not without prospects, and baristas are not unprofitable. If you can put down the "beautiful" filter for baristas and understand the development of the whole industry in a down-to-earth manner, I believe everyone can always find a suitable position.

A barista can be a technician, an educator or a businessman.

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