What if I'm confused about being a barista? How to adjust your mindset when working in a coffee shop?

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Before becoming a barista: wow! I love coffee! I like making coffee so much! I want to be a barista!

After becoming a barista: (open your eyes and think that you have to start making coffee and washing cups when you go to work. (Oh, I'm getting ready for work again. I'm so tired!

I believe that most baristas have felt this sense of powerlessness at some point. When you open the social platform every day, you can see that many baristas are confused about their work. Most of the reasons are: frustration with the progress of learning coffee knowledge, boredom about work, fatigue about career, self-doubt, and lack of goals. In the face of such a situation, how should baristas adjust?

How to adjust when you feel depressed when learning new knowledge?

Nowadays, there are more and more coffee training courses, and many partners who want to enter the coffee industry will first take the relevant courses and then apply for a job as a barista. During the class, we can always absorb a lot of coffee knowledge that we would not have thought of before, and there are also a lot of very interesting practical courses. But when the course was finished, everything began to slow down, and I didn't seem to learn anything new after leaving the training course.

Don't lose your heart! This is normal ~ in the training class, it is actually the time when we are most enthusiastic and energetic. At this time, no matter the rich knowledge of the course or the interesting practical content, we can satisfy our curiosity and learn all the content quickly. But after the energy burst, it will begin to level off, and the new knowledge learned at this time is an advanced version of everything the course has learned, so it takes more time to study and learn.

The training course opens a lot of doors of knowledge for you. What we need to do after the course is to walk into each door and enrich the space inside. This process takes a long time, but it will be more impressive and professional. Knowledge is not to be learned quickly, but to be able to apply it.

How do baristas adjust when they are bored?

To be honest, boredom is an experience that almost every barista has. Making drinks on the menu repeatedly every day and washing cups every day does make people feel that work is always so insipid. At this time, all we have to do is to challenge ourselves!

Perhaps many baristas do not like to hear criticism from others or comment on their own actions, but this will lose the opportunity to challenge themselves and a lot of room for progress. Over the years, code clerks like to share new research with friends / other baristas around them (that is, share drinks, listen to different comments and make changes), nothing else, just to make each cup of coffee show its own unique side.

We can't try and make mistakes with the drinks paid by the guests, so the daily products must be produced in the most secure way. But in their spare time, to learn more about the principles behind coffee extraction and make different attempts, through sharing, to constantly improve their professionalism ~ everyone's evaluation is the help of the growth of baristas.

How do baristas adjust when they feel tired?

The barista feels tired and may be tired of monotonous work. Some baristas begin to lose motivation to their daily life after working for a period of time, and it has become a chore to go to work every day to make coffee and serve guests. When you have this sense of fatigue, all you have to do is to get rid of this depressed state!

We cannot fail to work, nor can we evade our responsibilities at work, but we can give ourselves a new perspective! Not afraid to make mistakes, just afraid not to do, we can go to some forums, groups, and coffee professionals everywhere to discuss views, understand the latest coffee trend ~ and then suddenly discover a lot of new worlds!

The tiredness here is closely related to the boredom mentioned above, because you don't learn more new things and don't challenge yourself with new projects or setting new goals. So when we feel tired, we have to ask ourselves, what should we do next? Continue to be in the comfort zone, or ask yourself new questions, and then learn more about things other than your current job.

When baristas doubt themselves, how to adjust?

Both new baristas and experienced baristas feel self-doubt from time to time. There is no quick solution to this problem, and the important thing is not to let yourself lack confidence, hinder the way forward, and prevent yourself from becoming a more professional barista.

Things don't always work out as you want. sometimes latte art lacks symmetry and needs to be practiced, and sometimes it may extract time / coffee taste to adjust. These "rollover" can easily make baristas doubt themselves.

In the face of such a situation, we need to regard it as a good thing. It is precisely because of the "rollover" that it brings challenges to ourselves and gives us room for improvement. If there's something you're struggling with, face it. Practice, practice, practice!

Does the goal matter? important!

When working as a barista, many friends do not set a clear goal for themselves, and they have the above problems because they do not have a goal / goal is too big. There may be many baristas whose goal is to play games and gain fame, but such a goal is actually not easy for an ordinary person, because it takes a lot of cost and knows how to manage the team.

Playing a game is like a business, which requires not only capital, but also investment and operation. If you set your goal too high at the beginning, the process will be very excruciating. in the end, you will only gradually lose enthusiasm for coffee-related things and get confused.

Therefore, we must act according to our ability to give our goals, and at the same time, we must have room to challenge ourselves.

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