What does a barista do? Is it suitable to change careers to be a barista? what's the salary?

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I don't know since when, more and more friends are tired of working in the office every day, facing the endless daily newspaper, weekly report, monthly report, ppt meeting. People are very yearning for manual labor. Once, when a guest was chatting with a code clerk, he suddenly looked blankly at the sunshine outside, and then sighed, "you guys are so happy to be baristas. I want to be carefree every day like you, and I don't have to look at computers and meetings. I don't have to see the sun in the morning and the sky at night."

It stabbed me in the heart. But when this guest is so powerless, if I answer at this time, "the gap between you and me is that I can see the sun, because the shop is often full and I sit outside." the guest could not understand what I was talking about.

So I chose silence. Before he left the shop, he replied: no job is carefree. If it is a stable job, adjust your status and keep going.

The biggest illusion about this job as a barista is that it is "very comfortable" and the salary is not bad. As for the barista's work, it only stays in the aesthetic movies: making coffee every day and chatting with the guests. Watching the guests come and go, spend the day in comfort and serenity.

For this reason, whenever people feel hard, the first thing that comes to mind is the work of baristas. Although we know that today's baristas are more manual work and all-round players, they still have no rest in their yearning for this profession.

Is barista just a job that can be done by washing cups, doing hygiene, learning coffee knowledge, and learning coffee technology? During my years as a code clerk, the biggest impression is the job as a barista, and the biggest challenge is that you never know what kind of customers you will face in a day and how you can make them satisfied with this consumption.

Not all the guests in the coffee shop are young artists. Here can be roughly divided into three categories: ordinary consumers who drink coffee quietly after ordering, belonging to angels; coffee lovers who find fault and diss things with little knowledge for half a day, but as long as you have excellent coffee knowledge for dialogue, you can become the "boss" of these people; special people with strong self-culture, egotistical, you can only be helpless.

Sometimes, with the knowledge you have learned from reading books and the skills you have worked hard to practice, you will find that everything is useless in front of different customers. Because there are many problems that you have never thought of that cannot be solved simply through professional knowledge and technology, and there is not much time for you to think about how to make the best solution. At this point, it has challenged a person's emergency response ability and communication skills. When chatting, many guys who have changed careers in the coffee industry will talk about their temper and stress after making coffee / opening a coffee shop. Because it is completely different from what I imagined at that time, it is very hard to work. Yes, if at first you just yearn for the life of making coffee and lattes, and look forward to a safe day, then reality can deal a heavy blow to you. Why? Because the best selling tea in the coffee shop is lemon tea. (this is a stalk, but also a compromise to the society of many coffee shops.) A partner in a coffee shop said that when a guest learned that there was no lemon tea in the shop, he left behind what coffee shop he opened without lemon tea and left. It's so powerless. No matter what kind of job you want to change, I hope you can calm down and figure out what you want before making a decision, and at the same time carefully understand the true state of a job and your true state. If there are more opportunities for development in your current job, or when you can get a better salary, please don't give up because of temporary fatigue. When you change careers, you will find that when you want to go back, it is no longer the same treatment, and there are no more opportunities for development.

At present, many baristas, especially Xiaobai baristas, have no purpose to do a job. If there is no purpose when you really switch to this job, or if you want to be more relaxed and have a lot of coffee every day, you really need to think twice, think twice, or think twice. All the standing still will not allow yourself to make any progress, and a lot of precious time will be wasted. Every job has its own hidden secrets, and no job is really comfortable. There is still a long way to go. If you really want to become a practitioner in the coffee industry, baristas will not be the only option, and opening a coffee shop is not the ultimate way out for baristas. We can't lose 996, Hiti 007! The world of coffee is very interesting, and there are still many things for everyone to discover and develop in the coffee industry. If you really like it, I hope you can stick to it and make decisions you don't regret ~ Photo Source: Internet