Nervous about new position....

[Jester]

Today (in about 30 minutes) I finally start training behind the bar at The Bar. Tomorrow I work my first solo shift at the upstairs bar. This is what I wanted, this is what I have been working toward, and also that hopefully, sometime in the not too distant future, I can JUST be behind the bar, and not serving tables.

And as I am every time I start something new, I am a bit nervous.

I know I can do this, I know I can handle this, I know I have all the requisite skills.

And yet I am plagued by self-doubt. Somehow I will screw this up, piss off the other bartenders, disappoint my boss, irritate the wrong customer, do something monumentally stupid and/or wrong right as Big Boss Man walks in unexpectedly (even though he is not due in town until the end of the month), etc., etc., etc.

You know, the usual shit.

Ah, the fun of starting fresh all over again!

Okay, off to enable the drunks! Later, kids!

[myswtghst]

Never having met you, but having read your tales on this forum, I think you'll do a fantastic job. I think you're friendly and outgoing enough that any minor mistakes or slipups will be easily overlooked and/or forgiven.

Most of my favorite bartenders are much like you, and much like my favorite waiters. Attentive, friendly and knowledgable about where they work. You'll do fine.

[Bagga]

The fact that you are nervous means you are far less likely to commit any of the errors you are worrying about.

I am a teacher (another type of salesperson!) and always get new-group nerves at the start of every new class. But that means I prepare better, think beforehand how I will react if any reasonably foreseeable problem might crop up, and during the classes at the start of a course I tend to be much more aware of myself, somehow,

Some people find it easy to breeze in and start as though they have been doing the job all their lives. Others act that way, but end up starring in our Cursing Out Coworkers forum.

You'll be fine.

(I hope all this reassurance works for me too - in thirty-two and a half hours I start a new class in a subject and at a level that I haven't taught for six years.)

[iradney]

You'll blow them away! You're witty, funny, you can do magic AND you know exactly what's going on behind a bar.
If they don't love you on sight, they'll love you by the end of the shift

[Becks]

Jester, you'll do better than fine!

[Geek King]

Kick ass, take names, then write them in liquer and set them alight.

Hell, if I were a drinking man, I'd choose you as my bartender. Best of luck.