marketable skill

0Josh • 16th Jul 2004 • blog entries, cascades experences

For the past two days Our espresso girl is gone at freshman orientation over at CWU, during her absence I’ve been filling the position of both host & temporary barista. I did the job for about 2 hours during family camp, and I was really unsure about my performance. I was getting about 2% feedback rate..so I was positive that they were all being nice and not telling me how awful I was (as much as it is possible to screw up lattes). I had two, 4 hour shifts over the span of this Thursday & Friday and I wasn’t sure how I was going to do. It turned out to be a piece of cake. Baristas are just like sound guys, it looks hard and intimidating, but almost anyone could do it if they tried hard enough. I found that I really was able to perform well, (sometimes under pressure). It was a fun and new experience for me.