How to start working as a bartender? Is Bartending school worth it?
So I've been seriously looking into working as a bartender lately. I'm an actor, and finding a job as an actor that will fit next to my auditions is very difficult. Anyway, bartending seems like my best bet. The only thing is that I'm a 21 year old girl, with zero experience in bartending. So, I decided I'd just enroll myself into a bartending school, but I'm getting mixed reviews about it. Also, I keep hearing I need to work my way up to being a bartender (through first working as a bus boy, or waitress) but then I hear stories about people who start work behind a bar a week after going to bartending school. Most of these cases are coming from the school's testimonials might I add.
Anyway, I just want to know what is the best way to get into bartending. It's a little under $400 to go to bartending school, so it's not that big of an investment, and I'm sure I'll learn a lot from it. I'm just wondering... where do I go from there? And what are the chances of my finding a job stat?