{"id":604,"date":"2008-10-11T23:00:15","date_gmt":"2008-10-11T21:00:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.basbasbas.com\/blog\/?p=604"},"modified":"2008-10-11T23:03:22","modified_gmt":"2008-10-11T21:03:22","slug":"ive-got-a-job","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.basbasbas.com\/blog\/2008\/10\/11\/ive-got-a-job\/","title":{"rendered":"I’ve Got A Job"},"content":{"rendered":"

I do, and that’s the reason why I haven’t been blogging so much (and dropping, for the EC readers). It’s a waiter job and on Friday, Saturday and Sunday I make 12 hour days. Never did that before and it’s really<\/em>\u00a0tough since you’re standing all the time and since it’s a touristy restaurant it gets extremely busy, guaranteed! Here are some (clickable) pictures of my work:<\/p>\n

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The job’s quite fun. I get to speak many different languages. Today I’ve spoken Turkish, English, French, German, Dutch, and a little Bulgarian! \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n

The pay’s not so great though. It’s 50-80 lira per day (about 30 euros) for 12 hours of work. You can do the math and calculate my hourly wage. It’s very hard work and I don’t think most of the visitors realize how hard the staff actually works for what kind of money. I wouldn’t expect it at least. Now that I know, I’ll be a little bit more considerate when tipping in touristy places. Also, some of the visitors thinks that “service costs” means that the tip’s included. Wrong. I don’t get an hourly wage, I get a “commission”, which comes from the service costs (10% of the total check). So next time you see “service” on your bill, TIP!<\/p>\n

It’s great to be working in a bar\/restaurant again and it’s a nice experience for now. Hard work, but it makes you sleep well at night… and wake up with an aching body the next day. \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n

Off to bed. Gotta get up early tomorrow for another 12 hour day.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I do, and that’s the reason why I haven’t been blogging so much (and dropping, for the EC readers). It’s a waiter job and on Friday, Saturday and Sunday I make 12 hour days. Never did that before and it’s really\u00a0tough since you’re standing all the time and since it’s a touristy restaurant it gets […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,7,12,22],"tags":[118,331,150,14,593,362,594,592,1033],"class_list":["post-604","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art","category-life","category-photography","category-work","tag-experience","tag-istanbul","tag-job","tag-pictures","tag-restaurant","tag-turkey","tag-waiter","tag-waiter-job","tag-work"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.basbasbas.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/604","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.basbasbas.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.basbasbas.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.basbasbas.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.basbasbas.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=604"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.basbasbas.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/604\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":610,"href":"https:\/\/www.basbasbas.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/604\/revisions\/610"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.basbasbas.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=604"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.basbasbas.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=604"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.basbasbas.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=604"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}