Casino cocktail servers (Reno: health insurance, unemployment, college)

[brandey023]

could anyone please tell me how the casino industry is in Reno for cocktail servers? do u start on grave yard or extra board? what is the average hourly rate there not including tips?..

[Highnlite]

A. why not improve your education to the point that you do not need to make a living being eyecandy for drunks?

It is not a job that gives one an appreciation for humans, and it beats up your feet, forces you to breath tobacco filled air, and is on the whole, not a pretty way to make a living.

[PAS36BH]

Your best bet is to call a casino to find out.........there is nothing wrong being a cocktail waitress it's a legal job that can be a lot of social fun. With the way our unemployment level is College is not going to do much to better your chances. There are people with Masters degrees working as porters and fast food servers.........

If Cocktail waitressing is your desire..FOLLOW IT and don't let the negative people put you down!!!

[Highnlite]

Some folks are happy at the bottom of the pile, some aren't, eh.

I suggest you wander down to the Plantation or the Bonanza some night, see what cocktail waitress are like, 20-30 years into the job.

[jaada]

why do you think your better than a cocktail waitress? they make tons of money and so what if they are eye candy nothing wrong with looking good and getting paid for it.

[PAS36BH]

Someone is jealous that he is not a woman and be a cocktail waitress........well dear......how about shaving those hairy gams and placing some chicken cutlets in that victoria secrets very sexxxy lift bra and take some hormones............loads of she males are COCKtail 'no pun intended' waitress's and are doing very welllllllllll. Roflmao

[Highnlite]

You kids are pretty funny, not logical, but funny.

[PAS36BH]

Long as you have a job that is legal ...........that is logical .........putting someone down for the type of job they do or wish to apply for that is legal is down right disrespectful AND BIAS.

[Highnlite]

What? are you 13? Do you consider a job serving cocktails to cigarette smoking gamblers in a skimpy outfit to be equal with an RN, or a NeuroSurgeon or a civil engineer? Or a Commercial River Guide, or a Ski Patroller at Squaw Valley?

Why would someone take a perfectly good brain and not use it?

You have a fairly short life here on earth, you best hit the ground running, do the hard stuff, very few parents would consider a daughter working as a cocktail waitress to be achieving much.

When thinking of work, one should think of what one loves and loves to do, then try to work that. You should have a passion, something you dream of, work toward that. If all you want to do is just exist, well, then it matters not what you do. For myself, I would shoot myself before I merely existed.

But, maybe I have run into the Paris Hilton, Lindsay Lohan generation, never a thought for tomorrow, never a thought for what you could bequeath the world.

[brandey023]

Thank all of you for the total negativity!!! I did not ask for your opinions or parental advice! I do have a college education but instead i have been cocktailing for the last 5 years because it is the best money i have ever made in my life!! When any of you make $6-$7,000 a month then you can voice your opinion about career b.s. For whoever made the comment about what my mother thinks, just to let you know, that my mother is proud but jealous in a way because i make better money then her hourly not including tips and i have free health insurance at a casino in vegas that i have been at for less than a year.

I asked a simple question: " do the casinos in reno start their cocktail servers on graveyard shift or on extra board, and what is the average hourly pay?"
it's really not that hard to answer if you know anything about the service industry there... I am only asking because my husband got offered a job there making good money but i do not want to depend on the money that he makes to pay my bills..