Many things when showed on tv or in movies are not realistic to life and a good example of this are many hospitality jobs and careers. They tend to only show the rosey side of things to make the viewer think it is glamorous and rewarding and not gruelling and stressful like their jobs may really be on certain days.

An excellent example of a false media portrayal of job function is a bartender.  A bartender is a skilled employee who mixes drinks at a bar but there are just as many other important employees who also make up the big picture in a business. Their interactions with the public depend on what type of establishment they work in.

If a bartender is working in a high end or fancy type of restaurant, he/she may have little or no contact with the customers.  It would be the wait staff that would be interacting with them. In a smaller, more casual bar setting, the bartender could be constantly interacting with the customer.  Depending on where they are working, whether it be a restaurant or a dance club, determines how much they deal with the customer.  Bartenders make great tips if they are dealing with the public and give great customer service just like any other employee that works in the service industry.

The way media portrays a bartender makes them a type of person who can give legal, religious and psychiatric advice to their customers.  If this were really true they wouldn’t be tending bar, they’d be in a different profession. There are courses to enrol in to learn how to be a bartender to help them find a job in that field. It can be fun but can also be a very busy job that requires excellent customer service skills.  Men and women both make great bartenders.

It amazing what we see in the media.  Wow a bartender is as fantatic as Superman..not quite.  What we watch and read has such an enormous effect on the public and what they believe in. People in the entertainment business know how to entice us into watching something by making making it look glamorous.