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By China at 3:45 PM

This summer I have been working in a sports bar here in town. So far it has been really slow since everyone has left town to go on vacation. The only kids left around the college are students like me who are either broke, or getting closer to it the more time they spend here. I am working both as a bartender for the extra cash in tips and as a cook because I really like the work. It is a lot of fun when it's really busy because I don't have much time to do anything but think about work. This is when shifts fly by and I get to do the things that I really want to do like go for long bike rides around town. This is especially true when I am working back in the kitchen because we just turn the radio on and then everything else just sort of disappears from our world's. When I am out with the crowd it is a little different story because I am up there in front of a screaming crowd of people who all needs drinks, and the witnesses all fly past asking for pitchers while I just have to try to stay as calm as possible. If I don't stay calm then I get worse and worse at my job as a night goes on. I learned that lesson from experience. One of the cool perks about working at the bar through the summer, is the discounts they give to these employees come the fall. When classes start back up again and some of us need to cut back on hours the managers give some incentives to those who worked the summer, to keep us working for them all year. Being a sports bar, they figure that there is no better incentive than tickets. The owner has lots of friends in the sports teams around the state, both college and professional. So he can get cheap or free sports tickets for many games during the year. He himself is very busy so he just gives the tickets away as they come to him. I heard about this before I started working, I have my eyes on his NFL tickets in the fall.