I worked as a bartender all through college to help offset my living expenses. I got pretty good at soliciting tips. I also saw the dark side of drinking. There were many nights where I would have to break up a fight, help a waitress fend off a drunkards advances or call an ambulance for a patron who had passed out. I stop drinking for three weeks each January just to prove to myself I can do it and to lose some weight. In this picture I'm embracing my server skills in a Paris nightclub wile out on the town with Learning Company european customers.