You might want to reconsider a job where you have to deal with the public. Having a sense of humor is essential to surviving that. Maybe you can get an IT consulting gig or something.

If you are just looking to make some extra $$$ you might think about Bartending..

I was believing that line/post until I studied your Avatar for several minutes.

Gawd, ain't that the truth! As much as I hate everyone, I can still put on a good face and make the angriest customers happy and loyal for life. But once in a while, in a restaurant especially, you get some real jerk customers - the kind of folks who look for some reason to demand the check be comp'ed, abuse the server, want freebies, seconds, send it back or are just plain difficult. Plenty of times I've seen the best, most experienced servers have to have a manager come over and deal with a situation. That's what managers do. You handle the jerks who are too bad for the servers to handle. It takes a special kind of person for that. I don't think I ever had one who wasn't a chain smoker.

Lighten up, Dennis....the only comment made in jest was lendaddy. But there is some truth in his humor. Thus far I've only seen you talk about sales in RE/IT and question the salary at Pizza Hut . Do you have ANY experience in food service industry? Ever waited tables or worked as a dishwasher? Cooked at a restaurant? Ever manged younger, low wage employees? Better learn because when a minimum wage employee busboy/dishwasher doesn't show up for a busy saturday night shift and doesn't bother to call, you'll have to step in. There's a lot more to it at the management level than working a cash register. Without some prior FS experience, even if it was a HS job at a fast food place, I don't think you'll be offered a mid-management level job right off the bat.

My wife runs a restaurant/pub. Its a lot more complicated than you might think at the management/owner level.

And Byron is right...in many restauramts, bartenders can make more than the asst managers. But do you have what it takes to be a professional mixologist. I know of one who made $70K+ year before last in a small pub with an elite clientele in the south east.. But you have to have the personality and skill to do that

That being said, an asst mgr trainess probably starts at $24-30K...GM probably is in the $50-65K range depending on locaction. Hours are brutal...you might have to come in the a.m. to open, oversee lunch crowd, take an afternoon break and come back at night to close. After the last customer is gone there typically is 1-2 hours of work before you go home. Figure 60+ hours per week, 5-6 days per week.e

Worked in full service restaurants for 20 years. Busboy to general manager of a chain of 5 units. I have a sense of humor, but I also can be a little "brutal" :)

After sleeping on this I have decided I am not going to work nights and weekends for what they are willing to pay. Thanks for all the input. Gonna find something in sales.