Anyone worked in a bar while going to AA?

[bob_sapp]

I know sam from Cheers's worked a bar sober, but I was wondering if anyone else has. I recently started working p/t at a cold beer/liquor store until I am done school, just to get me out of the rut I am in. I discussed it with my sponsor and he thought it was a good idea, so I took the job.

It will be interesting seeing all the suffering people come in to buy colt 45's and cheap sherry in light of my years in AA. It's in a bad part of town, and in the days that I was still drinking and drugging I worked at one down the street from this place. Even in my state then it was sad seeing guys come in with their faces covered in gold spraypaint, the 16 year old hookers, and the myriad other sad souls who you'd see in "the hood." Anybody else worked in a bar or liquor store while sober in AA? Did your program shed a different light on things, or did it just feel like any other job?

[jimhere]

A guy from my old home group bartended for a while during his first few years sober. He Twelfth-Stepped one of the waitresses and brought her to our group. She got a woman from the group to sponsor her and is now sober over two years, still waitressing at the same place.

[CAPTAINZING2000]

MY COUSIN IS 20 SOME YEARS SOBER AND HE'S WORKING IN A PACKAGE LIQUOR STORE RIGHT NOW

oops sorry bout the caps. I'm not sure, I could work in a bar myself. I don't like being around drunk people since, I've got sober

[Ago]

I bartended for years in sobriety, two of my closest AA friends have been bartending for over 15 years and remained sober

I actually 12 stepped more people from that Bar then any other time in my sobriety, as when I got sober it was a pretty public event in a pretty small town so people started coming to me, bringing their husbands, wives, sons and daughters to me.

I am still refered to as "The Pied Piper of Sobriety" to that small northern California Beach Town, the people I 12 stepped, 12 stepped others, now they have a pretty large fellowship.

It does my ego good to go there if I am feeling down, I know I was only "the hose" not "the water" but it's still nice, all the youngsters know who I am etc.

Sobriety is an inside job

[CarolD]

I tried to ....but I was too new to sobriety
and not in any spiritual place of AA recovery.
Made me too antsy...I quickly quit.

BTW...did you read todays "As Bill Sees it"?
Not exactlly the same but......

That specific job Bob? sounds dangerous because
of being robbed. More crimes are done
in bad economic times. I sure wouldn't want
to be on the closing shift...

[Sugah]

When my husband's sponsor got sober, the only place that would give him a job was the bar where he did most of his drinking. They felt sorry for him, and seventeen years later, he's still there with no lapses in sobriety.

In another lifetime, before he began to fast-track to the bottom, he was a banker. He says bartending brings him more gratitude that banking any day.

Peace & Love,
Sugah