Besides Bartending and Massage Therapy, I’ve also worked in the Event Industry, Film Industry, and for a brief and eye-opening time as a Private Investigator for New York States Insurance Fund, investigating worker’s comp cases. But even across a diaspora of industries, with specific intricacies of focus, one tends to glean a general skill-set applicable to unrelated tasks and jobs. So how is my “multi-tool” useful for this position? Bartending is usually three things at once: interacting, finances, and making the thing you just interacted about and sold. Also keeping track of who’s next when there are three rows of people in front of you with a sliding scale of manners. Keeping track of what you are running out of because now there are four rows of people in front of you and the register is stuck. And on. In short, dealing gracefully and efficiently under pressure, limited resources, with large groups of wanting people, and delivering what you agreed upon in a timely manner. Talking to thousands of people a year does hone communication skills; working in a high volume environments teaches the efficacy of brevity. Massage Therapy, on the other hand, cultivates the need for individual care and attention, presence, with a mindset of remediation of the pain and the causative factor. Massage assess blockages, trigger points, areas of dysfunction; so I seek to take that body map and apply it to the streets and sewers. In regards to Commissions of interest (and vacant seats available as of today), I have interest in Ethics, Fair Housing, Fair Rent, and/or Water Quality.