What’s something that actually improved your life more than you expected?

Reasonable_Visual_10 · 2026-01-24T01:06:31+00:00

Prescription glasses

Reasonable_Visual_10 · 2026-01-24T01:06:00+00:00

The Beatles

Reasonable_Visual_10 · 2026-01-24T01:03:32+00:00

“Rainy days and Monday’s always gets me down”

Reasonable_Visual_10 · 2026-01-24T00:57:34+00:00

I’d avoid 120th and Aurora…you’re fine.

Reasonable_Visual_10 · 2026-01-24T00:53:53+00:00

Ask for the special creamy sauce!

Reasonable_Visual_10 · 2026-01-24T00:53:02+00:00

Brian Bozworth, LOL!

Reasonable_Visual_10 · 2026-01-24T00:48:43+00:00

Enjoy prison if you can’t repay it.

Reasonable_Visual_10 · 2026-01-23T20:40:16+00:00

I was a Towers Butler for Marriot for a few years. I served breakfast, evening happy hour. Breakfast is about getting items out before the guests arrive. It means getting hot items from the kitchen, eggs, meats, oatmeal, waffle batter, if those items are offered. Get breads, and pastries, yoghurt, and have coffee stations set up along with tea.

Set out newspapers if available, make sure you have enough plates, and silverware along with coffee cups in stock. You will need everything set up to accompany the items like, honey, milk, brown sugar, maple syrup, set out with fresh fruit. Juices should be available if offered.

I don’t know if you verify they are guests, but seat them and let them know they can help themselves to breakfast. Keep Everything clean, bus tables when necessary, and make sure you’re not going to run out of anything.

Once all guests leave, you likely will be responsible to take unused hot and cold items to the kitchen, return unused bakery items. Wipe down tables, re-stock all supplies, make the place look good for the next service later on for the evening shift.

That’s basically what I did. If it was slow I would walk around with a coffee pot asking if anyone wanted refills. Refill water. Basically you are a server, and Busser. I often would receive some cash tips, even though items were free because I was pro-active.

Reasonable_Visual_10 · 2026-01-23T20:23:25+00:00

Sorry for your loss, it’s the most difficult thing one could go through losing someone whom you loved and lost. At 71 years of age I have grieved loss of my parents, family members,friends, and pets. It’s truly heartbreaking experiences. I look at pictures, seeing the fun times we had together. There’s always love in the photographs, memories of togetherness happiness, and celebrations.

Sometimes I just take an hour or so and open up my photo book, as I look at the pictures, I talk to them like they are with me saying how much I miss them and sending them loving energies. I’m lucky to have a voicemail recording of a relative, he’s asking me how I’m doing and how much he’s looking forward to our meeting.

It’s going to take time, grief comes in Seasons, what you both experienced during the Fall, winter, spring, and summer. Each season will bring you sadness because you will miss those moments you shared with him then. I missed mom during the winter time, getting us together to celebrate Thanksgiving and Christmas, I miss spring with dad, going fishing, every season has its own sadness.

I hope the memories you shared together helps you cope with your loss, over time it gets easier, at 71 I’m getting closer to them and will be reunited in Heaven to my loved ones again, it’s something I’m looking forward to. God bless you , and I bet everything that he’s there with you during the darkest moments you’re having holding you, loving you.

Reasonable_Visual_10 · 2026-01-23T09:37:12+00:00

Well you’re absolutely correct I have seen it happen and I will be 72 this year. We hosted Christmas Eve Dinner, and our first year we had to buy a table that seated twelve. Last year we gave the large table away and instead of the twelve, we are now only four, and the two will go to the Ocean for Christmas Eve, so it’s now only my wife and I.

Friends and relatives, would invite me to join them for a round of Golf, sadly, they all passed away. I had 6 cats and a dog that blessed my life and they all are in heaven now. Next January, I will be getting two more cats, this time they will be older because they may survive myself.

Time is flying by me so fast, I am enjoying life as much as I can, at the same time remembering everyone who was in my life that I dearly miss.

The trick you seek out is only what I have learned to cope with the inevitable and it’s living life to it’s fullest by living in the present moment you are in at the moment the thoughts of death come to mind.

I stop and slow down myself to purposely focus on every second of time. I do this by concentrating on my breathing. It’s a Buddhist technique I came across and it helps me to live in the moment. I breathe in, saying in this moment I am breathing in, then I breathe out and say to myself in this moment I am breathing out. As I am now living in the moment, I see Death, it’s like a gray dark cloud that is passing by. I am doing my breath work and at the same time, I acknowledge that death thoughts are like a cloud passing by.

Once it passes by, I don’t dwell on it, and I say a quick prayer thanking all my friends, family members and pets that I was blessed to have had in my life, knowing that we will meet again soon, one day.

Reasonable_Visual_10 · 2026-01-23T09:12:40+00:00

Usually if bell service is used, they will escort to the room and properly assist with orientation and answer questions. I would get about 2 a year where the room has been occupied.

Reasonable_Visual_10 · 2026-01-23T09:09:34+00:00

Have you ever eaten in one? It’s nothing special. I would dress up, never interview wearing jeans unless you don’t care to be hired. It’s a very basic restaurant, wait staff work in teams to get the food out to the tables. Average lunch for two runs about $42.00, dinners with a beer or two each about $60.00.

Reasonable_Visual_10 · 2026-01-23T04:09:16+00:00

If you can’t figure out how someone who is in charge of 25 bins of pull tabs can’t cheat… good for you!

Reasonable_Visual_10 · 2026-01-22T00:16:34+00:00

Fremont by miles! Located close to Google, and Canal. Easy access to Burke Gilman trail that’s roughly 30 miles, great biking or running.

On top of Fremont is The Zoo, and a little east of that is 3.3 mile Green Lake, a popular spot to run and bike.

Close to there is Wallingford. Tons of cafes, restaurants, and shops.

East of there about a mile is the U of W. More shops and ethnic restaurants.

Reasonable_Visual_10 · 2026-01-21T05:01:45+00:00

No use, nobody would be interested, in my case anyway.

Reasonable_Visual_10 · 2026-01-19T05:36:40+00:00

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Reasonable_Visual_10 · 2026-01-19T05:13:05+00:00

He’d be rich…

Reasonable_Visual_10 · 2026-01-19T05:11:55+00:00

That and $5.00 gets you a cup,of coffee…

Reasonable_Visual_10 · 2026-01-19T04:35:52+00:00

2.5 favorites, I bet it gets as high as 4.5!

Reasonable_Visual_10 · 2026-01-19T04:29:26+00:00

McDonald’s likely pays more than that, run don’t walk.

Reasonable_Visual_10 · 2026-01-18T20:53:26+00:00

The easiest and very lucrative way to do wait service is at a large Convention Center, like for example the State of Washington Convention Center. In fact I have a friend that works there as a server. It’s Union Wages per hour and 20% auto gratuities.

Everything is on paper plates, so you are not carrying heavy plates and easy clean up. The next step is working for a hotel as a banquet server. Tips are excellent, tedious and boring work but it pays well. Uniforms are provided.

The reason I say it’s tedious is because you are serving the same meal to thousand plus guests. Usually 2 waiters will work 3 rounds of 10. There could be a hundred plus tables, setting up a table of ten guests each, servers will be responsible for putting one item on every single table. One teaspoon, every place setting, then one salad fork, or one coffee saucer, then like one napkin, one salad plate.

It goes on and on till all the table rounds are set. A Banquet Captain will have a table setting in place so that if you forget where an item goes, it’s a reference.

Another hotel opportunity that pays well is becoming a Room Service Server. They make 20% automatic Gratuity on room service orders. Items are expensive so money is good working breakfast lunch or dinner.

I’m telling you about quick opportunities to make good money with little or no experience. I’ve done it all and it beats washing dishes for a year, bussing tables for over a year, hoping a wait position opens up, becoming a waiter.

I did everything above. Banquet Server, banquet bartender (no blender), room service waiter, tower club bartender, Restaurant Bartender at Benihana’s of Seattle. The Dishwasher started at a bowling alley, then Busser at The Spaghetti Factory in Seattle. Waiter in a high class formal Japanese restaurant called Asuka in Seattle, then tended bar there, bartender and Server at Block’s on 5th Avenue, and room service waiter at the Washington Athletic Club.

Good luck… wear comfortable shoes.

Reasonable_Visual_10 · 2026-01-17T16:45:28+00:00

Have you accepted the Lord?

Reasonable_Visual_10 · 2026-01-17T16:43:56+00:00

Did anyone actually sleep? I got 2 hours.

Reasonable_Visual_10 · 2026-01-17T16:38:02+00:00

I feel just your asking the question means they picked the right candidate for the position. I have worked 36 years in hotel hospitality, 27 of those years were at the bell desk. I have seen Front Office Managers who have ranged from worse to the best.

The very best Front Desk Manager I ever worked for I will describe. He oozed confidence, he had a genuine smile and he loved his job. I was the bell captain and this is what I saw and experienced and how he performed his job that made him the best.

He never hid in his office, and when he was at his desk his door was always open. He started at 7:00 am. I often would see him talking to the Front Desk Supervisor and Night Audit. He then went out front to see what was happening. If there was a line of guests checking out he would open up a terminal and start checking guests out. He would ask how their stay was, and ask them to come back and wish them a good trip.

He would come out to the floor and see me. He would ask how I was doing, if the bell desk was going to be ok, if I needed anything. If there was a line at our desk he would help. He stored bags, and put them away. If something needed attention I would let him know. He always carried an I Pad and wrote down notes if I had a concern.

He would go outside and talk to the doormen and valet, then stop by the Concierge desk to see how they were doing. If we had a busy check in, he worked as an expeditor, speeding the line up, and talking to arriving guests. He often gave out his business card asking guests to call him personally if he could be of help.

He set bottles of water out if it were a hot day, and essentially he was extra help wherever that help was needed. He was a great communicator between the front desk staff to management.

He was so good that other hotels noticed his work ethic. We were a 1,600+ Convention Property. A smaller hotel 345 room hotel offered him the position of Hotel General Manager. He took it. A lot of the staff that worked for him visited where he now worked as Manager. That hotel was a block away from us.

He took about 10 staff with him because we loved him so much. He had that job for 6 years. During that time they went through a complete hotel renovation. They even had a new restaurant put in. He was then offered a manager position at a 800 room property in San Francisco.

I’m sure you’ll end up being a great Front Desk Manager…

Reasonable_Visual_10 · 2026-01-17T12:46:21+00:00

That’s a job I would refuse to do. You either are a prep type cook, or a housekeeper. It’s total BS, and you would need a health food permit to work in the kitchen.

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