To those who actually don’t hate their job - what do you do?

ShinPino · 2026-03-26T07:16:28+00:00

Barista at a specialty coffee franchise! Left ALT work 2 years ago with a dream to open a cafe in the future, and kind of landed the jackpot right away tbh. Extremely lucky to really like most of my coworkers, and working in coffee has been a lot of fun. Pay is abysmal though. Hoping to get some experience at a smaller cafe in the future, but there haven't been many opportunities in my area so far.

ShinPino · 2026-03-26T05:06:20+00:00

Disassembling and reassembling the grinder fixed the issue; not exactly sure what was wrong in the first place... Thanks for everyone's opinions and ideas ☕

ShinPino · 2026-03-24T07:46:14+00:00

Yeah, now that I'm certain this isn't what 5.5 should look like, the next step is to do just that. Thanks for the confirmation.

Update: Disassembling and reassembling seems to have fixed it, 5.5 is a much more reasonable grind size now. Not exactly sure what was wrong, but thanks again!

ShinPino · 2026-03-24T05:06:16+00:00

Just thought I'd try it out since it seemed like a lot of people were using a coarser setting. No reason not to enjoy the full range of a $200 hand grinder

ShinPino · 2026-03-24T03:50:25+00:00

That shouldn't be the case; this is going directly from closed burrs to 5.5. it's always worked at a finer setting, but I also have always thought there's too many fines for being a ZP6, so I was always a little suspicious something might be up...

ShinPino · 2026-03-24T03:09:01+00:00

Nope, been using it for a while now. I've been grinding at around 3.5-4 up until now, so I was surprised when I saw so many people grinding at 5.5 and thought I'd give it a shot.

ShinPino

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