Most descriptions of bartending are written by people selling something — a course, a job board listing, a lifestyle. They describe the parts that are easy to romanticize and skip the parts that decide whether you last.
This module describes the job from the operations side: what a shift is actually made of, who else is behind the bar and what each of them is responsible for, where openings genuinely come from, and what the work costs you in body and schedule. None of it is discouragement. It is the information you would get from a friend who has worked bars for six years, delivered in the order you need it.
Two things are deliberately not here. Pay is Module 1, because it deserves the whole module and because the honest answer is arithmetic, not a number. What you need in hand before you can legally work is Module 2, because that depends on where you live and we are not going to guess.
Read this one first even if you already know you want the job. The fourth lesson in particular covers the things people find out in week three and wish they had known before they rearranged their life around a schedule that runs opposite to everyone else's.