February 3, 2005

Serve's Up

Drinkmaster Bartending School

Is it you, or is the office getting more and more Orwellian by the day?

Tonight, instead of cracking open a longneck and the Help Wanted section (for another job in another cubicle farm), head to DrinkMaster Bartending School and pick up a cocktail, the effects of which will last longer than most.

Students earn their Designated Server license with the help of a jigger, muddler, cocktail shaker, and citrus peeler. Instructors, meanwhile, help you put these tools to work in more ways than you can shake (but not stir) a good martini.

Classes are offered daily or nightly in one-week sessions. (Weekend sessions are available, too.) The school also helps graduates with job placement through resume building, refresher courses, and a postings link on its website.

Soon, you’ll be pouring behind the bar at your favorite watering hole with nary a cubicle in sight. There now: just the shake-up your life needed.

Oh, and with a twist of lemon, please …

DrinkMaster Bartending School, 41 Winter Street, Suite 55, at the Park Street T-Stop, Downtown Crossing, Boston (617-482-1999 or drinkmasterbartending.com).