Don't Hate Me, I'm Just Drawn Bad: Scottsdale Edition

Looks and Luck

I live in Arizona, land of a libertarian dipped conservatism that makes for harsh laws, and lax morality, and policy imbecility. We have prostitution businesses masquerading as houses of religious worship, religiously minded ASU students accepting $2000 payments to do extreme porn, and a legislature content to offer tax cuts to attract business while tossing people off of Medicaid and cutting health care access for children. Oh, and we have dubiously attractive women of vague age who get jobs really easily.

It's this last one that has caught my attention. The left leaning New Times profiles one Amber Miller, who works as a bartender at Axis/Radius in Scottsdale:

How did you get started in bartending?

It was the second time I had ever been to Axis. I was just with some of my girlfriends and I ended up talking to a guy who had bartended there who had the night off. I told him about how I thought it would be really cool to bartend in Scottsdale, but I didn't have any experience, so I didn't really think any of the places would take me. He introduced me to the general manager, who told me to come in the following week for an audition night behind the bar and to give him a guest list of people who'd come in that night. That was basically it -- I didn't know anything; they just totally threw me into it on the audition night. But after looking at the number of people I brought in -- I used to be in a sorority, so I was able to bring in a lot of people that night -- they were impressed with me. So they gave me the job based on the fact that I was good at promoting and looked good behind the bar.

(New Times)

I'm not going to lie. If I owned a club or restaurant and had an attractive woman apply, she would probably get hired first, and then trained later. Why? Because people like to see pretty faces, and pretty often attracts pretty which attracts everyone else.

But I'm also not going to lie. If you are an attractive person, females in particular, maintain a level of humility regarding your achievements. Studies have shown that attractive people are more likely to get hired, and more likely to earn more and be given the benefit of the doubt. You can shave off the top layer of your success and attribute that to God or good fortune.