🔎 In Focus: Brit Alexandria, Part 2
"I am not a monolith. I'm not telling you this is how you have to treat disabled baristas. We are all different. So accept that there are things that I won't know because I don't know everyone on your staff."
Hi friends! As paid subscribers, you receive bonus interview content that didn’t make it into the main profiles and interviews. This continues my conversation with Brit Alexandria Sims, a writer, barista/manager, and advocate.
On non-coffee jobs
In addition to talking about what keeps Brit in coffee, we also discussed their non-coffee jobs. I used to do tech in high school theater (props, building sets), but didn’t do stage managing. However, I observed a lot of stage managers and their giant binders—it was stressful enough watching them do this on top of high school classes. Stage managers run the show and make sure everything is on track.
Jenn: You like the challenge and the constant education that you have to do in coffee. And you feel like you can't do that in any other industry?
Brit: Not as much, no. I feel like there's always challenges in everything. I used to be a stage manager in professional theater and there was always the challenge of making it through every show. But I do really like the challenge of the coffee industry specifically where it's always learning on the job. There's always something I don't know, like the Fetco has broken down and how do we make drip coffee, or how do we satisfy customers in that way, or we had a $2,000 hour and we survived.
