I went 21 days without a sip … i was so happy for myself, feeling amazing…eating better…hitting the gym …went back to my bartending job BOOM … drank n couldn’t stop
I think i need to take myself out of that environment… what do you all think???
Update: I QUIT TODAY
You need a new job, this isn’t gonna work
I had to remove myself from basically all drinking environments for a while, including just social. It would take a lot more self discipline than I think I would have anywhere in the first 6 months to a year to work in that environment.
There’s no way I would be sober now if I was still working in pubs or clubs. It just seemed to be part of the job, and sometimes it felt like I needed a drink then to enable me to keep smiling at drunk assholes at 10.30 at night (but that’s probably just me!) 
Scary to have to think of changing your job and your drinking habit at the same time, but I think you’ll be glad in the end.
Good luck to you 
I stopped a little more than 6 months while bar tending. But the difference with you is that I saw my problem of alcool only as a part of my job and then I decided to stop drinking while working. While doing so I also stopped everywhere else. So I told my boss, the regulars and my collègues. I relapsed not on the job but in solitude, at home, feeling lost and depressed. While I was working I felt strong because I was the only one sharp enough to make shit happen during rushes and late night. I think if you have a problem with substances abuse every environment is a reason to abuse. Of course going in a bar when alcoolic is the best example people uses for context of relapsing. But the main problem isn’t really the context but your relation to the substance and the association you’ve made with it in different context. I thought quitting my job would make it better. It actually made it worst because now home alone way more and this loneliness became my environment of drinking and “trigger”. Anyways , only you know the answer. If you can’t tell people at your job that you don’t want to drink, than maybe you should quit if you want to stop drinking. But therefore why wouldn’t you just tell the people at your job? Sometimes different questions can bring different roots of thoughts. If you can’t tell the people you work with, then does it mean you haven’t truly committed to sobriety enough so you aren’t sure to tell people yet? Those are the kind of questions I was asking myself before quitting. And I realized I just wanted to avoid the affirmation of myself and my true beliefs in sobriety in front of other people, because I was afraid of judgment.
Just some thoughts… wish you luck and wisdom for your decision.
I think it a wise decision. Too many other things you could be doing for a living, that won’t hinder your sobriety.
Luckily I have a full time job where overtime is an option and can make up for the bartending earnings
I did… i think I kinda needed the reassurance:)
Thank you bunches!!!
Most definitely.
I haven’t been in a bar in 3 years… I remember what I did there. If we hang around the barbershop, sooner or later we end up getting a haircut. All I know.