Topic: Anybody work in a coffee shop in Amsterdam (Read 2789 times)

you could go to australia.. their minimum wage is something like $16/hr.. that's what i'd do at least.

lol are you kidding

I like to spend some time there but not as a worker..

That would be perfect but it's getting the money together for the equipment and enough to live on while waiting for the harvest :/.

lol I have been there and done that. I do have a passion for cannabis and not being able to smoke while work would not bother me one bit I can manage to not smoke for 8-12hrs....jeez

Nope, but I have on several occasions been a happy customer...

There is always room for breeders or growers, it's just getting set up and establishing yourself.

Coffee shops are overrated. The best way to experience it is to visit that place as customer not as employee. If cannabis is your passion and you want it to stay that way, just smoke weed.
Working in coffee shop would probably just annoy you in the end. You can't smoke weed there while working...

Thanks for info, gave me some food for thought.


What about other jobs over there, is there much un-skilled work about that pays enough to live off?

Main reason I was thinking budtender is because I know cannabis like the back of my hand and don't have many other skills.

You are over glorifying a job in the service industry, trust me I am passionate about cannabis and have been for many years and when i was younger i thought a CS job would be cool and a good use of my passion.

Since living here for 1.5 years i have watched many new BT's come and go, when they first arrive they are enthused in their jobs, eager to learn, happy to see boxes of weed, happy to talk to customers and try and make recommendations.

Almost always about 3 weeks into their job they have lost enthusiasm, they hate looking at the boxes of weed they cna't smoke and their boss makes a pretty penny from a 50% mark up
, they resent the tourists, they resent their regulars who can come in and afford supply, they resent their long boring hours of serving the same shit over and over again. recommending crap to tourist only to have them ignore you or question your choices, the hardest part for me would be recommending half the shit the coffeeshops sell as high grade weed, when in reality it is fresh unflushed commercial shit.

Basically it's not a great job, few stay passionate and the ones that are happy are normally the owners.

edit: saying that i have met a few who have been here a long time and are true honest people who loved their job, although no longer working due to their shop being closed during school hours now and due to close next year. Amsterdam is not the place it once was, many of the old faithful are moving ship to spain or USA.

I don't think that's true, I've also been there a few times site seeing myself and have the ability to pick things up quick.

I believe to be a budtender all that is required is knowledge about cannabis and what strains would be best for the customers requirement whether it be for medical reasons or to just get high. I am starting to think it's going be hard to get though since it's a dream job for most stoners but then again do most stoners know much about cannabis.  

I live in A'dam and frequent coffeeshops(mainly to buy) on a daily basis. Do you speak multiple languages?

Do you have expereince in the service industry?

where are you from?

have you looked at the costs of living in A'dam, it is an expensive city?

Have you looked into the requirements needed to find employment here?


edit: also around 50-70 shops are set to close next year due to new government regulations regarding distance from a school.

i work at a starbucks

Ahh sweet. I imagine that it would be difficult to get a job in a coffee shop in Amsterdam on the basis that you're not local, or at least from the region, plus there's the demand for such a role.

Of course, if you knew someone who owned/worked in one that would help. Perhaps a few trips to befriend a few people working in one would be wise, if this is what you really want to pursue

Based in UK at moment

Lol and I also don't think any of the coffee shops would be to interested in hiring a foreigner just cause I'm sure forigns come and ask for directions and about good and where to site see

Where are you based now? For all we know you could live a few cities away from Amsterdam

No one knows to much about cannibus. Seriously people don't know enough and that's the problem with society and their views on it .

Happy toking

I know too much about Cannabis...

I would assume that it's quite hard to get a job at a coffee shop unless u know someone or are a woman with big ole tittys. You would probally have to know quite a bit about the herb