Not only is the bartending industry not considered particularly family friendly-from the late nights of slinging drinks to the often complete lack of benefits or job security-it’s also just beginning to find its footing as a full-time career path for many people.
The challenges faced by all new and expectant mothers are amplified when those mothers are working behind the stick, and Mains certainly isn’t alone in her effort to make what many consider an untraditional career path work in tandem with starting a family as we’ve reported in the past, women make up 60 percent of the bartending industry. “What may seem to many people in the Midwest to be a very untraditional and unacceptable role for a woman, to me, I couldn’t survive having it any other way.” “I want to have both and I’m not going to choose-that’s not an option for me,” says Mains. “And I think that I have failed in some areas at keeping the balance.”īut instead of giving in to criticisms and stepping down from her ownership and management roles in Oklahoma City’s burgeoning food and drink scene to care for her son full-time, Mains is forging ahead. “I’ve tried hard in a lot of ways to figure out the balance between work and family, which is difficult in any business, but especially in this business,” says Mains.
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Now, with a toddler and a two more cocktail bars-Silver Lining and Rum Rebellion-underway, Mains ( pictured above) is wrestling with a dilemma that’s all too familiar to modern working mothers: Figuring out how to balance a fulfilling career with motherhood. I get a thrill out of feeling like I’m hosting a party, an escape for people.” “To me, hospitality is what has always attracted me to this business-I have always loved and believed in over the top hospitality.
“In those first few months when I was stuck on the couch breastfeeding, I read a lot of cocktail books and started to get that bug,” says Mains.
Less than a year and a half later, she opened her first cocktail bar-and third business- Rockford Cocktail Den. Two and a half years ago, Anna Mains gave birth to Nixon, her first and only son.
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