Tacoma/Seattle area Washington.

well said lonman
 

well said....why play if your not going to be paid for your experience or professionalism. its just about not worth it. here in italy we're making $200.00 a night on the base for the troops, outside the base on the economy about 120 euros which is about 150.00 dollars.

One bar that our system was running at for 12 years wanted to stop paying us in cash (because we were going to raise our prices to $200/night) and wanted to give us gas gift cards and for the local grocery store. Well since I moved 200 miles away that would not help me much since the gas station they were going to get the cards from also are not in the location I live in.

I dropped that place like a hot potato.

This is actually a pretty much moot question "As in any case; in any profession "some ARE and some ARE NOT".