At some point during my tenure as a barista, I became the curator of the cafe’s music selection. It was my job to buy CDs for the fifty-disc CD changer that served as a primitive iPod, providing the musical backdrop for caffeinated web browsing.
I did a couple of music content ‘deals’ for Speakeasy, bundling eMusic and Rhapsody digital music services with customer’s DSL accounts.
What I remember is that we had to move quickly. If you knew how to get the job done, the job was yours.
There are too many memories! There were a lot of good times, but the best times were spent in Belltown and the bestest times were spent before the cafe burned down.
you | wonder whether if | with eyes closed | we could bend spoons | or ascend stairs | by desire alone
I lived right next door to Speakeasy, and I loved waking up, stumbling down the stairs, seeing my coworkers and friends right away, getting a cup of coffee at the cafe and laughing about something that happened the night before.
I think that sense of community and togetherness is one of the best things I took away from my time there. Everyone was so friendly with each other and it was really great.
While working at Speakeasy, I also had the privilege of performing in a play on the Speakeasy Cafe Backroom stage.
I was hired on as a technical support representative, but I was then quickly transitioned into building our servers, and setting up workstations desks while working facilities with Tyler Apgar.
I started off on the sales team. I wasn’t the best sales person on the team, however, I was good at process and lots of the sales guys weren’t.