Hard work and extra hours cleaning the tables after work, but when the tips came in, in the end of the day it it was good. Especially from tourists, they tipped much better than locals, but then again, wages are not the best in Latvia.
I feel the pain, though, there is a lot of times when you put an effort and it turns out to be for nothing, a lot of people do not realize that service workers are people, too. But in the end, each job has it's own bad and good sides.