WASHINGTON — Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez says being a waitress is just as good as being a member of Congress.

“I find it revealing when people mock where I come from, & say they’re going to ‘send me back to waitressing,’ as if that’s bad or shameful,” she tweeted on Friday. “It’s as though they think being a member of Congress makes you intrinsically ‘better’ than a waitress.”

“But our job is to serve, not rule,” added the New York Democrat, a former bartender.

Last month, Ocasio-Cortez championed the skills she learned in the restaurant industry after being praised for her questioning of Michael Cohen, President Trump’s former lawyer, at a House Oversight Committee hearing.

“Bartending + waitressing (especially in NYC) means you talk to 1000s of people over the years. Forces you to get great at reading people + hones a razor-sharp BS detector,” she wrote on Twitter. “Just goes to show that what some consider to be ‘unskilled labor’ can actually be anything but.”