How do I progress as a cook? I feel like I'm stuck in an endless grind of dead-end cooking jobs with shit pay. I have 10+ years of experience working in kitchens, but it seems like you either quit and work at a different restaurant or stick around long enough and get lucky enough to get promoted to manager. How do people live like this?
I was thinking about becoming homeless. Wanna join me, we can cook in the park and not even care.
>>21986852How often do you look for jobs at the level you’re trying to move up to? Your city might just be short on decent restaurants..
you don't live as a cook, you die young. get out of the industry and pivot your career into something more stable.
>>21986862I live in a small town, so there's only one or two actual restaurants and the rest are fast food places. Even the "restaurants" are more like casual dining places like steakhouses and wing pubs.
>>21986852>How do I progress as a cook?I had a good laugh at this. That was a good joke, OP.
How do you know if a line cook smokes cigarettes and abuses alcohol to cope with their mental illness?Don't worry, they'll tell you.
>>21986852Wasn’t there an anon that did personal chef work? That seems like it could be lucrative. Also I don’t but maybe you could cross over into food testing and development
take notes
>>21986852Why don't you just become a chef?
>>21986871Do you work at an actual restaurant or fast food?
>>21986852You're off mate? Eh where's your passion gone? Look, I know your Mum/Da/alcoholist brother died of cancer/suicide/train selfie. Can't be done about.Paint everything and stop acting an arse. Plate something with class. Clean something, yeah? YES CHEF!That's what you say. I got me BALLS chef. I got me PASSION. I done shagging waitresses and gone t'chirch.Now. How's a risotto?
>>21986852Start a Youtube channel
>>21986852>How do I progress as a cook?you cut things, you heat them up, you cool them down, you combine them, you assemble them, you season them, you plate them.cooking is easy, that's why you master it so quickly.if you wanted a vocation where progression exists, switch to being a researcher.
>>21986852Switch places and develop specialty cuisines.
>>21986852in the restaurant business it's not what you know, it's who you blow.
>>21986871>I live in a small townWell, there's your problem. Small towns are for when you already have made something out of your life or when you want to work trades. There is no place for advancement for anything else.
>>21987181I do well after about 20years of work, probably a kilo of speed and more booze and weed than most do in a lifetime. I got my setup at an undisclosed airport and I meet the crews for the billionaire class weekly and the billionaires themselves at least monthly. Ndas are obviously a thing so no details, but high-end airplane catering is a lucrative business and noone cares about the price. And if you're not socially inept you'll be able to hitch a lot of rides with the customers and see the world.A former employee got recruited by one of my customers, he's now making 120k/year with zero living expenses because he travels with his employer. 30% of chefs succumb to vices, 30% plateau at a basic level, 20% lack social skills, 9% get a career and maybe 1% find the golden ticket that puts life on easy mode. Today I will make snackplates, sandwiches, salads and pastries for 9 persons and 4 crew members. I will charge 85$/crewmember and 180$/passenger.
>>21986852>How do I progress as a cook? I feel like I'm stuck in an endless grind of dead-end cooking jobs with shit pay.That's the fun part, You don't.You have chosen one of the most painful, back breaking and ungrateful professions in the world. You will work long ass hours, in a hot, loud and highly stressful enviroment, get shit tier pay, develop alcoholism and tabagism, probably an ulcer, and you will continue on this miserable path until you either quit and move to a better restaurant or change professions/retire.You want a better life in the food industry? Then save up, take a loan and open your own restaurant. Other than that you are fucked forever.
>>21989231>You have chosen one of the most painful, back breaking and ungrateful professions in the world. You will work long ass hours, in a hot, loud and highly stressful enviroment, get shit tier pay, develop alcoholism and tabagism, probably an ulcer, and you will continue on this miserable path until you either quit and move to a better restaurant or change professions/retire.>AHH FUCK I HAVE TO WORK A MINIMUM WAGE JOB FOR FELONS AND COLLEGE KIDS AHHPic related really got to your head huh?
