Career Changers
Sep. 25th, 2009 05:15 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
snousleVery interesting article in the Chronicle about people who switch to a culinary career late in life.
The comments are particularly interesting. I have to endorse just about everything the most severe naysayers say about this; the celebrity chef phenomenon has greatly distorted the perception of the trade. Long hours and low pay indeed. I had to laugh over comments about 14 hour days at a third the pay - sometimes I work 16 hours at one tenth the pay. LOL. There are paths to this that work -![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
chefxh is a good example - but you have to be very committed.
Nothing in the article or the comments was anything I didn't know going into this. It's a real tough line of work no matter how you do it.
The comments are particularly interesting. I have to endorse just about everything the most severe naysayers say about this; the celebrity chef phenomenon has greatly distorted the perception of the trade. Long hours and low pay indeed. I had to laugh over comments about 14 hour days at a third the pay - sometimes I work 16 hours at one tenth the pay. LOL. There are paths to this that work -
chefxh is a good example - but you have to be very committed. Nothing in the article or the comments was anything I didn't know going into this. It's a real tough line of work no matter how you do it.
