Career Changers

[snousle]

Very 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 - 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.

Comments

[bbearseviltwin.livejournal.com]

There can only be three reasons why one makes a complete career change. Desperation, boredom and love of the new career. No one does it for the money, not if they are sane. In some ways it is like all those kids trying for a professional sports career. Only a few will end up as celebrity sport stars, most of the rest will end up as high school gym teachers, or working at Footlocker.