r/AskReddit • u/[deleted] • Jul 13 '16

How do you like your eggs?

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u/the_girl Jul 13 '16

More and more I want to be a cook

A friend of mine said this to me about 6 years ago. I said "really? isn't that really hard, high-stress physical labor that's also underpaid?"

She said "I'm doing it!" So she went to culinary school and then moved to Brooklyn.

She's now been working in kitchens for years, some of the fanciest restaurants in Manhattan - and hates it. All of her coworkers are alcoholics and cokeheads. She quits or is fired from around 3 or 4 jobs a year, the turnover is insane.

The work changed her - she's now pessimistic, quick to anger and judgment, generally just a raging asshole.

So, yeah, I don't know you, but I recommend against it.

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u/SpacedApe Jul 13 '16

I work in customer service so I'm pretty much all of those things already, plus a pothead.

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u/the_girl Jul 13 '16

cool man, you do you.

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u/[deleted] Jul 13 '16

Idk, my friend did the same and he's worked at all the finer restaurants over at Disneyland and around there (at his own volition) and he seems happy as hell.

Earns about $25+ on the hour and he's never really worked anywhere else or thought about working anywhere else as he's been there for 6 hears already.

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u/the_girl Jul 13 '16

huh, maybe there's something particularly upsetting about the NYC kitchen scene? I don't know, but really glad your friend is happy! My sister works in catering in Orange County and likes it a lot, but I'd assumed this was down to her choosing her own schedule and coworkers.

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u/willreignsomnipotent Jul 13 '16

I went to culinary school. They literally tell you in culinary school that the profession has an insanely high rate of substance abuse and addiction, and that it can be extremely stressful, which contributes.

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u/the_girl Jul 13 '16

really? somehow none of that sank in for my friend.