[ SECRET POST #1670 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #1670 ⌋


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Notes:

Going to be short posts this week, LJ being down half the week means less secrets total, sorry about that.

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Comments

[fscom.livejournal.com]

07. http://oi52.tinypic.com/29pvhgl.jpg

DO IT

[lady-laguna.livejournal.com]

Life's too short to waste thinking "what if." If it's your dream, then you should do all you can to make it work! Your subconscious is trying to tell you something, OP.

you go anon

[santagrover.livejournal.com]

That being said, Alton Brown is the best. <3

[yami-shiba-inu.livejournal.com]

Maybe if you tried taking some sort of cooking class in your free time, you could test out if it was really the cooking idea that made you happy?

[fickletastictot.livejournal.com]

This. You should try to see if cooking/baking in the agrees with you first before attempting to forge a career in it. Good luck, OP. :]

[formula-410.livejournal.com]

This is a good idea! Also, Alton Brown is the bomb.

[fandomonymous.livejournal.com]

I dream about running away and starting a bakery whenever I'm up to my eyebrows in studying for my comprehensives...which is to say, a lot. My allergies (to eggs - I have to adapt every recipe to use my egg substitutes) stop me from pursuing it seriously.

If you don't have anything like that holding you back, I highly suggest finding a formal cooking class to take, as others have suggested. If it still speaks to you, then it's more than just the fangirling/the fantasy TV chefs provide about a life revolving about food.

Good luck to you, and I totally agree with the Alton fangirling. ♥

[smokingguncafe.livejournal.com]

Very appropriate secret, since today is his birthday!

[lashiec.livejournal.com]

Alton Brown IS pretty amazing.

[(Anonymous)]

DO IT! The closest you can get to Mr. Brown is NECI - I go to NECI and I LOVE IT. Culinary school is fantastic and so damn fulfilling and huge bonus - I met Alton Brown at the last NECI graduation .... so ..... DO IT!

[ianthine9.livejournal.com]

As someone just (temporarialy) getting out of the industry...

Please, go stage somewhere first before giving up your life for a job in it. It is very much not the job for everyone.

Can you handle (assuming you are female) sexual assault from your coworkers every day? Grabass is a kitchen pasttime. It's lots and lots of inappropriate jokes. Can you handle getting slammed with 40 orders all at once because the host was an idiot, and not being able to even step away from a 120+ degree station because there are 20 minute tickets up in the window, and there's all kinds of waitresses wondering what the wait is? Can you handle being on your feet for 8-10 hours a day? Can you handle not having a social life, as the hours you'll be working are the hours all your friends with office jobs are going to be doing things like...well, going out to eat? Can you handle getting paid a laughably small sum and 50+ hour weeks?

It is quite possibly the most fun profession there is, but it is incredibly physically and mentally taxing. If you're the sort of person that likes a challenge, and really does like to buckle down and work as hard as possible and who gets off on a job that will beat the shit out of you, it is the most rewarding thing on the planet, and i'm going to miss it like hell. It's just there's nothing hiring in my area in the industry outside of fast food.

It is the best job ever, if you've got the right sort of personality for it. If the above sounds like fun, then definitely go for it! Just be aware that it is nothing like what Food Network/Hells Kitchen/Kitchen Nightmares make it out to be.

[(Anonymous)]

Perhaps you should take some cooking classes and see if it's something you really want to go after.

As a poster said, it's really hard work and not as easy as it looks on tv.

I've never worked in the restaurant industry, and when people see the stuff I cook they always tell me that I should consider a career in baking or being a chef. But I know better. I've worked in customer service before, and I even worked in a bakery for a short while when I was 19. You have to have the patience for rude customers, you have to be able to have good craftsmanship, and the flexibility to fix orders than can go wrong in the blink of an eye. The payoff of really nice people who get excited over something as simple as a beautiful birthday cake is a great feeling, but all the stress and feet hurting (Crocs helped a ton, and no, I didn't care what people thought of me when I was walking to work or walking home in them) built up over time.
I also don't think I have the creativity to be a good baker/chef. The only reason I cook or bake things "so good" is because I followed the recipe. So I'm good at following a recipe, it doesn't mean I can be the next Gusteau (and yes that is a favorite film of mine <3 ).
I have a passion for cooking but not the mindset to become a chef.

Really evaluate the positives and negatives that come with a career as a chef. If you pursue, I wish you the best! If not, there isn't any harm in taking cooking classes for fun.
BTW, yes, Alton Brown is awesome!

[(Anonymous)]

Like other posters have said, take a cooking class, but also I would suggest seeking out people who work in kitchens in your area and get advice from them - and maybe even try a part-time job in a fast food joint to test yourself. Fast food is not exactly culinary to be sure, but the 'on your feet all day and in a hot ass kitchen' element is still there. There's no guarantee that any place you get work, you'll be making the food you want to make, so starting with fast food is a good way to eat humble pie and learn it's not a job about you.

Everyone has fantasies about jobs they'd like better than their own, but what we forget is that these fantasies usually involve us making more of our own decisions that these actual job tracks call for - we get romanced by the thought of having control over our lives and following our dreams. But you need to make damn sure you understand that reality of being an actual cook, and how it's pretty much one of the hardest careers you can set for yourself - and you need to be honest with yourself if you have the constitution to be that sort of person. It turned Anthony Bourdain into a speed freak, after all.