I would like your advice
Posted by Chewy on Friday, April 27th, 2007
There may come a day very soon where I will have to decide to go to culinary school or take a job as a line cook.
The job will be for a year at minimum wage under an established chef at somewhat famous restaurant with an excellent reputation. I am assuming it will be for five nights a week. Not only will I learn to cook, I will learn to cook well. After a year, the chef will help me get a job at another restaurant.
School would be for three nights a week for nine months and cost me about $35k, but will provide me with an externship, probably at a pretty decent restaurant. An externship does not guarantee a job. But I will make connections.
What do you think? What would you do?
Spuyten Duyvil tonight.
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If I were wearing your very small, Hello Kitty print shoes, I would take the restaurant job. I think that real world experience is much more valuable than a degree, and I think that you can easily make connections if you’re succeeding in a good kitchen. Plus, if by chance, you find yourself hating working in a kitchen in 6 months, you won’t be out $35K…
Comment written by Joe on 3:34 pm on the 29th of April, 2007