Aug 25, 2009 13:08
I'm not entirely sure I want to cook anymore. I like cooking, but honestly, I look around, and I see people like me are sous chefs, I know a couple of chefs, and then the field disappears-- what happens to all of those driven, talented, ambitious cooks who worked their way up the ladder for a bit? Is it really such a huge gap between sous chef and chef that there is nowhere to go, nothing to do? Where do all of these ex-sous chefs, these ex-chef-de-cuisines go? Do? What working world makes the next sensible step?
I'm just not happy in such a low-paying industry. Of course, once you hit chef, even a shitty job pays comfortably into the middle class, but it's strictly poverty-level wages until then. As much as I hate to admit it, even though I enjoy the work, the directness, the simplicity, the artistic and athletic potential, I don't know that I care about it enough to deal with such limited options financially...
So now, what next?