Au Revoir United!
Well, the time has come to return to my career. I have taked a job as a tableside chef at ZED451, starting tomorrow night! I am total stoked!! I have missed cooking and been thinking of returning to it for quite a while as I have posted on here a few times. Being a FA for United was fun and I loved that I got to see a large part of the world, but its time to move on and return to my career.
I also have two stage's (stage is a french word...basically you work free for a day like an interview) at both the GreenZebra and The Drawing Room next week, Wed and Thurs respectively. Both are great restaurants here in Chicago. The difference is that at ZED451 I would be cooking exclusively tableside right in front of the guests and at the other two it would be a regular cook back in the kitchen. GreenZebra is a vegetarian restaurant and The Drawing Room is contemporary american (as is ZED451); all three are fine dining places and would be great to work at. GreenZebra actually called while I was filling out paperwork at ZED451 and the Drawing Room called today. It will be good to go into both places and work; then I can decide between the three which I would prefer to do. I want to learn as much as possible while working so that is kind of going to dictate where I decide to end up. Although I would feel bad not keeping the job I just took if one of the other places turns out better, but I have a feeling I will just stay at ZED451 anyway. I think I will love cooking and interacting with the customers. We will see what happens in the end, LOL.
Not a whole lot going on otherwise. I am excited to have a routine and be able to have regular friends in the city and be able to work out. I will miss not being able to jump on a plane and just fly somewhere, but I haven't really done that too much lately anyway so its all good.
I don't think there is really too much other than that. Just enjoying life and living it to the fullest!
I also have two stage's (stage is a french word...basically you work free for a day like an interview) at both the GreenZebra and The Drawing Room next week, Wed and Thurs respectively. Both are great restaurants here in Chicago. The difference is that at ZED451 I would be cooking exclusively tableside right in front of the guests and at the other two it would be a regular cook back in the kitchen. GreenZebra is a vegetarian restaurant and The Drawing Room is contemporary american (as is ZED451); all three are fine dining places and would be great to work at. GreenZebra actually called while I was filling out paperwork at ZED451 and the Drawing Room called today. It will be good to go into both places and work; then I can decide between the three which I would prefer to do. I want to learn as much as possible while working so that is kind of going to dictate where I decide to end up. Although I would feel bad not keeping the job I just took if one of the other places turns out better, but I have a feeling I will just stay at ZED451 anyway. I think I will love cooking and interacting with the customers. We will see what happens in the end, LOL.
Not a whole lot going on otherwise. I am excited to have a routine and be able to have regular friends in the city and be able to work out. I will miss not being able to jump on a plane and just fly somewhere, but I haven't really done that too much lately anyway so its all good.
I don't think there is really too much other than that. Just enjoying life and living it to the fullest!