Hating What You Love

[aadroma]

So I was watching Top Chef Just Desserts last night, and a woman left of her own volition, and she described how her love was cooking, but under the circumstances of the competition, she was starting to hate what she loved. As she explained her stance and packed up to leave, I realised how much I could empathise with her

Comments

[theotherqpc]

that's precisely why i left the restaurant industry - it took away my love of cooking and replaced it with frustration and insecurity.

i love working with chocolate because it's a different skillset and very precise when it comes to temperature and technique. but more importantly, i don't love it. i appreciate chocolate, respect it, and like it, but it's not something i'm passionate about. because of that, i'm able to maintain an emotional distance that helps me keep my sanity when things get difficult.

[beefybear]

When you get the answers let me know! ^_^ I know how you're feeling on this. I have experienced a similar thing with audio engineering.

[ciddyguy]

I have been thinking on this a little since I first saw this last night and that is that if you love cooking but find restaurant work just kills it, it's not the cooking part that's the problem, it's dealing with all the other people, the egos and such and if you don't own your own place and can have creative control over what you do then what's the point

[kevynjacobs]

> Once I got to college, I took a bunch of programming courses, and the more I did it, I realised that in this kind of an environment, I HATED it.

Been there, done that, bought the T-Shirt. I only lasted 2 quarters in the computer science program, before washing out.

In a similar vein: I used to love coding for the WWW. I was an early pioneer in web-based newspaper design. Loved it.

But after 10 years, one day, I found I just couldn't do it anymore. I had come to HATE it.