/ck/ - Food & Cooking

I drop university when I was 24 to become a cook and after years of wading through shit I ended up becoming a pastry chef. I am still not happy with where I am at 32 but I dont regret dropping my studies. The total amount of "cooking school" I actually did was something like 200 hours of a pastry-specific course that had 6 months of actual work attached to it before an exam: no amount of school can ever prepare you to the stuff you actually have to deal with on the job. I think the right amount of time for someone to become truly competent as a cook or a baker is about 3 years of working every day and I dont think there is a school that prepare you enough.

Schools are nice if you are going to work in daddy's business and you are somehow able to skip all the "wading through shit" phase and just start your own business: people who are successful this way end up in television or doing youtube content or taking pretty pictures of their food.

2020 being the shitshow that it was kinda fucked over all my plans to move up a little: lost a couple of collegues, business is just very slowly picking up only now and I'm stuck doing the most basic shit because the owners can't afford to pay more employees. I am not happy with how things are going here I am sure that I'm not going to find a better job any time this year and it sucks even more because honestly I have no right to complain, still actually having a job and not even far from home.