/ck/ - Food & Cooking

>doesn't want the darma

>>16188374
Quit. I did and now I have a comfy job from home that pays almost double and nobody yells at me for not folding a burrito right

>>16188665
This

if I was a poorfag line cook I wouldn't. I would rather live in an abandoned dumpster

>>16188374
I have no idea why people feel like this is them. I sweet talked my way into arguing transferrable skills from being a line cook to working in University Administration. I went from making $9/hr to being salaried at $60k literally overnight.

>>16188762
Your experiences and opportunities are not universal.

>>16188775
Of course not. But my experiences and opportunities WERE identical to my coworkers at the time who are still stuck working in kitchens nearly 10 years later.

>>16188374

Apparently lying on your resume is something everyone does. Do that.

>>16188762
>University Administration
that $60k would be more beneficial to society if it was lit in a bum barrel to keep a couple homeless people warm for 10 minutes

>>16188788
It does work if you try it enough as long as the job isn't too high level. there's bound to be some lazy hr cunt or whoever the fuck that will just take it at face value if you word it good enough

>>16188800
cool but I still made 60k and developed skills that got me far away from working a shitty dead end line cook job the rest of my life
I now do contract business consulting, work from home, set my own hours, and make stupid money. Working at the university allowed me to get two degrees for free.

>>16188788
>>16188816
in the words of a former bro boss when I was an intern for IT, "if you put it on a resume I'll back you up, but once you work for them it's all up to you to back yourself up"

>>16188823
>Working at the university allowed me to get two degrees for free.
>anyone who works at a university gets unlimited free education
extreme doubt

>>16188874
Special treatment if you know the right people, it's plausible.

>>16188874
nearly any private university provides free or near free tuition for employees on any level
most public universities offer steep discounts for employees on any level
this is a known benefit to working at a university in the US
the fact that you not only didn't know this, but disbelieved it without even looking it up is why you will always be poor, working as a line cook until you die of stomach cancer at the age of 63

>>16188374
By energy drinks you mean speed and coke bumps in the bathroom, right?

who here /dishpit/?

>>16188823
What is stupid money

>>16189018
= no money

>>16188834
I like your ex boss, I'd want to work for a guy like that. You are blessed.

How old is too to go back to school? Can you even make connections at 30+ years? i've seen the memes about old people going back to school but I haven't heard anything about success rate.

>>16188989
What do you watch/listen to while you work?

>>16188902
I think you are full of shit. I did actual useful research for the university and worked as a secretary for one of the professors in my degree and was a TA and got maybe a reduction on class/lab fees. You can't sweet-talk your way into an administrative position without lying on your resume about your experience and having a degree.

Only other way you got away with it is daddy or daddy's friend giving you that job.

You can get away with this for so long, anon. Eventually you will get figured out, fired, and blacklisted making it hard to find any job in that same field.

i like my line cook job. it suits me as a solitary autist.
>go to work, no annoying american faggots, just mexican tweakers, don't have to disclose anything about myself, just work well and make occasional dick jokes
>consolodated work and social life
>enjoy quiet home life because everything else is at work
>contrary to wagie memes, pay is decent for a single person. have enough saved to live very comfortably, take time off of work to travel, invested enough to retire. job offers 401K and health insurance

line cooking has been good to me. i forget that there are people making $14/h at chipotle who are working in the same field, economic and social class as me, and that's what people think of when they think 'line cooks'. If you can get a job at a fine dining place that does high volume, you can make a career out of it. One of my tournants came directly from Hooter's. Another really good chef i worked for was a Romanian guy who couldn't read. Anyone can get these jobs, you just have to dedicate yourself to improving and learning. the credentials to become a successful food worker are pretty lax.

>>16189133
And you can always move up the ladder. If you're 40 and still just a line cuck, then you truly fucked up somewhere. I worked my way up until I was a bona fide chef, and from there started my own restaurant. Survived the lockdowns only to finally sell off the place, because my old crew used their gibs to better themselves and I couldn't find anyone to replace them, which was fine because I just got a food truck and I've been taking home far more in profit than I ever did with the old store, and I've been able to get away from the administrative side of things and go back to just cooking for fun. I open and close whenever and wherever I feel like it, I make whatever I feel like making and I always do a lot of business. I do miss making dick jokes with the boys.

>>16189111
they probably do better because they know what they want out of the education
the vast majority of undergrads have no fucking idea why they’re there, so it’s not a great surprise they either drop out or graduate with a shit degree and loads of debt

>>16189114
common filth radio

>>16188989
Being a dishwasher is one of the greatest jobs a young man can have. money in your pocket, can get any drug you fancy, freedom from responsibility.

>>16188665
>Quit. I did and now I have a comfy job from home that pays almost double and nobody yells at me for not folding a burrito right
How?

>>16189107
he really was anything you'd want to have in a good boss - we weren't friends or anything, but a good mentor who'd give me interesting things to work on as an intern to help me get skills to get a real job somewhere

>>16188374
Then don't.

>>16188787
The lines mean stress, not age.

>>16189744
Not to mention getting Skelly off of amphetamines and not wanting to go near a kitchen when it's time to go home

>>16188874
>>16188884
>hey Anon, do you want to work here at the university for 20 hours a week that literally pays for everything?
>Jobs that may be a complex as updating a department's facebook for chairs or grouping papers for professors
>3/4 hours spent studying

every swinging dick reading this thread should take advantage of free education if $9/hr or 3 PT jobs is the only solution. By visiting an Albanian Small Arms Smuggling Ring, you probably are smart enough for a basic undergrad degree that you can use to step over roasties and the 45 year old assistant manager at the Kroger or Walmart.

t. graduate student with guaranteed job after school at $45K or shop around for $60-$100K while working on PhD.

AMA like a redd*t faggot and I can post info. Can't help Yuros though, only USA.

>also joining military to pay for college is the dumbest fucking thing to do. You don't have to pay if use resources wisely.

>>16189111
>My Capstone professor started college at 36 as a freshman
>Retired last year at 70 as PhD professor that has written a few books

it's never too late Anon. Have set goals, accredited state school, and don't pick meme degree. Even if you are in a state with stupid tuition, move to good state with cheaper and more available schools. You will have a 1 year residency before considered "in-state", but if you would be starting out as a true Freshman, you may as well move to new state, get job line-cooking, and go to Community College to pickup core classes for pennies on dollar while waiting and working.

>I can't because.......
Fuck you. Nobody is stopping you.

>>16189486
a college degree and a modicum of intelligence, two things you clearly lack

>>16189744
Not visible due to being skinnyfat

>>16188374
Lmao
Make my steak au poivre with black pepper and shut up wagie

>>16188780
were there 10+ identical university admin jobs available for your frineds at the time, or was there a limited amount?

Summer season is upon us. How understaffed and fucked are you?

>>16188989
most based part time job

>>16188989
I will always have fond memories of working /dishpit/. A great way for a teenager to pocket extra money and to flirt with all the cute waitresses.

>>16189111
I'm almost 32 and started school again last August. Granted, it's one of those online schools but my employer covers all the costs as long as I don't fail 3 or more classes. So I figured a free degree was better than just a high school diploma or putting myself in student debt. It's not like I'll ever get a job where the name of my university will matter anyway.

It's never too late, anon. I'm actually glad I waited. If I did start college back when I first thought about it, I'd have a degree in a field I kinda don't care about and would be $100k+ in debt.

>>16188902
>this is a known benefit to working at a university in the US
ah, so US university entrance criteria are a complete and total scam since any punter that decides to clean harvards toilets just gets to go for free. thanks for admitting that US education is a sham.

>>16189312
How's the food truck game now that everyone is used to ordering out from the lockdowns? My buddy was trying to start one with me, but I'm wondering if I missed a bullet or an opportunity.

>>16188989
Yeah no. Not comfy at all. You're either coming in to do a 3 hour lunch rush shift where you're still being run ragged (and thus making no money essentially), or you're slogging through a whole day of steady work, with a massive influx here and there during rushes.
Doing dishpit for a buffet is a whole other level, too.

>>16188989
I used to plonge a little. it's not bad work for a bottom rung thing

>>16190665
plonged my way through college. sometimes wish i was still there plonging away, not a care in the world.

>>16189791
It's always nice to hear how someone supported themselves in between those steps

>>16190876
You can always fast until you meet the weight requirements to join the U.S. Air Force.

>>16188374
titties, beer, guns, the frontier of space, nature - shit like that

>>16188374
To glean what you came to clean from this physical illusory experience.

>>16188787
>>16188374
Don't work in the kitchen but work in a restaurant as a busser/runner. This is way too fucking accurate for some of the line cooks I know, the rest are just Mexicans who love playing mariachi music

>>16188374
I startet working full time at 15 years. Now im 30 and realize this is not the job i wanna do until im old.
Now i learn landscaping and it feels like vacation. These ppl here have no idea what stress is.

>>16188989
Did it for 6 years at every different level, from working with coked out Mexicans to managing dishpits and dishies in fine dining. Good money, and everyone puts their kids gloves on for you so you dont walk out and they have to do dishes, but get your money and get out. Dont be the 45 year old in the dishpit or on the line with 15 years of experience still making the same as the dishies.

Get your money, get out

>>16189114
Miles Davis, The Exploited, Tchaikovsky and Rick James mostly

>>16193123
this, take the busboy pill

>>16190025
overstaffed with a bunch of new retards
but not in a bad way. means i get paid $21/h to fuck off, chill with the production mamis, keep the walk ins looking good, cook crew, and then look chingon when some stoned dingus goes in the weeds and i get him out by fixing a broken sauce and clearing his board when literally all i did all day was fuck around in the freezer, scrape some scum off of the floor behind the meat cage while bullshitting with the company engineer, butcher some ducks and stand around watching 40lbs of pilaf cook in a tilt skillet for forty minutes. oh and then an hour or two of OT helping dish get out because for some reason we only hire geriatric sudaca dwarfs to run dish at a place that does 700 covers in a dinner service

bunch of downtrodden faggots living the self-fulfilling prophecy
probably work under 40 hours a week and stressed cause they spent their meager wages on pills, alcohol and weed
learn to like being understaffed, the time flies and being overstaffed sucks
but your job isn't half as hard as you make it out to be and you're only acting stressed cause you want the front of house, also pillheads, to think you're rugged or some shit

>>16194662
Good goy
Im sure the bossman loves the likes of you

>>16194662
>cause you want the front of house, also pillheads, to think you're rugged or some shit
hahahaha the pariah line cook/chef
boh acting like they just survived an air raid and foh being like 'wew, made my rent tonight. feet hurt. i don't work again until next thursday, let's go to the bar' and boh trashing them for it. look man, how about this: you're dumb enough to be a line cook, how about you try putting on a tie and waiting tables. but being a sleep deprived vindictive junkie is worth that righteousness

>>16194714
Is waiting tables hard anon?
Are you a waitress at Shoneys?

>>16194720
is waiting tables at shoney's hard? do you wait tables at gwenneth paltrow's house?

>>16194671
nah I put that jew fuck in his place too. I'm unemployed

>>16188374
I got out of that life, went to school, became an engineer and life still sucks as much as ever.
Trying to find tge courage to actually just kms.

>>16194662
you have never worked in a kitchen.

>>16196059
Cooked in the boy scouts, 3 years at subway, 7 years in a kitchen. 5 of those 7 years I worked 80 hours a week. It's not a hard job, cooks are just drug addicted attention whores and drama queens

>>16196082
nobody believes you, tough guy.

>>16196095
you sound like a guy that started cooking in boy scouts and cooked with mum at home and watched his favourite celebrity chef growing up and had this dream of becoming a chef "just like him!" and then, when you finished high school you said to yourself "great i can finally quit my part time job at subway and become a real cook!" and then maybe started as a dishy and eventually worked on a line for like <6 months before getting out because he couldnt keep up or handle getting cursed at and now spends his time telling everyone how he was an amazing cook who worked 80 hours a week for 5 years but "nah I wasnt like the rest of them, theyre all useless faggots"

and you know what?
>learn to like being understaffed, the time flies and being overstaffed sucks
this is what gives you away. I know you think being understaffed is good because it actually gave you an opportunity to do things and had the added benefit of seeming like you didnt have to stay there getting exposed and bullied for so long whereas when you were overstaffed everyone else with greater ability pushed you out of the way and overshadowed you while you stood around with your thumb in your ass looking like a retard.

>>16196117
was meant for >>16196082

>>16189956
Of course no reply. He got burned.

>>16188989
Didn't realize how good I had it in the pit before becoming a linecook. Jfc

>>16196117
nah nothing like that lol
and I definitely worked 80 hours a week for the past 5 years
we always ran a skeleton crew and people would whine about being understaffed, until we did schedule a lot of people for crazy nights like superbowl and then they're all "why is there so many people here why am i here can i go home this is stupid"
no, none of what you posted is me, I know how to function overstaffed or understaffed though it did take me a little while to figure that part out it's not hard to just keep a positive attitude and be a cog in the wheel. Kitchen work is all about attitude
What actually inspired me to get into kitchens was hearing my buddy talk about kitchen life all the time, I wanted to experience it so that's why I settled for Subway when I found myself needing a job even though up until that point in my life I had no intention of working with food at all, not for a wage. He always had crazy stories to tell and bragged about his skills and the kitchen politics always sounded pretty brutal. I wasn't at a great place in life at that point in time either

At the restaurant I started as a driver and I started doing dishes and helping out even though I didn't have to. Sometimes the owner would throw me $10, sometimes he wouldn't. The food was really good so I soaked up as much knowledge as I could. A short order cook decided to do heroin one night and sent the boss a 4 page text apologizing about how he was gonna miss his shift so I took his job over. Became the "manager" pretty quickly but it was really just a title. Leader, sure, but didn't do much managing besides doing the food order and taking accountability for a bunch of shit that I didn't have control over. The place was purgatory and I gave it everything I had and I'm glad it's over. Bought chainlink in 2018 and I have time to think about my next move in life. My last day there I broke my hand. I'm all healed up from that and I'm keeping busy. Reacquainting myself with computers and math

>>16196915
yeah I didnt read any of this

>>16196920
That's nice. I almost didn't respond to the dumbass but, you know, a scout is courteous

>>16196924
>I almost didnt respond
>posts a massive wall of coping text
ok lol

>>16196929
>doesn't read the comment thread
>responds for the fuck of it
glad you're having a good night :^)

>>16188376
> Becomes so self aware of dharma that it actually effects you more

>>16188374
Grow up, stop posting this reddit doomer shit.

>>16197186
>4chan meme
>reddit starts using it
>hurr durr stop posting reddit shit
kys faggot

>>16197205
This shit was never good. Kill yourself faggot zoomer.

>>16197228
t. contrarian autist

>get the chance to meet a lot of cute girls
>but the majority of the girls interested in me are high school girls
why

>>16197232
t. manchild

>>16197310
>he posted on 4channel
lol

>>16197298
Younger women don't know why they shouldn't be interested in you. Older women do.

>>16197360
but if you act fast enough you can sex them before they nope out of there

>>16188775
There is no such thing as universal experiences or universal opportunities

>>16197360
you're probably right anon :^)

>>16188376
>>16197006
good thing that shit is only effective if you choose for it to be
whatever you believe in you will experience, until you realize that you don't need to believe in anything

>>16197333
dilate

Oddly enough, one of the more talented grad students in math who I ever knew worked as a night cook at a 24 hour diner years ago.

>>16188374
I used to be a line cook. The owner let me use the equipment to make dinner for myself which really meant letting me experiment in ways I never could at home. Turned that into a better paying job in a better restaurant. Made it to sous chef before I burned out/pissed off by the abuses of the head chef. Now I use my skills at home for the family and as a personal chef on the odd side gig.

Every job isn't just about the money but what you do with it. If you have no interest in cooking and just making the money find another job and see if you get interested in that.

>>16188374
Am I supposed to feel bad for you limp dicks?
Get a better job loser

>>16188780
Pure luck, possibly some genetics, and circumstance. People who think everyone is born equal with equal opportunities are stupid. That is the lie perpetuated by the upper class to blame middle class for staying where they are, while others make billions and do nothing with it.

>>16197799
why are you here?

>>16188374
missing
>servers put in employee meals right before close
>servers stealing food causing recooks upon recooks
>takeaway putting in orders pretending theyre real customers and not their fatasses wanting desserts all the time

>>16188989
>when someone annoys you so you stall on their dishes just barely long enough to make them squirm

>>16188989
i get too pissed off on dish to be on dish

>>16196915
nope

>>16197830
Why are you?

>>16197899
because im a cook. why come to ck and just chuck shit constantly if youre just some fag that makes shitty food at home occasionally?

>>16188787
This was my life before going to college to study fucking math. I want to go back.

>>16197799
>Am I supposed to feel bad
op is just a meme that people who have been line cooks will understand, youre not supposed to feel anything.

>>16188374
hey bros how do i stop being mad about employee food and tedious items i need to make? i like cooking, i like making food, but employee food and tedious items just make me feel like im being attacked i guess
i dont want to be mad

>>16188374
Build a propane-powered food cart and go into business for yourself. What is it with Millennials and Zoomers being incapable of envisioning themselves being self-sufficient?

>>16198051
>What is it with Millennials and Zoomers being incapable of envisioning themselves being self-sufficient?
>What is with Millennials and Zoomers being employed by someone else?

You mean like 99.9% of the population? You stupid fucking faggot?

>>16190483
>having options means it’s a sham
Tell me how I know you’re a bootlicker that doesn’t have the capacity for free will

>>16194192
I can smell the beans and salsa emanating from this post

>>16194088
I can smell the beans and salsa emanating from this post

>>16197298
>has prime tenderloin falling into his lap
>complains
Ngmi

>>16198066
>durr you have to be an employee
The reason so many people work for others is because they’re risk-averse retards that enjoy wallowing in self-pity. If your life is miserable, you have nobody to blame but yourself.

>>16197996
Let it go and realize it's just part of the job. The issue the people in these threads is the idea that you're not a "real cook" unless you have enough things to complain about. They wallow in their own self pity without actually doing anything to make their lives better.

As far as "tedious items" go, its only tedious if you make it tedious. Its often a garde manger complaint that they feel like they're doing nothing but bottom bitch work day in day out and that they aren't getting anything out of it. But most of them fail to realize that its the tedious shit thats easiest to improve upon. You should take everything you work on as a challenge to yourself to improve. How finely can I get my knifework, how consistant, how fast? Shit like that is how you better yourself and make yourself stand out from your coworkers.

>>16198285
>The reason so many people work for others is because they’re risk-averse retards
no, its actually because everybody working for themselves is extremely inefficient and is not how advanced economies are structured.

>>16198427
>you MUST work for the GDP Jew if you want to be fulfilled in life!
Ngmi

>>16198502
>moving goalposts
>making things up
grim post chief. markets trend toward efficiency by their own accord. its not efficient to have ten thousand of the same or similar small business. imagine ten thousand hardware stores in your city. doesnt work. thats why restaurants have one of the highest failure rates out of any business -- there are too many and they are all the same. same with coffee shops.

big businesses absorb smaller businesses, and people work for the big businesses that remain. thats what makes them big. i literally cant even imagine what its like being such a braindead fucking retard that you think the reason most people work for others is because of "risk-aversion". what a complete fucking absolute buffoon you are.

>>16198511

>>16198521
haha le ebin based troll!! xD

>>16188989
one of the worst jobs i've ever had was dishpit

>>16198511

>>16197205
yeah we all know Wojak was originally a 4chan thing, but nowadays, especially the -oomer wojaks, are 100% reddit tourists
you yourself are a reddit tourist if you believe otherwise

>>16197996
you are the exact reason that i used to order fucked up things for lunch when i was working foh
seeing you dumbfuck cooks get upset always made me laugh, always telling me they wouldn't do it but doing it anyway because its your job
to be fair though you boh cunts are pretty cool at the end of the day, lighten up though

>>16198759

>reddit
reddit
>reddit
reddit
>reddit
reddit
>reddit
reddit
>reddit
holy fucking shit would everyone shut the fuck up about reddit this and thats reddit and this is reddit and reddit reddit reddit. reddit lives rent free in your thick fucking ugly head.

>>16198773
take your meds, schizo

>>16198759
>Wojak was originally a 4chan thing

have a stage at a michelin star restaurant this week, wish me luck brahs

>>16198803
oh, so it is reddit?

>>16198816
its from some polish chan or something

>>16198816

>>16198822
so extended 4chan thing, sure
defending -oomers meme's is still retarded though

>>16188374
Worked two summers in the kitchen at the frying station, arms still full of burn marks.

Had kinda fun tho with my crew.

>>16198830
entering a thread just to say something is reddit is pretty retarded too

>>16197186
Shut up retard faggot

>>16189761
explain?

>>16198830
as if some faggot who hasn't been around long enough to know where wojak comes from can mandate what memes are fun or not. fuck off retard.

>>16198973
you're right, i wasn't around for the inception and popularization of wojak, that being said however, neither were you, and i at least predate the 2016 election invasion
wojaks are 4chan culture, -oomer isn't, and i wouldn't even call wojaks GOOD culture these days either
>>16198852
i entered the thread for food and food service discussion, not my fault some faggots are defending -oomer memes and modern day wojaks like they themselves are from reddit

>>16199020
i have unironically been here since 2008. i dont say this with pride. also you talk like an insufferable fag

>>16199020
>neither were you
i've been here, sadly, since 2006

>>16199020
>-oomer isn't
since when? coomer meme started here like 3 years ago, get a fucking grip loser

>>16199020
>these days
get the fuck out of here lol

>>16199020

>>16188374
Some real shit there

>>16199020
You are by far the most reddit poster in this thread. Quit trying to fit in.

>>16189312
coo story bro

>-oomer memes

Should I get a job in the kitchen if I want to learn to cook?

>>16199089
no you can do that in your own kitchen

>>16199020
>blue board user
>crying about reddit

>>16199020
you are a really big loser

>>16198855
I bet you still lurk the boomer zoomer threads on /wsg/ you fucking nigger.

>>16199031
>>16199032
sure you are, everyones an oldfag :)

>>16199294
where did i say im an oldfag? 2008 isnt oldfag, newfag

>bread baker
>must be the only bakery in the city where we bakers aren't worked to death and have a set in stone
>sometimes even leave early
>8 hours tops of work
>can chill the rest of the day
God I love my job

I lived this life. Moved up to a management position after a couple of years which was even more hell. And this was while going to school

Now I work an analyst job from home making more than twice as much. I have nightmares about losing my job and having to go back to the kitchen. I respect people who are passionate enough about food to live that life, but fuck, you've got to be at least a little bit crazy

>needed money
>applied to loads of places, eventually got a job as a commis chef at a place thats just opening up
>only one there without more than 10 years of experience so I feel like a retard everytime I ask how to do simple shit
>lied about being finished with university so ill have to quit in a month or 2
>2 other people have already quit, one will be leaving in a few months
>keep giving me more responsiblity to cover the lost staff
>Have panic attacks every night thinking about how when I quit its going to fuck everything up

>>16196915
Based i went from chef to millionaire cos of link lol

>>16188989
Had two dish jobs. One was peak comfy, didn't have much work, free food, cute waitresses, and bants with the cooks. Second was hell because the management was retarded.

>>16199020
yikes

>>16201331
Me too. Had a shit one at a function place for a few months first. High turnover and permanently understaffed. Literally went through a new disho every other week. Lunch rushes were absolute hell, would have plates stacked up all over the floor.
Just moved to a new town for college and got a comfy job at a restaurant/diner, great because I can just zone out for entire shifts and chat with the waitresses.

>>16188374
I own a food cart shit is so cash
biggest problem is local regulations

don't take shit from anyone
get to cook the food I like
have days off if you find the guy person to work with

>>16189312
>And you can always move up the ladder.
This. The younger you are the more likely you are to get promotions actually. Of course you won't get to the top when you're young, but companies want good employees to stay and motivate others to do good work. If you just show interest, make an extra effort, you will be compensated. And maybe you're unlucky and don't get a promotion you think you deserved, you can quit and tell your new employer that you weren't allowed to grow, they'll eat that shit up.

>>16190608
doordash, grub, uber eats is free marketing m8

only bad thing is that they take your tips
to-go's are poppin tho

>>16189761
A 45k job is not worth the time investment you've put in unless it comes with some pretty hefty benefits or fast advancement opportunities. That's less than I made as a personal trainer, and I dropped out of highschool at 14.

>>16188989
>who here /dipshit/?

get fucked wagies

>>16204326
post some 2hu if you're a truNEET and no a pepe in a blanket does not count

>>16204332
not the other anon but how does posting some forgotten animu girls prove that someone is a neet?
i've been one since i was 16 almost a decade ago and i never gave two shits about this waifufaggotry

>>16191156
This, the indentured mercenary class is the easiest way out of poverty.

>>16204352
2hu is not an anime but their fans were the only creative NEETs I've seen here. My post was a really dumb one off drunkpost and should not be taken seriously. Hope this clears things up

>>16204379
are they still like that? and what exactly do you mean by creative?

>>16204379
I am nouveau NEET

>>16204391
Not really (most probably went to Gensoukyou by now). By creative I mean the funposting and OC and general sincerity for a real fan culture without any corporate influence but like I said I'm drunk and I can probably be proven wrong. Have a good night anon

>>16204411
oh so just one of the good ol internet communities.
my questions were genuine btw, gn

Just leave bro lol

https://youtu.be/pP9qPEHEQTo

>>16204078
$45K guaranteed with superb benefits plus retirement in my state is good due to low COL. Also 70% of total college debt covered for a 5 year employment condition within the state. Moving back to where I lived without a minimum BA/BS meant 20 hour max at $8/hr or 40+ OT at $10/hr at a resort.

You are right depending on location/social connections. Otherwise, having that silly little paper opens a lot of doors in Flyoverland.

>>16204361
Thats so fuckin weird

>>16189783
this

>>16204352
been posting since i was 14 in 2004 anon, basically you either just stay for the bants & laughs and enjoy the last bastion of the "old" (i.e. pre-social media) internet or you become a pathetic doomer for whom this is the last vestige of their existence and you end up taking it way too seriously. don't be the latter

>>16204078
45k is not bad for someone right out of university in my opinion, yeah you could do better but it's like living as royalty if you are a broke-ass student beforehand, with room to grow

>>16198948
About what specifically?

The gubmint has nearly unlimited funds if you want to pursue your first college degree. Even moreso if you are a poorfag. You apply for a FAFSA, see what they will pay and go from there.

It's stupid to go straight to university as a true Freshman. Go to a 2 year community college. It will still be paid for, you will have to take the same courses if at university, but the tution is about 10% cheaper. Going full time will give you some grants, and you will still have time to work a PT gig for a couple years.

You then transfer in as a Junior at a 4-year institution where you actually start working on your degree. No _______101 courses. You can then stay in the dorms like a moron or take your college bucks and get an apartment. You apply for jobs on campus, and you get even more perks like tuition reimbursement. Federal Work Study also pays where you literally work and study. Balancing school and work is easier when it's all intertwined and line cook at a university kitchen basically means you eat free every day.

After two years of working and studying, you graduate with a BS/BA. You probably have $20-$30K of debt if you went CC/Associates first and go to a mid-tier state school.

You now have a stupid piece of paper that opens doors across the US. Maybe you use it to go teach Engrish in Nipponland or all the other shit that gets posted here. College (in the US) is a scam, but there are enough resources for anyone who wants to leave the kitchen for good for a stable career is only stopped by themselves.

>>16206212
*Tuition is about 80% cheaper, not 10%

>>16197370
>There is no such thing as universal experiences or universal opportunities
Yes there are.

Taking a piss is a universal experience.

Jerking off is a universal opportunity.

>>16206130
the people who take this site seriously do it probably because this is their main online community and found their discord friends here. luckily hating chats (despite this site almost being one especially if you don't count the archives) the sites where i really feel at home are forums.
hbu anon, is this the only community you frequent nowadays?

>>16189111
You don't need connections (depending on the field). You just gotta apply to the right company that won't mind hiring a person of your age with your resume. My first job was at a tech company that specialized in hiring people of non-traditional backgrounds that showed potential and then underpaying them, but the experience I got there got me into a job making $100k a year 5 years later. YMMV

Fuck servers. Man, the amount of times I've seen some jackoff on his phone when he's supposed to be folding utensils (the easiest job in the world) or in the linen closet while I'm working my ass off. Or the dumb whores up in front laughing it up and standing around doing nothing.

>>16204088
Lmao thought the same

>>16206276
all of my communities fragmented into nothing or shut down entirely. reddit is tolerable for niche topics but it inevitably makes me roll my eyes at least 3x a day. i fucking hate what social media did to the internet.

>>16199020
ewww gtfo newfag

>>16188989
Dish is great. People bring me dishes then leave.

>>16188374
i ask myself this question on a daily basis

>>16188989
On break right now

>>16189114

acid house

>>16188374

>get to work all day with people I love + get along with
>constant validation from being a vital part of the team
>get to make people happy with what i do

why die, shit is cash

>>16194637
your kitchens are similar to mine. i work at a very successful casino but i'm only a prep cook. so i'm the retard working with the tilt skillets and kettles. very comfy job though, great benefits. worked for years as a waiter/bartender and i grew tired of people

This thread is /kc/ tier

>>16190025
I'm FoH but both us and BoH are understaffed and fed-up.
Our turnover is so high because our retarded owner treats each of our locations differently, our BoH starts with full medical benefits but only at $13/hour while at our other location they get that, vacation, and a start of $15/hour.
Summer is going to be painful, and I plan to leave around fall to go back to school full-time.

>>16198759
>Wojak was originally a 4chan thing
pretty sure it was Krautchan's thing...
is that place still around? I feel like a lot of the other chans are gone now...

>>16188989
Never the fuck again. The independence and being able to blast tunes is nice but god damn that is some dirty, thankless, miserable, low paying, shit ass work. Better than being a cook but that's not saying much.

>>16194662
>learn to like being understaffed, the time flies and being overstaffed sucks
This is kinda true but it still fucking sucks being understaffed, just for different reasons. Time may go by a lot faster but the work gets to be brutal.

>>16206212
you only get grants if your parents have low enough income, unless you are over 24 which thne the grants will be based solely on your income. That's how it is and I know it for a fact for PA at least.