/ck/ - Food & Cooking

[Anonymous No.10679548]

Are suicidal thoughts just a part of working in the food industry?

[Anonymous No.10679553]

part & parcel of living in any "developed" nation
what city do you live in
if you live in a city you're never going to be truly happy
don't blame jewb

[Anonymous No.10679556]

>>10679548
Life is soul crushing. Contemplations if suicide, funnily enough, are sometimes the only reminder that you’re actually alive

[quiche !!T2UdrWkLSWB No.10680940]

>>10679548
It is quite a direct conclusion of the modern problem, which is to say the necessity (for the vast majority of humans) of mundane and yet potentially transcendal work.
I want to kill myself maybe once a month nowadays, but feel like I couldn't be happier 9/10 days.

[Anonymous No.10681120]

>>10680940
even on /ck/ I can't escape persecution

[Anonymous No.10681122]

>>10679548
I'm pretty sure they're just a part of being awake.

[Anonymous No.10681129]

>>10679548
Your existence is more complex than survive-->reproduce. Suicidal thoughts are a byproduct of this along with wierd shit humans have like fetishes and hobbys.

[Anonymous No.10681144]

Once I started cooking professionally (originally just as a side thing) life started looking pretty bleak, which is why I drink.

[Anonymous No.10681150]

>>10681129
>Your existence is more complex than survive-->reproduce
i wish i was a mollusk or some other non-mammalian animal

[Anonymous No.10681151]

>>10679548

[Anonymous No.10681212]

>>10679548
What kind of horrific mental illness would drive you to work in the food industry?

[Anonymous No.10682450]

>>10679548
A pack a day keeps the depression away.

[Anonymous No.10682506]

line cooking the same thing, day after day while dealing with waitstaff is soul crushing.

I was lucky enough to work at a big conference center as a buffet cook. I got to cook different things every day and learn different dishes & techniques weekly. Also I didn't have to deal with waitstaff. Was pretty rewarding to see people enjoying the food. Having said that, forget about weekends off, and holidays off, if you want to work at a convention center.

[Anonymous No.10682888]

Dishbitch is the best job in the kitchen, prove me wrong.

[Anonymous No.10682924]

>>10679548
>Are suicidal thoughts just a part of working

Yes.

[Anonymous No.10682935]

>>10682888
at my restaurant, the pay is shit and most servers (and a lot of cooks, too) just pile shit back there without any consideration to order, e.g. like stacking plates correctly, but the dish guys get almost all the extra made food and other order fuckups since the chefs/managers don't want the FOH getting them

[Anonymous No.10682947]

>>10681150
>99% of life on this earth follows the basic formula of dont die for (period of time) and you get to join a massive orgy of other (You)s and die right after you nut or a day later right after you lay eggs
>You got to be the 1% that has to work towards mating
>Worse yet, you got to be the .001% of the 1% that has the most complex mating rituals on earth along with the capacity for existential horror

[Anonymous No.10682948]

>>10682506
>line cooking the same thing, day after day while dealing with waitstaff is soul crushing.
Don't worry, robot are on their way.
Robots will save the day.
In less than 2 years it will all be robot cooks/chefs.

[Anonymous No.10683032]

>>10681144
So why did you get into it? My life is already bleak because I'm unemployed with no real skills. I figure things can only go up from here, and if I can turn my interest in cooking into an employable skill at least I will fit in with all of the misfits and scumbags who work in commercial kitchens.

[Anonymous No.10683065]

>>10682947
fuck

[Anonymous No.10683356]

>>10682947
>anon is sad he won't die immediately after fucking
This is a bad thing how? At your rate you'll be immortal.

[Anonymous No.10683372]

>>10681212
Not OP but my depression has killed whatever ambition I had. I think I would be alright at professional cooking so I see it as a good way to support my drinking habit.

[Anonymous No.10683481]

>>10679548
No, you get it in other industries too, for instance all of them. Just fight it off, self-harm is for attention seeking teens

[Anonymous No.10683525]

>>10679553
>if you live in a city you're never going to be truly happy
This is true for most people. Yes, humans are social animals that like to be in big groups, but that's just too many damn people in too close an area for most people to not get stressed out about it even if they don't consciously notice it.

Cities are society's containment boards for people who can't function without a million other people around for one reason or another, don't go to them without good reason and don't stay there without an excellent reason.

[Anonymous No.10683588]

I'm really isolated at work and I also live alone.
I talk to my boss for about 5 minutes at the start of my shift and that's pretty much all the human interaction I have.
Even if I look at my phone the last received call or text message was months ago.
I think I like it this way.

[Anonymous No.10683617]

>>10683356
>laughingathisownjoke.bmp

[Anonymous No.10683625]

There are people who read Kitchen Confidential and get so pumped on the stories of debauchery and druggie chefs going down in flames only to rise from the ashes a phoenix, that they they think to themselves,
>FUCK YEA I WANNA BE A COOK
Some even actually go out and try it.
These people, more often than not, get eaten alive. Sort of like how guys watched Full Metal Jacket, got pumped on the basic training bantz or Animal Mother gunning down civs and said,
>FUCK YEA I'M JOINING THE MARINES
Some careers are meant to kill you if you get into them for the wrong reasons.

[Anonymous No.10683837]

>>10683625
So what do you think are the right reasons to become a cook? From what I hear a genuine love of cooking is the last reason why someone should do it professionally.

[Anonymous No.10684120]

>>10683837
infinite smoke breaks, name another job that lets you do that

[Anonymous No.10684127]

>>10683588
Do you need a hug anon?

[Anonymous No.10684184]

>>10684120
nah, he needs a fix

[Anonymous No.10684205]

>>10680940
>I want to kill myself maybe once a month nowadays

Funny. That's about how much I don't want to kill myself.

[Anonymous No.10684215]

Um... why does everyone hate cooking

[Anonymous No.10684223]

>>10684215
We don't have cooking. We hate cooking for a living. There is a very big difference.

[Anonymous No.10684225]

>>10682450
truer words have never been spoken

[Anonymous No.10684244]

>>10684215
I loved cooking. a long time ago.

[Anonymous No.10684335]

>>10679548
No. That's what life is like.

[Anonymous No.10684450]

I work at a pretty large catering kitchen and can confirm most people there seem suicidal sometimes

Especially the sous

[Anonymous No.10684472]

Is it that hard to rise from asshole slave cook to someone with actual responsibility and decent pay?
Seems to me this field does not really require any academics. Just decent time & people management. Maybe some accounting & legal knowledge if you want to open your own restaurant.

[Anonymous No.10684474]

>>10682450
until you develop copd, and emphysema

[Anonymous No.10684476]

>>10679548
I work in an industrial lodge and we work 12 hr days 21 days straight, doesn't seem like anyone is suicidal though. We are not supposed to drink while here but a lot do and some do blow but no one seems suicidal.

[Anonymous No.10684595]

>>10679548
The thing is, it shouldnt be like that. Anybody can have a good time cooking in nice home kitchen with some music or a movie. So, I submit that the working world is full of scummy owners and bosses who simply don't think about creating a comfortable long-term working environment for the employees. And this extends into other industries as well, and also extends into the customer experience.

[Anonymous No.10684602]

>>10683032
some people belong in a kitchen

[Anonymous No.10684608]

>>10684472
kitchens are one of the few places left where good worth ethic and independent research and practice will actually help advance your career

[Anonymous No.10684611]

>>10679548
Yup...left hospitality exactly for that reason,last job i had was 2nd chef at a retirement home the nurses placed bets on who would die next ....nasty bitches
Also id make lovely roast meats and veges, corned beef ,fish and it would all go into a blender to make a milkshake for the oldies to drink...yum hot fish milkshakes

[Anonymous No.10684626]

I work as a night manager, pizza cook. I choose this job BECAUSE of depression... I have anxiety and ocd, so I don’t have the balls/mindset to go in public most of the time. The night life is lax, pizza has low expectations, and I get paid a premium.
This being said, I’m typing this after 4 after work tall boys, as busy nights make for an urge to self medicate.
It’s welfare payday in leaf land as of 12am... Needless to say, I was running.

[Anonymous No.10684762]

>>10684127
(you)s are my hugs

[Anonymous No.10685053]

>>10679548
For the average bitch ass pansy, suicidal thoughts are part of everything they do, wether they are working in the food industry ot not.