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I have a unique view on this I believe. I'm originally a chef(in fact in back to it now). A lot of the comments I see align with how myself and my apprentices
by marak830 10y ago
I have a unique view on this I believe. I'm originally a chef(in fact in back to it now).
A lot of the comments I see align with how myself and my apprentices have grown.
It starts with fear. Being scared of screwing up. Then comes the first epitome. I can do this.
Then the new scare, shit I don't know this, I'll fake it, overcompensate and assume I'll pick it up, or research it quickly enough to look like I know what I'm talking about.
After that(eventually) it's acceptance that I have more to learn.
For me, as a chef, it was a few, months ago.
(Well it was the 3rd time honestly). I don't know everything.
Now to put this in perspective, I have been head chef of 5 star restaurants in Australia. Some of the best of the best.
My realisation point was finding out someone who could hands down push out pans dishes both faster and better than I could.
I have been doing this since I was 16, and my parents were chef's . I assumed I knew everything.
Since then, I have spent a lot of time watching them do what they do, and how they do it.
Now I'm an amateur programmer, I can do it PHP, MySQL, c# and vb.net, and I spend a lot of time googling, but I think the two industries cross in base learning more than price expect.
The point when we are challenged, not by difficult jobs, but by people who know more about that subject, is when we grow. If we take it objectively.
If we assume our training is bad, or were not good, we fail.
That's my 2 yen
- gm-conspiracy 10y agoAs a chef, how many hours a week do you work? When you come home after working, do you prepare your own food?
- marak830 10y agoI try to not work during my splits. So I'll work 940am until 2pm, go home or the gym until 5pm then finish at either 10pm or 11pm. 6 days a week. So about 56 per week. I try to take every second Sunday off. During my split I'll prepare my wife's dinner, (cooking it if I can ahead of time), on my days off I enjoy cooking for friends and small parties.
- foopod 10y agoI love this, you know you are truly passionate about something when you quite happily spend every waking minute of the day doing it.
- marak830 10y agoI realised I was when I took 4 years off. Man it's great to be back. On a side note, I love how easy it is to support your passion now. Between Instagram, blogs, YouTube and ebooks, I'm making combinations I would never have dreamed of when I was an apprentice.