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From the article and every other bit of info I hear, working as a chef sounds like a terrible career by most metrics: low pay/benefits, long hours, high stress,
by the__alchemist 5y ago
From the article and every other bit of info I hear, working as a chef sounds like a terrible career by most metrics: low pay/benefits, long hours, high stress, low job security.
- savanaly 5y agoThere's a deep love for cooking in many people, raising the de facto salary of being a chef. For the most devoted it raises it astronomically high. So competition drives down prices in the only way it can-- nominally and through intangibles like negative perks and job security. You can see at jobs where it's the opposite those same things are through the roof.
- gernb 5y agoI agree with this. There was an NPR piece https://www.npr.org/transcripts/15732097 https://www.npr.org/transcripts/15732097 Where a girl goes to Paris to learn to cook thinking it will be glamorous like the movie Sabrina and instead it's like military drilling to be efficient but even with all of that she says feeding people makes you feel like a god. I think the concept is similar for software engineering. Not feeling like a god but some people think "how could you possibly stare at a computer screen for so many hours a day. Sounds mind numbingly boring" where as to some software engineers it's the most creatively freeing environment there is and they thrive in it.
- elorant 5y agoMy dad used to work as a maitre at a five star hotel/restaurant some decades ago. Payment was excellent, but everything else was crap. I always remember him coming home beat from exhaustion. You spend too many hours standing up, the environment is always under pressure because everyone needs to be served in a limited time frame, you have to organize a myriad of people who are also overworked and exhausted, and on top of everything the kitchen per se is a very hostile place because you can really hurt yourself if you’re careless.