> Sounds like software engineering job. It just happens to pay better It definitely isn't specific to working as a chef, and I didn't intend to imply it. My e

> Sounds like software engineering job. It just happens to pay better It definitely isn't specific to working as a chef, and I didn't intend to imply it. My experience of being (adjacent) to software dev is that actually a _lot_ of things change. I am solving different problems week by week. Learning new things, making new mistakes. Some of the bleakness was related to money though, and all of it was my personal experience. Bourdain covers it really well. There are people who love it. The Life. I was lucky enough to work briefly at a 2 Starred place and holy shit - they were working far harder than I ever had and loving it. It was working with them that really clarified for me that I had no future there, I didn't love it. I was just competent, not passionate. More Meandering Thoughts, not sure what my point is xD