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10+ years ago when I worked in fancy kitchens we would every once in a while get a white collar guy (always a guy) interested in changing careers to something t

10+ years ago when I worked in fancy kitchens we would every once in a while get a white collar guy (always a guy) interested in changing careers to something they could be "passionate" about. I saw it work a couple times but never with tech people. We stopped even letting them try lol. They'd come in expecting to be in a position of authority, expecting us to be grateful for all the changes they'd immediately want to make to how we did things. To some extent this was also true of the other professionals. But they'd usually shake it once they got humbled by seeing up close how fast a good cook can actually shuck perfect oysters or just calmly handle the intensity of the line during dinner. Never saw a programmer adapt to it.

akskakskaksk 3y ago
One of my former coworkers is now a high-end chef after he abruptly quit the company I was working at. He's married now and he seems happy.
- giraffe_lady 3y ago
  It's cause he made all his money in tech first. It's a hard life otherwise.
silverquiet 3y ago
I never worked in a kitchen I'd remotely describe as fancy, but I've certainly worked a fast food kitchen or two. I know way better than to go to one looking for meaning; it'd strictly be more of a last-ditch paycheck thing for me at this point, and not an option I'd like to be forced into; that's for sure. Mostly I'm just disappointed that apparently we're determined to make humans toil in order to free up the robots to create art; I rather preferred the opposite vision.
- yjftsjthsd-h 3y ago
  > Mostly I'm just disappointed that apparently we're determined to make humans toil in order to free up the robots to create art; I rather preferred the opposite vision. Are we "determined" to do that, or did art just turn out to be vastly easier to automate than anything involving the manipulation of actual physical objects?

akskakskaksk 3y ago

One of my former coworkers is now a high-end chef after he abruptly quit the company I was working at. He's married now and he seems happy.

giraffe_lady 3y ago
It's cause he made all his money in tech first. It's a hard life otherwise.

silverquiet 3y ago

I never worked in a kitchen I'd remotely describe as fancy, but I've certainly worked a fast food kitchen or two. I know way better than to go to one looking for meaning; it'd strictly be more of a last-ditch paycheck thing for me at this point, and not an option I'd like to be forced into; that's for sure. Mostly I'm just disappointed that apparently we're determined to make humans toil in order to free up the robots to create art; I rather preferred the opposite vision.

yjftsjthsd-h 3y ago
> Mostly I'm just disappointed that apparently we're determined to make humans toil in order to free up the robots to create art; I rather preferred the opposite vision. Are we "determined" to do that, or did art just turn out to be vastly easier to automate than anything involving the manipulation of actual physical objects?