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Brutally honest answer? More money in Web dev. Also, i'm better at web dev. If you're going to become a chef prepare for a massive pay cut and the pay doesnt go
by TamDenholm 12y ago
Brutally honest answer? More money in Web dev. Also, i'm better at web dev. If you're going to become a chef prepare for a massive pay cut and the pay doesnt go up as high with seniority as web dev does. I can earn about £100k a year as a web dev (if i chose to work a full year, i don't) and a executive head chef in London would make around £40k a year and work AT LEAST 60 hours a week, you'd also need 8 - 10 years experience. A mid level chef with 3-4 years experience would make around £20k a year.
- pbhjpbhj 12y agoI hope you don't mind me asking, how did you transition? Did you take a course, were you already doing personal websites? What position did you take first, self-employed/sole-trader or with a firm? Who pays £100k pa, or is that self-employed? Thanks.
- TamDenholm 12y agoI did Web Dev in my spare time as a hobby, managed to get some work from a designer on a forum i was part of, and it just kinda went from there, got to a point where i was making about as much doing web dev as a chef, so just quit the chef job. I've basically always been freelance, had a few permie jobs but im not very good at having a 9-5, too business minded for that crap. If i was to do contracting for a whole year, i'd make around £100k, but i tend to instead do contracting around 3 - 6 months a year and do my own business related things the rest of the time.
- pbhjpbhj 12y agoThanks for that.