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[quote=Anonymous]Oh Christ.

Nothing pisses me off more than overprivileged people with massive familial safety nets droning on about "finding your passion."  Fuck passion.  Poverty sucks. Insecurity sucks. Not being able to get what your peers are getting sucks. Denying your child things sucks.

So, culinary school. Bad idea.  Bad, bad, bad idea. Awful.  #1. Best chefs in the world never went to no culinary school. They were sold off at age twelve to peel potatoes and slowly rose through the ranks. This is how people advance in the food service business.  And - please have your daughter read this - to a chef who hires her, if he WILL hire her, it will make like zero fucks of a difference whether she went to culinary school or not. She will still start peeling potatoes, just like Jose from Pueblo right next to her. Except Jose doesn't have any student debt OR a chip on his shoulder.  He is actually pleased peeling potatoes. Will your daughter be? Catering business? Again, most cooks behind catering businesses never went to culinary schools. Bullshit idea.

#2.  Restaurant kitchen work sucks, for a woman.  Most won't hire her except for pattiseur section. She'll work next to rude, over-testosteroned, over-tattoed, substance-abusing men. She will work when everyone else is off.  Her dating life will be largely limited to other men in the business. Her hands and back will be ruined by at 29 - because when you have to haul a sack of frozen chicken from a reach in, ain't no one in the kitchen caring that you are a lady. You aren't. So get used to heavy loads and a hazardous work environment.

#3.  There is no money in it.  A good sous chef in a GOOD restaurant makes like 60K.  That guy has put in 15+ years in the kitchen. He is making 60K. Please read this until it sinks in. Money margins in food businesses are ridiculously low.

The best way to make your daughter understand this is to have an unpaid stage in a kitchen. Let her see if she enjoys being on her feet for 8+ hr straight washing dishes by hand, peeling potatoes or prepping veg.  Let her talk to an actual chef.  See the look of amazement and pity in his eyes. While you're at it, look at his hands and have her ask herself if she'd like her hands to look like that.

Having said this, if your daughter likes the IDEA of being around food and catering...have her major in something tangentially related but USEFUL. Like hotel management or hospitality.  Or business.  Or accounting. Or marketing.  Because you know, the catering business doesn't succeed on the strength of its burgers, it succeeds on the strength of its marketing and business rigor.

Dance, I just can't.  Have her talk to dance teachers scrounging for lessons and making like 30K.  And hustling. Really hustling.

That's the tragedy of this, that you can sink $$ into your education, and then work really hard, and in both of these jobs you will make very little money.  And because education isn't really necessary for any of them, you'll be in a much worse position than someone who just went to work these jobs, without student debt, and without expectations.

I would never allow my child to go into any of this. You have the right instinct not to. [/quote]

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