John Misrahi wrote:

>>You need to work in a professional kitchen for a significant amount
>>of time before you make your decision, ie not just for a few days.
>>Try it for at least a month. If you can't find someone to pay you for it,
>>work for free if you have to.
>
> Yeah...when I finished high school, I thought that was what I wanted to do
> for a living...Go to cooking school, etc...
> I have now been doing it for 5 years paying college and university...And I
> can't wait to do anything else..

Trade with me, then. You can write the software for mobiles and I'll make
the meals. But, just for a year or two. We can cycle careers...

--
Darryl L. Pierce >
Visit the Infobahn Offramp - <http://bellsouthpwp.net/m/c/mcpierce>
"What do you care what other people think, Mr. Feynman?"

Trade with me, then. You can write the software for mobiles and I'll make
the meals. But, just for a year or two. We can cycle careers...


If I had the know-how, believe me I'd give it a try ! The thing is, a lot of
professional cooking isn't actually cooking...When you start out you are
guaranteed to spend half your time peeling potatoes, scrubbing out dirty
stove burners, and other drudge work..

john

John Misrahi wrote:
>> Trade with me, then. You can write the software for mobiles and I'll make
>> the meals. But, just for a year or two. We can cycle careers...
>
> If I had the know-how, believe me I'd give it a try ! The thing is, a lot
> of professional cooking isn't actually cooking...When you start out you
> are guaranteed to spend half your time peeling potatoes, scrubbing out
> dirty stove burners, and other drudge work..

Probably no different from the junion engineers I've mentored who have
spent their time doing code maintenance, bug fixing and the general grunt
work while the more experience engineers wrote the new code, design
documents and other "sexier" jobs.

Some days I'd rather peel potatoes (don't they have machines to do that for
you now <g>?) than go through yet another round of "what do I have to
change in the design to meet [someone from the EMT]'s latest must-have
feature"...

--
Darryl L. Pierce >
Visit the Infobahn Offramp - <http://bellsouthpwp.net/m/c/mcpierce>
"What do you care what other people think, Mr. Feynman?"

Probably no different from the junion engineers I've mentored who have
spent their time doing code maintenance, bug fixing and the general grunt
work while the more experience engineers wrote the new code, design
documents and other "sexier" jobs.


I guess, except i suspect the jobs you describe above don't involve getting
as hot, sweaty, and dirty as the kitchen grunt work.

john

John Misrahi wrote:

> I guess, except i suspect the jobs you describe above don't involve
> getting as hot, sweaty, and dirty as the kitchen grunt work.

You're right. Instead, they involve mind-numbing sessions reading someone
else's code for hours on end trying to figure out 1) what they were doing
and 2) why it's not always working that way. An effective way to leaqrn no
to create bugs is to first figure out where someone else made them...

--
Darryl L. Pierce >
Visit the Infobahn Offramp - <http://bellsouthpwp.net/m/c/mcpierce>
"What do you care what other people think, Mr. Feynman?"

On Fri, 3 Oct 2003 11:14:50 -0400, "John Misrahi"
> wrote:

>Trade with me, then. You can write the software for mobiles and I'll make
>the meals. But, just for a year or two. We can cycle careers...
>
>
>If I had the know-how, believe me I'd give it a try ! The thing is, a lot of
>professional cooking isn't actually cooking...When you start out you are
>guaranteed to spend half your time peeling potatoes, scrubbing out dirty
>stove burners, and other drudge work..
>
>john

Way back when I told my mother I wanted to learn to cook. She nodded
her head then took me to the sink and taught me how to wash dishes.

I protested that washing dishes wasn't what I wanted to learn to which
she replied, "Clean dishes do not magically appear. You want to learn
to cook you have to learn to clean as well. It's a part of the
whole."

I still don't like cleaning the kitchen, but as she said, "it's a part
of the whole."

......Alan.


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