Week 1 EOC: My Best and Worst Jobs

My worst job is the job I currently work at. It is a ice cream shop, it’s easy work, get paid $8.25 per hour. What I can’t handle is the new boss. He is cutting our hours, adding stuff to the menu, won’t call maintenance for our machines, so they constantly break down, won’t order supplies when we need them, and we get low on ingredients. This makes our job all the more harder and I want to cry.

My best job, wasn’t a job. It was a volunteer opportunity in a warehouse where I was a runner for the appetizers, entrees, and desserts. I got to work with many chefs in the kitchen, plate extravagant looking dishes. Serving less than 100 people at the same time definitely became a challenge, especially with all the hot foods because we had to get it out in time before the entire dish became cold. It was a truly remarkable experience.

Week 1 EOC: My Voice

Cooking came easy to me as soon as I read my first recipe: Chili. Seeing all the other cohorts struggle, I looked at them and questioned “how and why is this so difficult.”  Seeing as how cooking came natural to me and how I breezed through the recipe, I knew at that moment that this is going to be my passion and something that I can make my profession. Over the years I have been cooking, I’ve truly escalated through the skills after starting from little to none. What I see coming into the culinary world is a lot of stress, screaming, anger, and many barriers to go over. This is something I can do and I look forward to it. As a culinarian of the future, and technology advances, there might be even more challenges, or make the job even easier to perform, but when it comes down to what will actually be used in the kitchen might be a different story. Sometimes technology can’t perform what humans can, or machines will take our duties, making finding a job that much more difficult. All of that, to me, just means I have to work that much harder to combat the unknown. We have to push ourselves beyond the limit, break down, and try harder next time. I wouldn’t have it any other way.