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Neither. I have a culinary degree. No one wants chefs anymore. They want cooks. Chef of the past have been such pains in the ass to employers they no longer want them. If you plan on owning your own restaurant you don't need a culinary degree for that just experience and money. Lots and lots of money. There's an old saying in the restaurant biz; you can make a small fortune in the restaurant business, you have to spend a large fortune to make it though. I've owned my own and was in that line of work for 26 years. It's was fun but it's no way to live long term. It's terrible for raising a family, terrible on marriages and you'll lose all your non restaurant friends. I left that industry 4 years ago and I've never felt better. My advise: next time you see some guy in his 30's driving a Porsche or Ferrari or a Lamborghini ask that person what they do for a living compile their answers and pick a career from that list.
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  • That's hollow man

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  • How so?

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  • Shouldn't you just follow your passion? You've told him to speak to men who own Ferraris and shit. As if money is pivotal in life. I think that's a bit hollow that you would think that way.

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  • A person can follow a culinary passion nightly in their own kitchen. When they get off at 5. A person in the culinary industry starts works around 5 then gets off around midnight so you can imagine what that does to a social life. Know what the Porsche guy does on 4th of July? Goes to the beach or lake, basically whatever he wants. Know what a chef does? Goes to work because the Porsche guy might want a steak later. Same with New Years, Halloween, Labor Day and Memorial Day. And sure it's s cruel fact of life but money will frame everything you do. Lack of it will trap you in a job you hate on a crap schedule and working for people you despise. Abundance of it will free you up to make choices. Money makes life easier all around. To someone making 40k a year a car break down is a major thing. To someone making 100k it's a minor annoyance. As opposed to talking to the guy in the nice car go talk to someone with a culinary degree working out there. Ask them if they had it to do all over again if they would choose culinary. And I even invite you to go find people out there with philosophy degrees and ask them. You can find those people working at Starbucks.

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  • Damn that's cynical

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  • The core of what I'm trying to say is to go and find people doing the thing you think you wanna do for a living. Then see if they're doing well. Ask them if they'd do it all over again if given the chance. OP is probably finishing high school and looking to move on. I just hate to see another young person make a bad choice because they had no frame of reference. Sure it might sound cynical and cruel. But know what's even more cruel? Making an 18 year old decide what they want to do for the next 40 or so years after all they've been around are other kids and public school teacher (who are basically just college educated baby sitters now). Then even crueler is allowing them to take our outrageous loans for things like art history, gender studies or philosophy, while colleges charge idiotic prices for classes. Now that's cruel.

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