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line cook here, working in a corporate chain. I begin training tomorrow to transition into a role in management.
How fucked am I?
Also industry general i guess.
>>7852092
enjoy 70 hours a week for $30,000/yr you fucking slave chump bitch
>>7852124
thanks. fortunately i live in a state that just changed the minimum salary for OT exemption to 47k
but yea i know entry level salary is a joke.
foh here. did like $1300 in sales yesterday and walked out with $450 in tips (before i had to tip out lazy ass bussers)
>>7852201
damn son. what kind of operation do you work for?
>>7852227
an upscale mexican restaurant in downtown austin with a lot of expensive tequilas and mescals. it's a total tourist trap but we are always busy and it's a steady fat paycheck.
>>7852092
currently apprentice chef/cook (not sure about the difference in english?) in a luxuary hotel in vienna. The job and the people is amazing, the industry, pay and managment are shit. Right now I enjoy it though.
>>7852409
story of my life. I'll miss cooking with my boys BOH, but i need to prepare for some kind of stable future.
>>7852500
any thoughts how you're gonna go about it?
I'm thinking about working for 4 years then going to university working weekends, because I'd get 450,- monthly as living help from the state if I study after being self-sufficient for 4 years.
Not really sure what "management" looks like for a line cook working at a corporate restaurant chain. I work in the defense industry and have an MBA, and I'm getting the impression that >>7852124 is probably right
>>7852523
i have no idea what im doing. I entertain notions of working for an upscale joint, but i know im being naive.
>>7852537
why are you even here?
you listed your (non culinary) career and education, then agreed with another poster.
way to contribute nothing to the discussion.
>>7852591
No need to run damage control. If you don't want the perspective of someone who makes a lot of money in management, then you've already told the thread everything we needed to know about your career prospects.
>>7852565
You work way harder and don't get paid any more. It's even more of a bad decision than getting into the industry in general.
