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Originally Posted by thetincook  The best advice anyone can get about culinary school is to get restaurant job BEFORE you go to school. This is because real life experience will help you learn more/better at school, AND you won't find yourself 2 years down the line having wasted $$$ on a career you don't want to stay in. |
If you read through a few threads, you'll see that I've similarly expressed thetincook's advice multiple times. The restaurant industry eats people and spits them out quickly. Most culinary school grads have a totally unrealistic view of what it's like, day-to-day, in a commercial kitchen. How many times have I heard, "I loved culinary school, but I hate working 12 hour days in a hot kitchen." Please, before you commit to spending thousands of borrowed dollars for culinary school, get a job in a restaurant's kitchen and work there for a year. See what it's like, learn what you can, and then, decide whether your best course of action is a culinary school.