After reading some of the other welcome forums I hope this is the way it is supposed to be done according to the guy in charge;).
My name is Sean Elliott and I'm an alcoholic...oh wait wrong forum. Hi, my name is Sean and I will be very soon a culinary student. I took the long way to my passion of cooking. I am 36 years old, married (will be 5 years this saturday) and have two beautiful children ages 3 and 2 (this friday). I have been in the landscaping field for 14 years. Last year I started my own company and it has exceeded all of the goals I had for my first season. For years now I have been a "home cook" I guess is the proper term, cooking everything and loving every second of it. My Mom is Italian so I also got to grow up around the best meatballs and lots of chicken cacciatore! After my first marriage ended I decided it was a good time to go to culinary school. My parents talked me out of it. I had been in landscaping almost 6 years and the money was finally starting to get good and my dad who has been with the same company and profession for 30+ years talked me out of it. About 6 months ago my wife gave me the green light with full support to pursue culinary college. Thats how I stumbled across this forum. I was researching different culinary schools and I decided I wanted to see what chefs were saying about culinary grads. I was inspired by the stories of people who had been in different professions for a long time when they made the career change to pursue the culinary arts. I also heard what many chefs were saying about getting some kitchen experience BEFORE they made the decision to go to culinary school. So I went around to restaurants and eventually got a dishwashing job. So I was never home but the job was a blast. I did everything I could to learn everything I saw. I always asked everyone if they needed help so I gained a lot of hands on experience. Needless to say I enrolled in LCB Las Vegas and right now I am slated to start November 10th!!! I just want to say that this site is AWESOME and I really really appreciate all of the advice I read. It helped me realize the passion I had for food was a time bomb in my soul ready to explode. The first day I walked in that kitchen to wash dishes was when the explosion occurred!! I look forward to many more awesome postings on this site and I thank you for taking the time to read my story.
My name is Sean Elliott and I'm an alcoholic...oh wait wrong forum. Hi, my name is Sean and I will be very soon a culinary student. I took the long way to my passion of cooking. I am 36 years old, married (will be 5 years this saturday) and have two beautiful children ages 3 and 2 (this friday). I have been in the landscaping field for 14 years. Last year I started my own company and it has exceeded all of the goals I had for my first season. For years now I have been a "home cook" I guess is the proper term, cooking everything and loving every second of it. My Mom is Italian so I also got to grow up around the best meatballs and lots of chicken cacciatore! After my first marriage ended I decided it was a good time to go to culinary school. My parents talked me out of it. I had been in landscaping almost 6 years and the money was finally starting to get good and my dad who has been with the same company and profession for 30+ years talked me out of it. About 6 months ago my wife gave me the green light with full support to pursue culinary college. Thats how I stumbled across this forum. I was researching different culinary schools and I decided I wanted to see what chefs were saying about culinary grads. I was inspired by the stories of people who had been in different professions for a long time when they made the career change to pursue the culinary arts. I also heard what many chefs were saying about getting some kitchen experience BEFORE they made the decision to go to culinary school. So I went around to restaurants and eventually got a dishwashing job. So I was never home but the job was a blast. I did everything I could to learn everything I saw. I always asked everyone if they needed help so I gained a lot of hands on experience. Needless to say I enrolled in LCB Las Vegas and right now I am slated to start November 10th!!! I just want to say that this site is AWESOME and I really really appreciate all of the advice I read. It helped me realize the passion I had for food was a time bomb in my soul ready to explode. The first day I walked in that kitchen to wash dishes was when the explosion occurred!! I look forward to many more awesome postings on this site and I thank you for taking the time to read my story.
