Thanks in advance for reading this post. I am a 36 yo female with a 10 year old boy and married. I have had a bad string of luck with jobs in the last year.
Trying to make this short...
I left my job of 2 years as a Sous of a 5star fine dining restaurant a year ago. The Exec was the owner so I was never going to move up further. I was also underpaid and taken advantage of and I think the Exec was threatened by me as she was a lawyer turned Chef and never went to culinary school. She always would make it a point to tell me that you don't have to go to school to cook, but I was the one teaching her stuff lol. I left that job to double the pay at a high volume seafood restaurant that I had waitressed at several years before. They were having major issues in the kitchen and said they needed help turning it around. Well, I think I bit off more then I could chew. I tried to impliment structure and turn over the staff of old dogs with bad habits but was met with a lot of resistance saying I was too harsh or too nice or didn't know what I was doing. They were in major financial trouble too that I wasn't aware of when I started. My first paycheck bounced. My vendor account checks bounced. Finally 5 months later they let me go and then went bankrupt 1 month later.
2 months after this I get this awesome job as head chef at a large catering company with a monthly supper club. 1 month later I break my leg outside of work and they forced unpaid medical leave on me even though I had a note to return to work with restrictions. Well, they ended up filling my spot since they wanted me to be 100% recovered which I think is rediculous.
This brings me to the present. Cast has been off for 3 weeks. I have 3 job opportunities. I've been unemployed for quite some time so I'm behind on all my bills very much so.
Job 1 is with my friend helping him open his second seafood restaurant and I'd just be a kitchen manager and there is no room for creativity. They pay is not good. 600/wk but I know it would be a fun job but I wouldn't be creating recipes and trying new things which I love. I'll also be broke.
Job 2 is a chef de partie at a Forbes 5 star resort. Pay is ok, not great, but room for growth and creativity.
Job 3 is a very well paying job at Panda Express as a GM with benefits. Obviously no room for creativity. Room for growth.
What do I do???? [emoji]128563[/emoji]
Trying to make this short...
I left my job of 2 years as a Sous of a 5star fine dining restaurant a year ago. The Exec was the owner so I was never going to move up further. I was also underpaid and taken advantage of and I think the Exec was threatened by me as she was a lawyer turned Chef and never went to culinary school. She always would make it a point to tell me that you don't have to go to school to cook, but I was the one teaching her stuff lol. I left that job to double the pay at a high volume seafood restaurant that I had waitressed at several years before. They were having major issues in the kitchen and said they needed help turning it around. Well, I think I bit off more then I could chew. I tried to impliment structure and turn over the staff of old dogs with bad habits but was met with a lot of resistance saying I was too harsh or too nice or didn't know what I was doing. They were in major financial trouble too that I wasn't aware of when I started. My first paycheck bounced. My vendor account checks bounced. Finally 5 months later they let me go and then went bankrupt 1 month later.
2 months after this I get this awesome job as head chef at a large catering company with a monthly supper club. 1 month later I break my leg outside of work and they forced unpaid medical leave on me even though I had a note to return to work with restrictions. Well, they ended up filling my spot since they wanted me to be 100% recovered which I think is rediculous.
This brings me to the present. Cast has been off for 3 weeks. I have 3 job opportunities. I've been unemployed for quite some time so I'm behind on all my bills very much so.
Job 1 is with my friend helping him open his second seafood restaurant and I'd just be a kitchen manager and there is no room for creativity. They pay is not good. 600/wk but I know it would be a fun job but I wouldn't be creating recipes and trying new things which I love. I'll also be broke.
Job 2 is a chef de partie at a Forbes 5 star resort. Pay is ok, not great, but room for growth and creativity.
Job 3 is a very well paying job at Panda Express as a GM with benefits. Obviously no room for creativity. Room for growth.
What do I do???? [emoji]128563[/emoji]