/ck/ - Food & Cooking

>>11602765
how old are you?

>Not looking to get rich btw.

fucking loser

Butcher hands are disgusting looking.

No clue why but they get all kinds of weird growths and shit.

>>11602822
I asked this because if you're recently out of high school (18-20), you should just suck it up, go to traditional uni, get a stem degree, have a decent paying job/career, and cook for fun.

I regret not getting a useful degree every day.

>>11602765
go do plumbing instead. more recession proof

>>11602765
before going to a butcher program, you could reach out to butchers in the area, tell them you're interested, see if you could get some kind of mentor/apprenticeship type of deal. then you can get paid to learn.

only way I'd do a butcher program is if 1) there was no way to get a decent kind of butcher job without it or 2) the program has relationships with quality employs and will place students into the best butcher jobs available.

>>11602848
I'm 22 and quit university because I fucking hated it and had no interest whatsoever in those types of jobs. I want to work with my hands. I am unemployed right now and collecting pogey (winter layoff after working the construction season)

>>11602860
employers**

>>11602864
become an electrician or plumber

>>11602864
if you're making $14/hr several years down the road you might regret being a butcher.

if you're deadset on working with your hands, be a plumber like the other dude said, or electrician, etc.

not caring about being rich is one thing, but you still wanna be able to buy a house, etc.

please take my advice im a 28 year old fuckup. would love to be 22 again

>>11602878
please take my advice.

Worth it if they'll help set you with serious employers after you graduate. Not worth it if all you're going to do us work at the supermarket meat counter.
A buddy of mine who cooks at a big hotel is going to butcher school on the company's dime because they decided they wanted an in-house butcher at their next hotel.

>>11602878
oh god anon i'm 26 how do I change my future

>>11602899
idk man you're pretty much in the same boat as me prolly. 26 is closer to 28 than 22, and somehow your early/mid twenties feel much younger than mid/late 20s.

>>11602878
>giving up at 28
Nigga just do what you wanna do even if you graduate with your STEM degree in 5 years you'll still have it by 33 and have the job you want by 35. That's what like another 35 years of doing the job you want retiring around 70? I think you're just a fucking pussy afraid to fail.

>>11602906
what do you do for work?

>>11602891
>>11602765
butchers are usually on commission instead of wage or salary, so if you're good you'll make bank, if you're bad you're wasting your time. I'd recommend apprenticeship for sure if you can get it, both to make sure you love the work and to get the best skills possible. remember to sharpen everything, not just your knife

>>11602874
F that, be a forced air guy. Way more $
Less competition.

your going to regret it unless you have some entrepreneurial skill to get into the trading and distribution in the butcher business or open up a butcher shop ( with capitol you dont have cause of shitty pay) your always going to be mr 14$ an hour. sure it seems fun and cool now and your romanticizing it but nothing is fucking fun about packing porkchops into plastic trays when your 37. If you dont know what you want to do with your life just go to school with something REMOTELY marketable like accounting, programming, engineering, biochem, or hell even film/digital marketing if your into that sort of thing. THEN take those useful skills and find out what you wanna do.

I mean for fucks sake a butcher. Not even mexicans are butchers where I live, Its all central Americans trying to get buy , black or white guys with a record that can't do anything better, or occasionally a student paying through school who used to work at the cashier.

>>11602857
One of my co-workers would highly disagree with you. His previous job was as a plumber and he told me 'When the economy was doing good, I was doing good. When the economy went bad, I was living from pay check to pay check.' Plumbing SIN'T recession proof. Plumbers make their best money when they are working on new construction projects. That's where the OT is. When that dries up and you are only looking to go unclog a sink or fix a toilet......that's when you start seeing your hours drop below 40 per week, because that shit does not happen as often as you think.

But people always have to eat. So look into the butcher programs OP. That is far more recession proof than plumbing.

>>11602860
>Solid advice
Thank you fellow anon, have a cute Croat girl for your trouble.

>>11602765
enjoy losing yout fingers

>>11604131
you have to be 18+ to post here

>>11602857
and in a way you're still working with food

>>11602765
Wouldn't you just end up in a slaughter house and not necessarily a butcher shop?

>>11602919
>expecting anyone on /b/ to make it past 55

>>11603492
Is that why most major supermarket chains are removing their butcher counters?

>meatless future projected
>I know let me become a guy who slices meat up
zoomers are a powerful race

>>11602848
Fuck off jew. Stop inflating college even more than it already is. STEM is just as hopeless in America as anywhere else.

>>11602765
do it OP
folks love a local butcher and there are not a lot these days, that's why the place is offering the program. they are in demand
I'm so glad pops showed me how to filet a fish, would of been cooler to butcher some real animal though
I just thawed out my last couple pounds of skirt steak yesterday, luckily I have a butcher that will save the cut for me, because it's not to be found in grocery stores around here

>>11603309
>what op gets trained in his early 20s is what he has to do the rest of his life
>there is no opportunity for career advancement in the grocery industry

Yikes bud for someone trying to come off as smart you're pretty ignorant. Lmao if you think that trained butchers are the guys putting pork chops into trays too.

>>11604525
>salty brainlet who couldn't get into college
but whatever helps you feel better about yourself.

>>11602765
Don't ask for advice about what to do with your life here lol

>>11602843
How many butcher hands have you personally seen?

>>11604259
>meatless future projected
>Being this gullible.
I bet you think oil is a bad investment too.

Do HVAC. Pay is very good and there is a major demand for HVAC techs. Braising is also an option and so is welding but they are both more dangerous and can cause health issues later in life, on the flip side though braisers are in very high demand and are more likely to get paid more as a result. Get a job in niche trades because not only is demand extremely high but pay is also very good and you wont have any debt

>>11604981
Doesnt HVAC have links to ALS or MS one of those degenerative diseases?

>>11602765
I'm afraid butchery will soon be almost entirely replaced by machines.
I'll miss it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H89PVM9hP-Y

>>11604995
Nothing that I know of no.

>>11602765
remember to get a bunch of little tattoos all over both of your arms(suggestions: zelda, mario, yoshi, NES, anything 8-bit, a sail tattoo, a mustache), get a overly groomed and feminine beard and get some ye old western accessories

You will be butchboi number one

>>11602878
>>11602899
>>11602906
Chumps.
>>11602919
Well said. I went to med school at 32. Now I own my own practice. I build gaming computers for the office and shitpost about cooking all day, when I am not yelling at doctors to do their fucking jerbs. 05 ancientfag here.

>>11602899

Trade school. Or college if you hate working with your hands.

>>11605032
I have crippling anxiety now that I didn't have when I was younger. I barely function, no way I could do something like med school, an engi degree, etc

>>11605015
Imagine basing your stereotypes off of things you were told by a bunch of recluses on an anime website.

>>11605145
That's the most pathetic thing I've ever heard. Get up off your ass and get it man that's the only way you're gonna succeed and yea you'll struggle on thr way but everybody struggles on the way the biggest difference between successful people and others is tenacity.

>>11602919
>>11605032
How did you guys deal with paying for it? I'm 22 and have pretty much given up entirely because of my economic situation. I have shit credit because of medical bills, and right now my only hope is slaving away BOH and saving every penny while living off of rice and potatoes, or doing that until I can get my insurance license.
On top of that I have pretty poor fucking health despite being in good shape, and I don't expect to live very long.
>inb4 ur just a typical sadboy millennial "I wanna die lol"
I should be dead already.

>>11604525
this is the worst thing about poltards desu.

>>11602765
i was a butcher for a few years,
its nice if you dont mind being in a cold room. you learn how to cut steaks of every sort. and i dont regret my time with it.

>I wanna be a butcher
Here's a crystal ball to see into your future:
https://youtube.com/watch?v=mBev8tF9gxg

>>11605159
>Get up off your ass and get it
awesome advice dude, this is the actionable, step-by-step guide I was looking for. brb gonna go be successful

>>11604937
crickets don't need to get divvied up

>>11605218
Step by step guides and self help programs are sophist con man schemes. I dont know you I don't know your skills and weaknesses or interests. Nobody knows it as well as you. You're not gonna find a magic coach fairy to sit on your shoulder and tell you what's up. Its messy and different for everyone you literally just *have* to start putting yourself out there and really pushing for the things you want even if it means grinding away 7 days a week.

>>11605218

He responded that way because he sensed your defeatist attitude from the get go. A full step-by-step for life doesn't exist, but he gave you step one. Get off your fucking ass.

>>11605161
Idk man you're in a tough spot it sounds like. If you're in good shape you could probably find a sugar momma to take care of your medical bills. Don't focus on if she's attractive tho.

>>11602848
There's nothing wrong with not wanting to take the university route, and STEM is stating to get just as oversaturated as any other feild. Stop acting like a meme education is as bullet proof as it was 10 years ago before people started fawning over how secure that shit was

Working in the trades is perfectly fine. You have less stress at work, and you leave work at work, no emails or taking work home with you. Plus it's nice to work with your hands.

The only thing I would caution you about is imagine you are handling meat every day. You might get sick of or even grossed out about meat over time.

>>11604588
Plus one. Good advice

>>11603496
why is she drinking windex

>>11604998
In the large scale yeah, but there will still be ongoing demand for small scale local butchers who can respond better to special orders and provide better quality. and such. I wouldn't go into it unless I intended on Starting my own business.

>>11604772
HEs right , half stem graduates don’t even work in stem fucktard

>>11605367
I hope you're right, man. I use my local butcher's when I can afford to but I don't usually have to stand in line in the shop if you know what I mean.
I'd hate to see him go.

>>11605370
This. My friends a mech eng degree working in IT cuz that's how he got through college but he had better opportunity in the field he had experience and connections in. Experience and connections are the only thing that matter. Hell a lot of jobs if they like you enough they'll pay you to go back to school and finish your degree after you've been with them for a while and proven you're easy to work with, reliable, and responsible. Its a good investment to them.