/ck/ - Food & Cooking

[Anonymous No.5771157]

Right now, I'm looking at having to pick up a culinary job. The field I work in (EMS) pays $8.50 where I'm at for 12 hour shifts, and a large call volume... I'm sick of busting my ass and barely being able to pay the bills. There is no career advancement, especially since there are no Paramedic classes scheduled in my area for the foreseeable future, and once I'd have that it would be an even heavier workload for $11/hour. The benefits are downright shitty. The health coverage is literally the same as the state program only instead of free it costs $400/month for a family of 3.

I started culinary arts school last month to use up some of my GI Bill. I needed the BAH money to stay ahead on bills and I'm not going to let a program I paid for go unused.

My situation is that I need to find work in a kitchen. What I'm asking is for inside advice. Here are the places I'm looking at:

-Bob Evans -Ryan's -Olive Garden -Panera Bread -Red Lobster

Which one would be worth putting an application in at? What is the work environment like? Any inside knowledge on pay and benefits would help.

If I like it and it meets my needs, I might make a career out of it, but I need to get a foot in the door first. Worst care scenario - I work it through school.

[Anonymous No.5771174]

much wow so good blu turkey would baste with thank hou here is a gold

[Anonymous No.5771185]

>>5771174
Pic's not really related... Found it in a /ck/ humor thread the other day.

[Anonymous No.5771216]

>>5771157
Where in gods name do you live? I'm not trying to be a dick, but $8.50 for an EMS job? I pull $12.50+tips (ends up being about $14 an hour) as a barista at a coffee shop, with pretty solid benefits, sick pay, vacation etc. It's not starbucks, but it is a large chain.

[Anonymous No.5771219]

>>5771157
>The field I work in (EMS) pays $8.50
Jesus fucking Christ, time to emigrate.

[Anonymous No.5771222]

Paramedics make 6 figures in the bakken and you just have to have a clean driving record and a clean piss board.

[Anonymous No.5771229]

>>5771157

Are you EMT Basic? I'm in fucking Springfield, MO, and we're known for low medical pay rates, and I KNOW Paramedics make a shit ton more than that around here.

[Anonymous No.5771250]

>>5771157
I don't want to be a wet blanket, but if you're leaving $8.50/hr with tons of work, a crappy lifestyle, and no hope of career advancement for the culinary industry, you're about to be pretty disappointed. The jobs are fairly comparable, and I say that from personal experience in both the healthcare and food industries.

[Anonymous No.5771262]

>>5771157
You were worried about your job of low pay, hard work, and long shifts so you wanted to get into the food industry, an industry notorious for low pay, hard work, and long shifts? I worked at two fast food places and it was awful. I know people who work as chefs and it's so much worse. Chefs don't work with food for a low stress and high paying job, they are chefs because they feel they need to be chefs. At the high end most chefs work over 60 hours a week. Some work 90+. It's not glamorous.

[Anonymous No.5771314]

If nothing else, I can post funny shit while I bump

[Anonymous No.5771353]

>>5771216
-Western Kentucky area.

>>5771219
-Wouldn't mind, but I'd like to move back to the Seattle area. Paramedic classes are more accessible, and they average around $30 an hour. Seattle did pass a minimum wage of $15 and the cost of living just outside Seattle isn't too bad.

>>5771222
-Not exactly sure where Bakken is.

>>5771229
-The company I work for pretty much sets the going rate around my area. The pay definitely isn't too good where I'm at for Basics or Paramedics.

>>5771250
-If nothing else, I'd be happy with a worthwhile raise when the time comes up. My last raise was 4.9 cents after top marks on my review and busting my ass all year.

>>5771262
-I know it's not glamorous, far from it really. But they do start out better than $8.50. If it helps pay the bills while I'm at school, it can't hurt.