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Well, after 2 years in the catering trade I can defenitely say it sucks.
There was a time when I loved cooking but now I hate cooking for customers. Unsociable working hours also led me to having no social life at all, it's been three months since I've been out with friends or had a jamming session.
Not that I hate working there but working 55+ hours a week in a resteraunt half an hour away is ludicrous and way too much.
Thus this draws me to my question.
For the past year I've been interested in getting into the design scene, a lot of people at work have seen my art and suggested I do so but I don't know how to go about doing it. The only lead I have is a through another chef I used to work with but I'm not totally sure if it's worth following up.
Any job which I could use my artistic side in would be perfect and I'd really like to give it a try.

OMG U R CHEF!!!111
Anyway, you could make a deal with your boss, like working less with a small compensation or something.

You're too awesome of a chef to just pack it in, man. That chili you made me dominated. However, I know what it's like to lose interest in something you're good at when you're forced to do it, especially at the cost of your social life. I wouldn't say throw in the towel on the cheffin' just yet, but definitely explore avenues relating to graphic art if it's where you wanna go. Take a sketchbook with you everywhere and draw everything that inspires you. Make a portfolio and foist it upon anyone relevant. That's what I'm doing, and I'm hopeful it'll work for me.

Good luck, mi hermano.

It's kind of difficult to do that when you only have 2 other chefs and you serve about 70 punters in a night shift. The other guys do similar hours but I don't enjoy it any more and want out.

Edit: And thanks Josh, it means a lot when your work is appreciated. I'm already on the sketch pad thing too, plus I'm designing a tatoo for a waitress so I'm getting somewhere... slowly.

Maybe you should hire more people. Altough there must be a good reason for only having three cookers in the place.

There are many starving artists, but there are few starving chefs.

Anyways, it's ultimately up to you.

Hopefully, you'll get to tap that, assuming that the waitress is:

1) Attractive
2) Single
3) Getting the tattoo on her lower back, which is, as Vince Vaughn so eloquently put it, "practically a bulls-eye"

Baba O'Reily wrote:There are many starving artists, but there are few starving chefs.

Anyways, it's ultimately up to you.

I get your point there Baba, a good one too, but there are many more better payed jobs that are closer to home and give me more free time.
(Contrary to popular belief chefs don't get get payed much for what they do)

I'd think that you'd get free food at the very least working as a chef. I mean, I'm a taco slinger and I get free food all the time (granted, Taco Bell can only get you so far)

But, if you're tired of it, you shouldn't force yourself to keep going. I did that at my last job, and by the time they layed me off (nice phrase for "Fired"), I had lost nearly all my motivation. That is not worth sacrificing, not for anything.