/ck/ - Food & Cooking

[Anonymous No.14787615]

I recently stopped being a NEET and got hired as a line cook bros. I thought working was supposed to suck dick but this is literally the best fucking job ever.

>everyone on the line is a bro
>everyone puts in effort to get shit done
>free meal and pop every shift
>decent pay
Honestly I don’t give a fuck if you call me a wagie. At least I work and enjoy it, faggot. Also, /ck/ related job thread.

[Anonymous No.14787636]

Congrats anon.

[Anonymous No.14787645]

>>14787615
some people are made to serve i guess

[Anonymous No.14787650]

>>14787645
And others are made to sit in their parent's basements, a burden.

[Anonymous No.14787653]

I make 16 an hour non taxed overtime, columbia sc. Where are you OP?

[Anonymous No.14787656]

>>14787615
good job anon haha get it

[Anonymous No.14787658]

>>14787615
You get a six month grace period. Come back next year and try to pretend you're not a chainsmoking problem-drinker. Some people make it, but the burnout rate is real. Congrats on the job, though. Good on ya.

[Anonymous No.14787681]

>>14787653
15.50 an hour with a raise per station learned. I work for a chain but my location is western Washington. I haven’t gotten my first paycheck yet but all my days so far have been a little overtime. I don’t care, though. I come home tired as shit but I also feel very productive and proud of myself. It’s also been helping me with my problem of boredom eating, because I don’t eat much before and during my shift. Is this what it feels like to be an adult?

[Anonymous No.14787700]

>>14787615
Yeah I got my first job in a kitchen, and loved it. It helped me discover my love of cooking. I have a much better job that pays double and is full time but I still have a kitchen job just cause I love to sling food, and shoot the shit. Congrats on the job.

[Anonymous No.14787706]

>>14787681
>western Washington
You guys been getting rain? We finally started getting fucking rain up here in BC and the smoke's gone away.
Also, yes, you're experiencing the "first satisfying job high". It feels great, but it doesn't last forever. I worked construction for a couple years, giddy on the whole being tired at the end of the day thing before eventually I was also tired at the beginning of the day as well. Tired for the whole day. Tired all the time. So fucking tired.

Well, lucky for me, the company had good insurance and long-term disability coverage. I'm a crippleNEET now, but I have more money that I can spend.

[Anonymous No.14787714]

>>14787706
Yeah man, hope you guys are doing alright up there. The fires down here were pushing dangerously close to the western half of the state. We lost power for a good ~18 hours and then had thick smoke for what felt like weeks. But it’s been raining for the past few days now and that’s what I like about the PNW. I hope you’re doing well though, anon. It sucks to be in pain.

[Anonymous No.14787722]

>>14787700
>>14787658
>>14787636
also thank you all for the congratulations. this is honestly the best board on 4chan. from the McChickens to the Ja/ck/s to that dude who eats all that Taco Bell and hamburger once a week. Glad we got rid of that sticky as well.

[Anonymous No.14787744]

>>14787615
I'm jealous Anon, I wish I could be happy and enjoy my job.

[Anonymous No.14787754]

>>14787706
>We finally started getting fucking rain up here in BC and the smoke's gone away.

America.

[Anonymous No.14787773]

>pop

Call it soda so you don't sound like a complete clown

[Anonymous No.14788325]

>>14787773
SOFT DRIIIIIIINK!

[Anonymous No.14788341]

Good for you anon

[Anonymous No.14788346]

>>14787615
I'm proud of you, Anon.

[Anonymous No.14788348]

>>14787615
See you in a few months.

[Anonymous No.14788400]

>>14787615
How did you get the job? I'm currently a NEET and would like to try working in a kitchen, but it's difficult because my city is in lockdown and most restaurants are closed.

[Anonymous No.14788409]

Good job anon

[Anonymous No.14788415]

>>14787615
After 10 years I'm trying to get out. starting school in January for accounting. fuck the hospitality industry I was lied to and brainwashed by culinary school and pop culture.
The whole do what you love mentality is fucked, do what makes money and gives you a good work life balance, then do what you love in your spare time. if you do what you love as your job you begin to fucking hate it.

[Anonymous No.14788439]

>>14787615
I hope to have the same experience. I was homeless for some time and then drifting. All I want is a simple food job. It seems super comfy, you work and get paid and you get free meals on shift.

I feel like people who complain within the food industry don't know how much lower one can fall. Line cook is gold.

[Anonymous No.14788591]

>>14787615
That's great. You will not like it as much after some time tho.

[Anonymous No.14788592]

>>14787773
Pop is just a regional term. Get over it, sperg.

[Anonymous No.14788614]

>>14787615
congrats anon

[Anonymous No.14789326]

>>14788439
>>14788400
All I can say is to keep applying. If you want it you gotta show you want it and reach for it. Call around a few days after you’ve applied and ask if they got your application, send in your resume as well.

My resume was nothing but a warehouse job and bullshit “lawn service” from when I was in middle and high school, so I had a tough time finding a restaurant that would hire me. But I did, and it was definitely worth it.

>>14788415
This isn’t my end goal career wise. I’m not trying to stay in the industry, I just want to have a job I like and can gain culinary experience with while I go to school. I planned on starting in the fall but this corona bullshit is making it exceptionally hard to deal with. So it looks like spring now. I’m gonna major in anthropology and minor in English linguistics because I wanna get in the JET Program.

[Anonymous No.14789371]

>>14789326
Thanks anon. Why did they hire you though? Did you have any cooking experience? Or was it easy for them to teach you what to do?

[Anonymous No.14789431]

>>14789371
I’m not shitting on anyone in the industry when I say this, but if you’re working at a casual sort of place. Like a chain restaurant or small local place, most of the shit there doesn’t require any culinary background and can be taught to anyone who has bare minimum cognitive ability to learn stuff in the kitchen. I’m not saying it’s not hard, but anyone can kinda at least pick it up. The hard part is the pace.

To answer your question, though, their last line cook got fired because he didn’t do his job well. I wasn’t expecting to get this job either but I hoped myself up for the interview. I came in confident and answered everything honestly and the manager really liked me so I got it. I wish I could give you better answers, but everywhere is different. Personally, I’d say that once you get the interview, dress nice and just be coolly professional if that makes any sense at all.

[Anonymous No.14789434]

[Anonymous No.14789453]

>>14789431
Where did you apply? Did the ad for the job say you needed experience/qualifications? All the jobs here say that and I'm kind of worried I'll look like a fool by sending a resume that has no cooking exp on it when the job asks for it.

[Anonymous No.14789481]

>>14787615
nice job OP, i too work in a kitchen and love it, about 6 years total experience

had a decent job for the last three years as a sales rep for a garment manufacturer. decided i hated it and came back to the kitchen around December of last year. no regrets.

be careful around your deep fryers

[Anonymous No.14789483]

>>14789453
If you know how to operate your own kitchen you technically have experience and that is 110% the truth. Also, don’t worry about what the hiring managers are gonna think about you (until you get to the interview process). If they don’t like the resume or don’t find you qualified they simply won’t respond. If thousands of dumb little zoomers in high school have the courage and confidence to apply to every game stop in town just because they can play fortnite, then you my man can definitely apply to a restaurant.

Also if you have no cooking experience on your resume and they call you in anyway, you won’t even have to worry about that. A professional kitchen is still a kitchen, it’s just got more structure to it.

[Anonymous No.14789489]

>>14789453
Oh yeah, sorry. I got hired at Red Robin.

[Anonymous No.14789523]

>>14787615
I'm genuinely happy for you OP. Congrats on finding something that works for you! I wish you many many more years of work satisfaction and happiness. Now where is my god damn porterhouse and baked potato? Fucking ordered it 40 minutes ago!

[Anonymous No.14790276]

>>14787615
It won't last. Sooned than later it will become a drag and you will be jobless soon anyway.

[Anonymous No.14790452]

>>14787615
Thought about starting as a line cook, it just looked really stressful

[Anonymous No.14790495]

>>14787754
Yes, the fires were in the US but weather patterns meant the smoke migrated north to Canada. It got pretty bad in the interior and the mountains.

[Anonymous No.14790872]

>>14787773
>>14788592
I've heard both around. It seems like pop should be used if it's in a glass bottle.

[Anonymous No.14791353]

>>14787615
Great job getting this far. Don’t get discouraged by the prospect of burnout or the job losing it’s luster; that happens to everything you have to do over and over for prolonged times. Anticipate it a little and plan around it - rotate stations, find another job that offers you better pay/benefits and climb positions over a few years using your training and experience, make some friends or whatever makes you feel like the job is a valuable part of your life beyond a way to spend your time. There’s a lot of good to be found in a decent job, and I’m sure you can find it.

As a pretty new worker myself, a direct tip: keep a careful eye on how much your coworkers get done on the job. If you wanna settle in, try to match pace and if you want to stand out, see where you can contribute something the kitchen needs. Once you make a good impression it’ll stick, and high praise from previous employers or coworkers gives a pretty good impression down the line. Have fun at work, bro

[Anonymous No.14791659]

>>14787681
good job man working hard and and being proud of what you do is what life truly is. Most people can't say that at the end of the day they are happy to have worked themselves to exhaustion.

[Anonymous No.14791789]

>>14787615
Same. I worked as a baker and everyone told me it would suck... Totally fell in love with the job

[Anonymous No.14791799]

>>14790872
What

[Anonymous No.14792558]

>>14791799
I think what he is trying to say is he is autistic

[Anonymous No.14792564]

>>14787615
incredibly based. congrats anon, buy some Chainlink with your tendies.

[Anonymous No.14792601]

>>14789326
Good luck on that, OP. Hope you make it in a better time than I did.
t. current "JET" who was supposed to be flying out two weeks ago but who will instead probably be flying out in one year minus two weeks from now

[Anonymous No.14792605]

They put cameras up in our kitchen last week to stop staff spitting in food and stealing.

[Anonymous No.14793241]

>>14792601
Holy shit, man! I have a lot of questions for you if this thread stays alive at all. What did you major in and what was the interview like? Would you recommend the program?

[Anonymous No.14793351]

>>14792605
used to live by a McD's that's staff watched that Fries With That movie at their unofficial movie night and started spitting in food like left right and center because it was so funny when they did it in the movie

come within an hour of closing? spit. look funny? spit. rightfully ask that they bring you what you fucking ordered? spit.

this one motherfucker was a massive slut and serial rapist too probably gave like 30 people herpes spitting in their burgers


i getchu minimum wage slaves get treated like expendable cattle but I am glad they fucking watch you

[Anonymous No.14793371]

>>14787722
Based

[Anonymous No.14793380]

>>14787615
I'm about to start delivering pizzas for dominos after years of drive thru work, what am I in for?

[Anonymous No.14793398]

>>14787615
NEETs are all miserable and everything they say is just to cope with their own worthless, meaningless existence they resent, but make no effort to fix
you should NEVER listen to whatever they have to say

[Anonymous No.14793401]

>>14787615
There is dignity in honest work.

[Anonymous No.14793446]

>>14787722
>I like thos board for the shitposting
Neck yourself kid. Just how old are you anyway?

[Anonymous No.14793467]

>>14793380
Why the fuck are you still doing low level menial jobs? How shit are you that you didn't advance at all after YEARS of being in a fucking drive thru? And you think delivering pizzas is going to be better? Get a grip on your life.

[Anonymous No.14793561]

>>14787645
all people are made to serve you

[Anonymous No.14793824]

>>14787615
aww I thought this was a Steve thread

[Anonymous No.14793844]

>>14787615
I'm glad you're happy anon.
God be with you.

[Anonymous No.14793846]

>>14787615
congrats OP

I'm currently studying accounting and if my country doesn't cuck out the liberals and vote in the neo nazis for two party reasons long enough for me to finish studying I'll probably be in the same boat, despite being unable to enter public spaces without passing out since I was raped during class my first year of university

i just really want to get off government life support and begin contributing to society and growing as a mature adult. also I want employment before I'm cut off and made a homeless butt monkey and freeze to death in front of town hall.

[Anonymous No.14793851]

>>14787650
lmao I don't go to line-cooks for food. I eat raw meat. Greasy line-cooks are a burden to the planet and people's health.

[Anonymous No.14793855]

>>14787615
Great to hear, anon! Savour it and know that it's only the beginning. Keep the ball rolling and look for the same kick in new things.

[Anonymous No.14794680]

>>14793467
not him but

[Anonymous No.14794796]

>>14789434
>I'm in this picture and I don't like it

[Anonymous No.14794825]

>>14789431
thanks bro but i want to work at a real restaurant, not some fast food chain

[Anonymous No.14794857]

>>14787645
>some people are made to serve i guess

You may not like it, but I am like this and coming to grips with the fact was horrible struggle.

[Anonymous No.14795085]

>>14787615
As long as you are happy where you are, I'm happy for you! You should be proud of yourself. I wish great things for you

[Anonymous No.14795149]

>>14787615
I like that mug. I may go out and try to acquire a similar mug. Thank you for posting this image containing this style of mug.

[Anonymous No.14795179]

>>14793846
Shut up you dumb femoid

[Anonymous No.14795195]

>>14787615
That's awesome, man.

[Anonymous No.14795198]

>>14787615
>>decent pay
doubt, i wouldnt even get out of bed for less than 50k a year at this point

[Anonymous No.14795199]

I can't imagine enjoying work

Any kind of work, it's all equally horrible

[Anonymous No.14795204]

>>14787615
Reminder to be kind to your dishwashers, we keep your trade tools clean and ready for you.
Also fuck waitresses who don't dump food out before stacking shit up in the sink, it takes you whores an extra five seconds come on now.

[Anonymous No.14795205]

working as a line cook will eventually kill the joy in cooking

never do anything you enjoy for money, it will ruin it once you have to do it to pay your bills

[Anonymous No.14795252]

>>14793467
After highschool I meandered a bit not knowing what I wanted to do with my life. I graduate tradeschool in december and will be set with a job in January, this is just for money for a place.

[Anonymous No.14795257]

>>14795252
>falling for the trade school meme

yikes enjoy getting your job automated in a few years

[Anonymous No.14795268]

>>14795257
Not gonna happen, NDT processes become automated but they all still require a trained human eye to set up, calibrate, and inspect. Not to mention a lit of our work is field work on pipelines and oil rigs where you can't get huge automated things other than pipe pigs to work, and even then pipe pigs are controlled by inspectors and just do the ultrasonics work.

[Anonymous No.14795285]

>>14795199
I think I'd be happy with some kind of job where I can work as much or as little as I want, exactly when I want to, where if I feel like it I can do 80 hours one week and then not work at all for two, and still make enough to get by

[Anonymous No.14795301]

>>14795268
>they all still require a trained human eye to set up, calibrate, and inspect

remember when the auto industry said this too? apex kek anon. i hope you remember this post when you are in the welfare line in 5 years

[Anonymous No.14795396]

>>14794825
It’s a step above drive thru shit and normal fast food, but it’s basically still sloppa. I get what you mean, anon, but you gotta start somewhere to get where you want to be. And I would imagine future employers would see “line cook at Olive Garden/Red Robin/Fuddrucker’s” with more potential value than “fry cook at Wendy’s/McDonald’s/Burger King”. >>14795149
He has it where you can dump like 10 $ on his patreon and he’ll send you one. I think.
>>14793446
I said I like this board and the shitposts it produces. You’re a dumb fucking faggot if you think that this board will be nothing but quality content. This is a fucking Thai chili pepper forum, what do you expect to get out of coming here?

[Anonymous No.14795454]

>>14793241
Aw damn, good morning! Good to see this stayed bumped through the night. Here's probably more information than you wanted, but some of it might be useful.
>Majored in English and History, took a Japanese class 7 semesters out of 8
>Only reason I was able to do all that was because I had a fuckton of AP credits that counted – One major should be enough, but if you can try for honors in it
>Studied abroad in Japan 1 semester (junior year), didn't help with my language skills too much but helped a LOT with my language confidence, my ability to actually trust myself to talk in Japanese
>Applied to the job before I graduated (which you can do as long as you graduate before you're hired) so they didn't know I was actually going to get honors or anything when I was accepted

Statement of Purpose:
>Focus not on what Japan can do for you, but on what you can do for Japan: Way too many people say that the JET Program would be good for them, but don't say why they would be an asset to it in return
>Don't say that you want to live/work in Japan once your time in the Program is up, even if you do; They're looking for "people who will go to Japan, love it, come back, and tell all their American friends back home how awesome Japan is" more than they're looking for "people who will go to Japan, love it, and stay there."

Interview:
>Japanese language ability is only bonus points. Don't count on this to carry you through the process if you have a weakness in other areas.
>Interviewers are 2-3 Western former JETs, 1 Japanese person (usually, at least)
>Questions are mostly "What's your experience teaching kids, what grades would you be most comfortable teaching, what would you do if you got assigned a place outside your comfort zone," etc.
>You can find a list at https://drive.google.com/file/d/1k-LExTOXnxa-YkOte6T1WX-kQ2OX4fFA/view?usp=sharing
(1/2)

[Anonymous No.14795566]

>>14795454
>There will always be ONE total broadside question in the interview about your opinion on racism or gay rights or some other hot-button political issue, or a historical thing like the atomic bombings. This thing requires a bit more explanation.
A lot of people out there will tell you that this question isn't graded based on the content of your response, only the quality; It's basically a way of seeing how you respond towards something totally unexpected, with the goal of seeing you address it in a calm and tactful manner.
This is true, but it's also possible to give a "wrong answer" to this as well. While Japan itself is a generally more conservative country than the US, the types of people who go on the JET Program (and, consequently, the types of people who end up staffing the interview panels after they come back) are usually very far to the left. For example, one of mine was a literal tranny. You want to give a response that will satisfy the one native Japanese member of your panel (who will be a consulate staff member) as well as the three American former JETs who will have left-leaning sympathies. Make sure you can give a centrist or center-left response and make it sound genuine without spilling autism: That's the way to succeed on this question.

>After the English questions the Japanese person will talk to you a bit in Japanese if you've indicated that you know it. It should be about something easy, like why you like Japan or your favorite Japanese food.
>Try and have 1-2 questions for them when they ask you, I asked them if they'd been involved in after-school clubs when they were over there

And last but not least: DON'T make your Statement of Purpose or your interview about how anime/manga/J-Pop/etc. got you interested in Japan first, even if it did. They get a ton of those letters and having a different reason can help you stand out.
(2/3)

[Anonymous No.14795603]

>>14795566
For me, yeah, it was anime, but instead I talked (probably par for the course for /ck/) about how I got really into Japanese cooking and started learning the language so I could read JP cookbooks. (Granted it was the Shokugeki no Souma cookbook, but they didn't need to know that.) It's probably OK to mention it, but definitely don't give it more than a sentence, and if you do mention it make sure to quickly segue into how it got you interested in Japanese culture more broadly. I guess if you got interested in Japan through TV drama or live-action movies or literature, that might fly better to focus on than anime since those are pretty normalfag things to watch in Japan.

[Anonymous No.14795714]

>>14795204
You're paid hourly, they're paid by the table. Do your fuckin job dish monkey

[Anonymous No.14795780]

>>14787615
>kitchen
>everyone puts in effort to get shit done
If this is true you won the lottery.

[Anonymous No.14796000]

>>14795454
>>14795566
>>14795603
Wow, thank you anon. This was very insightful and helpful to what I need to know. Not too much information at all. I do plan on staying in Japan after JET and if it isn’t feasible maybe move down under. I just want to live outside my comfort zone for some time before I settle down and start a career. These posts were awesome and I’m screen shotting them for future reference.

[Anonymous No.14797670]

>>14796000
No problem, anon! Also, checked.
The interview questions are mostly going to relate to stuff in your Statement of Purpose, so expect them to have read it and get ready to give your own responses consistent with it. This also kind of extends to the broadside question as well, they want to choose something that'll dig at you a bit. Like for me I mentioned in my resumé that I was a leader of a firearms club on campus and so they asked me something like "How would you respond if a Japanese guy walked up to you and said that America is a horrible place because people are always shooting each other in the streets and shooting up schools?"
And so I basically said yeah, those are problems, but even Japan itself hasn't banned guns and that the US might benefit from taking a page out of Japan's book on things (while going on to recap a bit of my knowledge about gun control over there for specifics).