Long hours, decent pay, loss of social life, never see the sun, what more could you want?

I know Ken paid his dues, anyone else?

I'm pursuing a life as a chef, I recently found this little thing they call 'country clubs,' and think I found my calling.

Herp keeping requires a certain breed, so do restaurants, resorts, and hotels, just wondering who else slugs (or slugged) it out behind the swinging doors in an over sized oven. I wouldn't trade it for anything in the world, except maybe a house in the tropics.

i worked at a cafe for years doing everything waitress/cashier/cook/dishwasher, it was fun while it lasted but i'm way too clumsy to be around a deep fryer. oh the scars that I have lol.

I also served my time doing housekeeping at a hotel in town, i worked with good people but that job was **** and i'll never do it again!

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Yes my name is D... Yes as in the letter... No i wont tell you what it stands for!!!

I bussed tables ONE DAY and realized it wasn't for me.

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My name is Liz
Do what's best for the animal, not what's best for you.

I bussed tables for one summer in college (for a great restaurant in Williamsburg, VA -- the pay was actually very good for bussing). I waited at a little side-of-the-road family diner for ONE night before I quit, lol. The owner asking me to stay late so he could go up on the roof and fix the antenna during an intense lightning story really sealed the deal, as far as I was concerned (I don't work for idiots).

My real forte was scooping ice cream. I did that for years in high school and college, and I have the hips to prove it!

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Amy

I was a parent to 4 children!! LOL!
I've cooked and cleaned PLENTY!

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Merlin,
What's Life Without A Little Magic!

I was a slave when I was in high school. My parents wouldn't let me get a job that I couldn't bike to. So I ended up being a farm hand for our neighbour. It worked out to be about $3 an hour. I did everything. Cleaning out calf pens that are 2 feet deep isn't worth $3 an hour. I quit after a month.

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Mike
"Never worry about numbers. Help one person at a time, and always start with the person nearest you." - Mother Teresa

Wow you did that for a month Mike?
I started at 16 biking or skateboarding a few miles to work for 5$/hr to wash dishes at a nice little place chisled into an extremely old hotel, it was...interesting but paid for my trip to Costa Rica

My first job was at a bakery, lol..Oh joy, nothing like delivery donuts after a night of partying. I think I feel asleep once outside one of the stores, oops. Then my second was a bank slave..I hated it.

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MARSHA

:D I'm smiling because I have no idea whats going on!

Nothing with cooking or cleaning, but that was mostly how I felt when I worked at a local newspaper. I did ads for that paper for 3 years. They expected you to work at all hours of the day and night, getting ads done or putting the paper together after the editors finally got done with it, deal with difficult clients - which the reps were supposed to do, not the graphic designers - when they no longer wanted to deal with them, clean the office, and fix problems with computers, printers, fax machines and/or the network they all ran on.

All for about a dollar or two over minimum wage, with no expectations of being recognized or rewarded for anything good we did.

I don't know why I stuck it out for three years. I think it was mostly for the health care.

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"Let's eat, Grandpa!"
"Let's eat Grandpa!"

Punctuation. It saves lives.