The cooking industry is like a drug. You want to stop doing it, but you can't.
You want to change careers, but all people see on your resume is "cooking" and it gets tossed out.

You want a chance to show your transferable skills, but no one will give you a fair shot.

This industry beats you down, destroys you, takes away your happiness, kills any confidence or self-esteem until you're a shell of your former self. It's like being in an abusive relationship. You don't know what's out there, and you stay where it's "safe."

You become bitter, old, angry, irritable to the point you either drive people away, or you shut down and block them out.

It slowly kills you from the inside out, until you are too beaten down and weak to fight anymore.


It's like a drug.