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naunga

naunga

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Well I submitted my application for Admissions to the Art Institute of Atlanta's Culinary Arts program.

Yep, Naunga's going to be a chef. Hopefully if all goes well I'll be start classes in January.

The beauty of it all is that even if I'm not done with my PPL, I'll still be able to fly (and work on my cloud ticket if I'm done with my PPL).

Anyhow, I'll keep you all posted.

Later.

Naunga
 
I am hungry, fix me up
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Congrats on making the decision. I pondered a chef career for a while back when I was filling in for some chefs at Disney. By that time, I was just burned out on working in commercial kitchens, though. I still like to cook around the house, so I guess I decided to make cooking a hobby and flying a job, sorta the exact opposite of what you decided.
 
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Congrats on making the decision. I pondered a chef career for a while back when I was filling in for some chefs at Disney. By that time, I was just burned out on working in commercial kitchens, though. I still like to cook around the house, so I guess I decided to make cooking a hobby and flying a job, sorta the exact opposite of what you decided.

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Probably make more as a chef or is that a myth like pilots make a lot of cash?

When will we see you on IRON CHEF Naunga?
 
Chef at disney (or culinary as they're called) start about $7.25/hr. Once you make it to the Sous (sp?) Chef level, the money gets a bit better.
 
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Well average (average mind you) starting salary for a prep cook with an education and a Certified Culinary credential is around $29K, I suspect I'll start working for someone else at about $17K...same as a pilot, but longer hours and less comfortable work environment.

After a few years it's like anything else I could end up making millions, or nothing.

As far as Iron Chef, I'd love to do Iron Chef America and wipe that smug look off of Bobby Flay's face.

Naunga
 
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There is no money as a chef unless you own your own resturaunt.

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This is true to a point. I mean it all depends on what you consider money. You can make a decent workable living at a hotel or resort (ala Disney or Hilton), but you certainly won't be living the high life.

Owning your own place doesn't guarantee even a workable living, as most new restaurants close their doors within the first year, which leaves the owner with a lot of bills to cover with no income.

Cooking certainly isn't a field that people go into for the money, and if they do they're fools. It's long hours on your feet, it's putting up with a lot of BS, burns, cuts, sore backs, nasty grease traps, drunken customers who get pissed off, because you don't cook things the way their mother did, it's working holidays and weekends, and possibly never seeing your spouse, GF, etc. except when you crawl -- exhausted -- into bed (the lifestyle is a lot like being a pilot).

But...

The feeling you get when you send a dish out that the customer loves or when you get when you're buried in the weeds and you battle your way out and every dish goes right out to the table, and the customers love them is incredible!

It's passion man!

Naunga
 
Just an update I've been accepted (as if there was any doubt
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I'm starting January 9, 2006 and CAN NOT WAIT!

Naunga
 
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Congrats! How about Lumpia?

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I'd never heard of Lumpia until now...that sounds awesome.

I'll get right on that.

Naunga
 
Hey Complex, how do you know about Lumpia? Are you Filipino, married to one, or were ever in the Navy?
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Hey Complex, how do you know about Lumpia? Are you Filipino, married to one, or were ever in the Navy?
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Olangapo?
 
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Let's see... No, No, and No. Father worked for UAL and we got to HNL when the maintenance was closed at DTW. Grew up on that, fishcake, and some other great dishes!
 
Awesome, naunga! I have always been interested in being a chef. I looked into a few culinary arts programs before making professional aviation my #1 goal. I hope to someday, if possible, go to school again for culinary arts. It has always been a fantasy of mine to open my own restaurant with my own menu. Congrats, again, on the decision!!
 
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Awesome, naunga! I have always been interested in being a chef. I looked into a few culinary arts programs before making professional aviation my #1 goal. I hope to someday, if possible, go to school again for culinary arts. It has always been a fantasy of mine to open my own restaurant with my own menu. Congrats, again, on the decision!!

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Just out of curiousity, what was it that changed your mind about cooking?

Naunga
 
Well know that are you set in the south you must learn to cook grits and eggs. And also so fatback and chitlins.
 
Oh boy I been eatin' grits since I was a kid.

Gotta grandmother from NC. So grits are not a problem.

Fatback and chitlins are a different story.

Never had 'em, but I figure I will sooner or later.

Naunga
 
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