SubJeff on 5/5/2013 at 22:43
I find a lot of the red tape incredibly frustrating but after a case goes well and everything is nice and comfortable afterwards I often feel really pleased. And emergencies that are handled smoothly and with a good outcome are just The Best.
The worst days are the crappiest days you can possibly imagine though because people die, many times far too young.
Scots Taffer on 6/5/2013 at 01:45
Quote Posted by Vasquez
You can't be a writer if you don't at least partly write for yourself.
I agree. I read a quote recently about writing that I liked, I can't remember who said it but it was: "Writing is the only thing that I do where I don't feel like I should be doing something else instead."
Writing is something that people who have stories within them
have to do. I miss it. :(
Quote Posted by HelloHello
True, but if you're doing it for money, then writing is still a business like anything else. You have to serve the needs of the consumer first and foremost.
If you're writing for money, unless you're incredibly, incredibly lucky, you're doing it wrong.
IMO the most important thing for a writer to do is tell their story in the best way possible. Stories either find an audience or they don't.
Quote Posted by gunsmoke
Does anyone else here absolutely love their job? I know I get excited to go to work. I actually had a guest last night (in the middle of 160 covers! We were slammed) come back to the kitchen and shake my hand and compliment my limoncello creme brulee. He said it was the most gorgeous presentation he had ever seen and that it was an 'edible work of artistic genius'.
My chef bought me a beer after work and said he'd never employed anyone in his 13 years with as much passion for his vision and gave me a FUCKING RAISE!!! I am so stoked. I hate to think too far forward and jinx the whole affair, but man, I could see myself working here as an old(er, HA!) man happy as hell to boot. I don't know anyone else who even remotely likes their job in real life.
Well done, mate. Being a chef is almost more like a vocation than a job. The passion required to put in those hours in those conditions is pretty staggering and I'm always in awe of it, particularly as I enjoy the end product as much as I do and I understand the work that goes into it - nothing irks me more than someone referring to high end dining as a "waste of money".
I love my job because it allows me to what I love (interact with people, attack "big picture" challenges, initiate change) balanced out with what I'm good at (analytics, problem solving). The application process I'm going through for my current role was interesting as my personality profile is completely at odds with my skill set and the implied personality profile for that role - I came out as more of a creative executive at an advertising firm!
Don Draper. :cool:
SlyFoxx on 6/5/2013 at 02:02
I sing and play guitar to those who will listen. Works for me so what the hey. Before that I had a 6-7 year stint on radio as the news guy. Bluffed my way into the radio job but got hired on the spot after being tossed on the air during the interview. Always had a big mouth and was never afraid of opening it. Go with what you know eh?
Yakoob on 6/5/2013 at 02:18
Quote Posted by gunsmoke
Does anyone else here absolutely love their job? [/snip about being a chef]
Quote Posted by Scots Taffer
Well done, mate. Being a chef is almost more like a vocation than a job. The passion required to put in those hours in those conditions is pretty staggering and I'm always in awe of it ...
I've always heard (and recently reading Blood, Bones & Butter by Gabriel Hamilton kind of confirms) that being a chef is really one of the "works of passion" like making art, teaching, or game programming i.e. it's really demanding for often small benefits so you really need to love it or you will end up hating it.
Personally I love cooking and been getting into it more and more the past few years, but don't think I could ever work as a chef. Both for the reasons above, and because I always thought that while experimenting with food at home may be fun, cooking the same dish day after day in a hectic kitchen sounds a little... repetitive/stressful/mundane? How do you guys keep it from boring you out?
Vasquez on 6/5/2013 at 06:08
My dad was a chef and he always loved it. He's 82 and cooks every day for himself and my mother :) (Except now that he's in hospital, but hopefully he'll be back home soon.)
Quote Posted by Scots Taffer
I read a quote recently about writing that I liked, I can't remember who said it but it was: "Writing is the only thing that I do where I don't feel like I should be doing something else instead."
Haha, that's so true! :D I heard a good one too:
"Diagnosis: Writer.
Prognosis: No cure."
Writing is a love-hate job. One day it's like a good addiction with no health risks, you can write and write all day and it keeps giving you incredible high like no other drug.
The next day you hate it and despair over the fact that you most likely can never quit, because it's still an addiction...
Scots Taffer on 6/5/2013 at 09:03
Anyone who confuses recreational cooking - even if it's high end, complex, technical stuff - and cooking for a living needs to spend a single day in a kitchen to dispel them of that theory.
I did it. Wised me up pretty damn quick!
Yakoob on 6/5/2013 at 17:02
Oh I wasn't confusing, if anything my point was that just because I enjoy recreational cooking does not mean I'd in any way enjoy doing so as a job.
june gloom on 6/5/2013 at 18:51
Actually you're pretty confusing sometimes Kooby.
Yakoob on 6/5/2013 at 19:50
Hmm, so I've been noticing, on TTLG at least. Maybe writing isn't my strongest suit?
enterJo on 7/5/2013 at 08:53
I'm a waitress
