Once I finished my culinary training-or cooking school as my older brother so kindly referred to it-I was ready to get back to teaching.  My sister was about to graduate, and I was ready to move on from home.

Unfortunately, I had missed the boat on the English teacher shortage of two years prior, when just about everybody from my secondary English teaching program got a job exactly where he or she wanted to teach.  For instance, Jack Roberts had somehow managed to get a job in Hawaii-I would have liked to teach in Hawaii-and Nikki Dominique found a teaching job in the suburbs of New Jersey, the best public schools in the country-I would have liked that.  The only openings this year were low paying jobs in the rural south or in the inner city.

Those were not exactly my dream locations, so I did some research and found out that the next school year would probably have a lot more opportunities, so I began looking for something around home.  Unfortunately, the non-shortage had also affected home.  I needed something in teaching, though, so I put my brain to work.  What could a secondary English teacher with a culinary arts degree do for a job?

Home ec.

And so I traveled to the depths of the culinary world, hoping to emerge strong in a year.

Thanks sis.

Technorati Tags: cooking school, Culinary Arts, culinary training, English