A lot of students think about attending cooking school. Unfortunately, a lot of those students also end up changing their minds. The main reason for this is that they aren’t certain that they want to spend the rest of their lives working in a restaurant. What these students should know is that there are a lot of things that you can do after cooking school if you decide that restaurant work isn’t right for you.

For example, students who have graduated from a cooking school might want to enter the profession of writing. They can write cookbooks, work as food reviewers for magazines or start their own cooking blog. Having the education will assist them in doing well in this type of work.

Alternatively, students may use their culinary education to find work in food demonstration. They may set up food demos at conventions or do video blogging of food preparation. This would allow them to do cooking for a living without actually having to work in a restaurant.

The important thing for students to realize is that a cooking school education is only a starting point. It’s a great way to get into restaurant work but it can also lead to many other types of jobs. If you enjoy cooking then you shouldn’t dismiss the option of going to cooking school just because you aren’t totally sure that restaurant work is your calling.

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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.

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