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Jose Gonzalez

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Chef
Author Name: 
Jose Gonzalez

The name of my career is a Chef. My career is about direct preparation of food & ingredients. Plan and price orders. It is required to have an associates degree which is an undergraduate degree that is rewarded after doing a course of post-secondary study that lasts two to three years. You’ll need to do a written and practical exam leading to a CC. (Certified Culinary.) The skills that you’ll need or require are: patience, multi-tasking, you’ll need to withstand the kitchen heat, and you will need good social skills.

The skills you’ll need are: Adaptability, determination, creativity, research, accuracy, planning, and responsibility. As a chef, I make about $43,431/$59,237. Hourly, as a chef I make about $9.70 - 27.60$ Annual = $43,431/$59,237. Hourly = $9.70 - $27.60 It doesn’t stay the same and it increases to $85,000. Yes, by holding a culinary degree or participating in higher educational opportunities can give you a better chance of increasing your salary. Chefs typically work in the early mornings, late evenings, weekends, and holidays. The hours that Chefs work at are at least 40 hours a day. Chefs are mostly known because of them being in restaurants, so yes. Chefs are usually working inside restaurants or houses.

Chefs have the opportunity to create new dishes and experiment. Most of them are: stress, customers, long hours, kitchen heat, and the risks. It is possible that you can become a food service manager, personal chef, or you can open your own restaurant. It is not required, but other certificates can lead to advancement. Yes because executive chefs need to manage cooks and lower level chefs. Yes so that you can stay on top of trending/popular food and to develop more skills. A specific place that you can get employed at is Google since they can tell you where you can get employed and where it is.

A typical day of my life as a chef would be: I wake up, brush my teeth, make breakfast, eat, drink coffee, go outside, drive the car to the restaurant, plan and price orders, prepare cooks for cooking, once customers come in, I tell cooks what to cook, shift ends and lunch break starts, eat, lunch break ends, continue day as usual, go home, eat dinner, sleep.