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by Virax
6007 days ago
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I don't really understand why this is news-worthy - he took a risk and lost. The safer path would have been to keep working as a chef and then mix-in the career change, perhaps by starting a cooking-related website, blog, Facebook app, whatever. I find it quite difficult to believe that a chef with 10 years of experience could not find a job in Seattle. This beggars belief. In short, don't tempt economic fate when you have a wife and kid and live in the USA - you should not count on ANY social support in this country. |
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Or a job in a kitchen here in SF. We have more restaurants per capita than any other city in the world bar Paris. Even if it was just prep or even dish washing - it would have been some $.
It also seems like he didn't have any network here in SF, or try to build one. So many free tech events going on every night that you would think he would attend them to get a network going.
I genuinely feel sorry for this dude but he certainly made a lot of mistakes that don't indicate good judgment (the kind of "non-tech" smarts you look for in a good dev, as it happens)