[mistermann]

As someone who's been on both sides of the fence, any theories on how they manage to find people to work in cooking, sometimes with really high skill levels, for such long hours for relatively horrible pay?

I mean some I know are very intelligent people, and extremely good at what they do, but make like $50k working 60+ hours per week. It's insane.

[Ntrails]

Some people truly love it, it's an actual passion. I did work experience at a 2 Michelin Star place, and honestly I've never seen anything like it. I had thought my hours were long - but this was insane. Despite how hard the work was, everyone there was enthusiastic as hell. They saw that one day they'd be able to create the exquisite food, plate it up and send it. That was all they wanted to do.

For those guys (and it was almost all guys) - it was just the only thing they wanted to do in life. This was also kinda the moment I realised it wasn't for me!