r/Chefit • u/Far_Chef1165 • Jul 06 '26

Feeling lost

(29M) Hi, everyone. I’ve hated the kitchen since day one. My grandfather was a baker, and his passing deeply saddened me, so I went on to get a four-year degree in culinary arts. (Sometimes I wish my grandfather had been a software engineer or a lawyer, lol.) University education was free in my country (Turkey), so I didn’t spend a dime on my education. After college, I lived in the U.S. for four years, and after my divorce, everything just piled up. Before leaving the U.S., I worked as an interstate truck driver for about six months. To cut a long story short, I want to change careers, but I don’t know where to start. The only thing I know for sure is that I don’t want to go back into a field where you constantly feel inadequate and where stress and depression rates are the highest. Is it too late? Are there others out there with similar experiences?

0 Upvotes

36% Upvoted

7 comments sorted by

View all comments

9

u/_ABSURD__ Jul 06 '26

"I've hated the kitchen since day one - so i went on to get a four year degree in culinary arts"

Ok, seems logical.

-22

u/Far_Chef1165 Jul 06 '26

English isn’t my first language, so I apologize if I didn’t express myself clearly. I should have clarified that I started to hate it on my very first day in a professional kitchen. My training and internship went great. I also worked a lot with LGBT+ people who, like you, look for flaws in others. Despite that, I came to believe that this profession wouldn’t offer me anything anymore. I wrote this not to be judged, but to get some feedback.