Sheldon wrote:

> TigBits wrote:
> > Hi group-
> >
> > Due to some recent major changes in my life, I'm debating a complete 180
> > degree change in my career, and I'm seriously contemplating a degree in the
> > culinary arts. I'm 35 yrs old.
>
> I know this is going to sound horrendously brutal but it's the truth,
> you are too old... by at least 15 years, more like 20. The truth is
> that at your age people go to culinary school to pick up a few pointers
> to improve their homemaker cooking skills some but will never be any
> good as a pro. If you've had years of professional cooking experience
> previously and want the degree to add to your resume then go for it...
> otherwise you'll be wasting your time and money, because I seriously
> doubt you'll last a week at any job above burger flipper. To first
> enter the culinary field at 35 to become a professional cook is
> tantamont to taking your first ballet lesson at 35 in hopes of becoming
> a prima ballerina. For either ideally one must begin at about age
> five. You can be the best home cook of everyone you know but put you
> in a professional kitchen you'd not know up from down. Home cooking is
> as different from professional cooking as night from day... the reason
> many food tv celebrity cooks appear so clumsy and inept is because they
> are pandering to home cooks, when in fact they themselves stink at home
> style cooking. People who cook for a living rarely cook at home, and
> they laugh at all the rage in expensive designer kitchens, because
> none, absolutely NONE are designed for professional cooking.
>
> Sheldon

And all this is based on personal experience???