"I’m not telling you that culinary school is a bad thing. It surely is not. I’m saying that you, reading this, right now, would probably be ill-advised to attend—and are, in all likelihood, unsuited for The Life in any case. Particularly if you’re any kind of normal."

This is the most important quote in the whole piece. Restaurant Life is a thing people outside of it DO NOT understand fully. Most well meaning, normal people are not compatible with it.

Do you do recreational drugs? Are you an alcoholic? Do you have a criminal record? Are you in the country illegally? If no, how are you going to deal with the fact that 75% of your coworkers meet one if not all of those criteria? How are you going to deal with the intense pressure? How are you going to make your rent, because if you want to do this in a major US metro at this point, you're going to have a hard time affording housing. How will you adapt to your new role when, inevitably, someone rage quits during their shift and you get field promoted to running their station?

I've been out of the industry for 6+ years at this point, and when I get super stressed out at my current tech job, I dream about running a restaurant. That's not to say that I want to go back, but that my mind inherently links "you are stressed out" to "you are the chef of a 2 million/year restaurant". I have never had a stress dream that involved a computer, to the best of my recollection.