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> I'm thinking pastry chef or line cook.

Have you done these jobs before? Or is this more like a programmer’s dream of some fantasy camp version of manual labor?

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I see it as someone who likes baking pastries for their family not fully understanding to what it is like to bake pastries for hours everyday. Or someone who likes to tend their garden thinking they should become a farmer. Although I'm guilty of this with regard to turning programming as a hobby into a career. At least the pay is better than my alternatives.

I'll have to do something with my hands, kitchen skills are probably the only manual labor I can do better than average.

It's not a matter of fantasizing about an idealized version of a dirty, hard blue collar job, but an honest assessment of something that will last longer than coding and will pay me money to feed myself.

I was wondering the same thing. It's backbreaking work, man. I started in kitchens after I got jaded writing software, but in comparison, getting jaded from f&b took no time at all

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