When people say that money cannot buy happiness they never worked a salary job.
As head chef of a growing corporate restaurant I sacrificed my personal life and every given moment of my life in hopes of a established career with financial gain.
It was the biggest mistake I have ever made. It was on the lines of manipulation and deceit. False promises and hopes and dreams that are far from reality.
I was sold on a life style that was far more glamorous than it was. Let this be an eye opener for all of you out there who think being a career chef is like what they are it seem in the media.
The truth...
You will work hours on end with no break and on your feet.
You will be so busy at times that you might not even get to eat. (Yes as a chef you will cook for others but can't eat your own food or even anything)
You will have to constantly tell people to do a job they should already know how to do.
You will not have a life.
You will be so tired that minutes, hours, days will blend together.
Now this may have been just me but like many of my employees that have come and gone they were in and out as they saw it as how it was.
Money is not everything. But when you give everything you have to make that dollar and to grow and evolve you either get noticed or you don't.
For me, I gave it everything I had and more. I never got anything more than just more responsibility. I wasn't happy with what I was handed but it would have been a great situation for me if the work I was putting in was as financially correct to what I was doing. So... Money does and could have bought me happiness.
Argument will say we always want more. True! But sometimes what we do also has to have an equal or greater outcome. I gave 120% and got 50% back.
All in all happiness comes at a price and for most of us it is money. How many homeless or jobless do you know that are happy with their situation? I don't know any but I do know a lot of well paid people who have a smile ear to ear and no complaints about their job.
Only Their Gain... Not mine or anyone who makes it happen.
