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I haven't worked in the industry since the late 90s so maybe it's better now?

There are positives. I learned that stress is transitory and I don't have to give in to it. Staying calm and working the system is how you survive getting slammed (overwhelmed by orders). I was in charge of a kitchen as sous chef in my early twenties, hiring people, ordering the supplies and ingredients, preparing for banquets and events. This was a massive confidence builder. I learned how to work with people I literally could not stand, and got to work with people I would back up in any situation.

Plus your going to be a good cook for the rest of your life and that's a big plus. You might not want to cook when you are not at work but you can and that's great for family entertaining and your own personal enjoyment later in life.

I also traveled to places I never would have been able to go to if I wasn't working there. I lucked out and worked in high end places, including one featured in the European Vogue Cooking magazine (meant something back then). I also worked in some dives.

I learned so much about people and myself. But you can do that a lot of other ways that pay better!

One last thing. With the exception of one or two really tough manual labor tasks I've done, no job has seemed hard after my time as a cook.

A friend of mine would occasionally do this for a few bucks every so often and liked it. But, yeah, only the person paying him thanked him.

Cook.

Kitchen staff, for the most part, work long hours in chronically understaffed kitchens for very little pay. You get a break when things slow down and chances are you're going to be eating, hitting the bathroom, and trying to get a little sit time in a milk crate out back in that short little window (hint, pick two of those, the third might not happen).

You get burned, cut, over heated, covered in filth, and breathe in noxious crap all day from stoves, fryers, industrial cleaning chemicals, and other things.

You, probably, and a lot of your coworkers are short tempered, sore, tired, and possibly on drugs or alcohol. You are surrounded by ideal weapons for hurting others and you will be in or see a fight every so often.

Wait staff pretend to like you but really they work shorter shifts, go home relatively unscathed, and make a fortune in tips. So you also dislike and resent them. You don't want to but see above.

You work when everyone else is off so you end up hanging out with people in similar situations who aren't always the best people for things like networking into a better job. They really like partying though, and who needs a future.

Then you get a little older. Maybe you are running a kitchen and finally don't need to have roommates to afford the horrible apartment but you're only there about seven hours in a row at any given time. You met someone through friends but they don't see a future because you are always working.

Eventually, health issues force you to find other work and you claw your way to normalcy 15 years behind everyone else in retirement saving, salary growth, and so on.

I mean I've worked at a hosting company that had a bunch of static sites running off an SSD connected by usb to the server so this did happen back in the day. I try not to think about those days.

"What's that? Your accounting front end that's built in obsolete front page code on an Access database isn't working again? It's probably a file lock, I'll restart IIS."

I haven't read the article because documentation is overhead but I'm guessing the real reason is because the guy who kept saying they needed to add more storage was repeatedly told to calm down and stop overreacting.

I thought this was normal. /s

Thank you for your insightful reply.

Take a look at the number of people who live in China, then look at their success at reverse engineering and copying technological products, then ask yourself what a couple of thousand of the best engineers they have could do with an unlimited budget and several years. It's it really inconceivable that they could copy and manufacture this equipment?

I've never been there but I lived in Banff, Alberta for a while when I was 19 (which was a while ago). I was cooking at a hotel there and living in residence. Sometimes I thought I'd stay there forever but I love the ocean, too. Jokes on me, I live in a city hours from the mountains and a day from the ocean now. :)

Something about a mountain town after a snow storm... Pretty cool.

Maybe I'm old but I love John Denver's Rocky Mountain High. Takes me back.

I was caught in a rip current, in close to zero Celsius salt water, with significant waves as a teenager. My wetsuit was inadequate, to say the least, and my surfboard was lost because the leash failed (think of it as a flotation device).

I was sure I was going to die. I didn't. But, yeah, every single second of my life was screaming through my brain while I pleaded with any force in the universe to save me.

I eventually got control of my breathing and swam across the rip and let the waves take me in. I was cold for a long time.

That was my first time surfing. Wasn't my last but I learned a lot that day.

The that took me there and loaned me the gear didn't even go in the water (said he was right behind me).

Now there's a fiddler for the kitchen party!

Stochastic altruism.

I did this without intending to because by wife relocated (I can work from anywhere). Very dry here and it's been great for arthritis, sinuses, exema, etc.

Manhattan at the height of a humid heat wave is hell on earth. Just the smells, alone, are enough to qualify. Still a cool place to visit.

I was on a recent business trip and signed up for a couple of days of roaming. My colleagues saved a few bucks with e-sims which was great until they needed to get an SMS for 2fa.

Both of these are incorrect. YYYY-MM-DD for life.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jellyfishbabies

I had an Uber driver in Florida last time I was there (business) and when he found out I was from Canada he told me he went to Boulder in the winter for a vacation and thought it would be cool to rent a car and drive up a mountain. Yeah, he was pretty freaked out by that driving experience. :)

Good call on the Subaru. My wife had a couple and they were great in the snow. First car we ever had with heated seats, too!

I don't know. Projects inherently get finished. That's kind of the point of projects.

Areas are "projects that are never finished".

A project is "buy Christmas gifts" but I might keep my list of gift ideas in the Areas folder in a file dedicated to tracking gift ideas (which I need because I'm terrible at that). When I get a good idea for a gift I just throw it into my inbox file and move on with my day. Occasionally, I sit down and run through that inbox and file stuff into better places (like the gift ideas file).

Resources are things that you can share publicly. You should be comfortable publishing that folder to the web, for instance.

These are meaningful distinctions for me.

I do use my projects folder like a project list. That's how I keep track of what I'm working on. I'm pretty absent minded so this system helps me to easily scan that list and figure out what I can do right now on something to make progress.

So it will snow at night but warm up during the day so you're dealing with icy conditions that have a layer of melt water on them. Or freezing rain that flash freezes at dusk to black ice. And so on.