They called me.
As a cook I applied to a 5 Diamond restaurant, one of the top rated restaurants in the country.
They called me!
It is one of those restaurants if you can endure and succeed at, it can be a 'game changer' for you future as a chef.
I can remember applying, being fresh out of culinary school, and even though I had worked for some good chefs, my resume was incredibly thin. Even when I was applying to the restaurant I can remember chuckling, thinking that they would never call on me.
They did. And set up a tryout for me in a few weeks.
My heart pumped with excitement, anticipation, but mostly fear. Fear that I didn't haver enough experience, fear that I was out of my league, fear...frankly...that I wasn't good enough. I even went into the tryout consoling myself that I should be honored just to have even having a try out.
The restaurant was in the middle of nowhere, literally. My reception for my cell phone completely died leading up to the restaurant. It was in the evening, early evening, and it looked as if the entire town had already turned in for the night.
The restaurant had politely set me up with a snack, and a place to lay my head as I would be trying out in the evening.
That evening and through the night I couldn't sleep. I had the worst stomach cramps, all night it felt like my stomach was in knots, then would untie, loop around, and then form a double knot.
To the average person this might seem silly, someone being this nervous about working in a kitchen adn preparing food, but this is my passion, this was my try out for the LA Lakers for a ten day contract. If I make it, and prove myself, my career could changed DRASTICALLY.
And for that night, I couldn't sleep....
