There are as many job opportunities in the professional kitchen as there are flavours. Once you’ve completed the program, you’ll be well on your way to a great and challenging career. This is a career that can take you around the world. As a professional cook, you can find work in a variety of locations; anywhere from cruise ships to private yachts, from oil drilling platforms in the North Sea to diamond mining operations in the Yukon to logging camps.

Your options will also include the many restaurants and hotels around the world. Would you like to cook for a cattle drive or perhaps be a safari cook in the wilds of Africa? Or perhaps you’d like being a private chef for the rich and famous or a government official. If you want to stay closer to home, you’ll be trained to work in all styles of kitchens ranging from a small family-style restaurant, to large multinational hotels, and health care institutions.

Be prepared for your life in the culinary trade.  As America’s fascination with food finds it’s way into the mainstream, it provides a view of the culinary world that most people had never seen before. With the rise of The Food Network, and shows like Iron Chef and Hell’s Kitchen, more and more people are entertaining the notion of taking up cooking themselves. They see a celebrity chef like Emeril Lagasse, or Bobby Flay, whipping up all sorts of fantastic creations, and think to themselves, “Hey, that looks like fun! Maybe I should be doing that too!”

What they don’t see on The Naked Chef are the years of training, hard work, and dedication that are involved to get to that point in one’s career. In a fashion similar to that of most other aspects in our society, these celebrity Chef Icons are shown as role models to the world of food, and too many people believe they’ll be on their own cooking show after a few short years in culinary school.  However, this is not the case. No one stops to think that those folks you see on T.V. are only a tiny fraction of everyone who works in the foodservice industry.

Of the hundreds of thousands of people who toil endlessly, day after day, in kitchens across the country, only a handful are given a shot at the limelight, to “magic up” Ham Hocks and Shrimp Creole on national television.  However you slice, dice, broil or bake it…life in the culinary trade can and will be fun and rewarding.

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