Could it be at the end of the day she would be jobless like a man with two or three wives and none of them would love him?
By NZChefSi@ChefSarawak
I heard my sisters grumbled over the Viber at the end of November last year, “There is such a dude that we are willing to pay her air-tickets and all the traveling expenses and worse still, we have to beg her to come for the family reunion for the past 12 months!”
Eventually, the brainiest sister finally could convince me with a good reason, she said, “Come on, your passport will be expired soon, this is the best opportunity for you to renew your passport while attending the family reunion, one bird two stones!”
When I returned Auckland yesterday, the immigration officer couldn’t understand why I had changed a new passport that would be expired in May 2019. Actually, it only valid if I travel between now to November. But if I want to apply for an American visa, this new passport will lest me from many hassles as well.
The minute I returned to Auckland, my Beijing house guest enthusiastically told me that she has found me a chef job which a while back she strongly discouraged me said that a chef job would be too rough for me after she saw how my trial out jobs were all being unpaid. But in this special case due to a friend of her son needs a chef for his fast food outlet. She was very optimistic, she told me not to mention that I had worked for a Chinese restaurant before, I asked her, “Do you think anyone would employ me just because you described to your son's friend like I am a magician?” I went with her reluctantly to the interview, all because it’s hard for her, the boss is the friend of her son, it’s hard for me, my experience told me it’s better for me to work only for a total stranger instead of for someone who is somewhere related to one of my friends or one of my ex-classmates, family members or relatives.
But I never regretted to attend the interview, because I found out one of the main reasons why I couldn’t get a chef job in Auckland even I am a PR. This Chinese guy told me, “I employ a mother with two toddlers at home, she only works in the earliest shift.” But he couldn’t employ a person like me who requested a part-time job similarly but I have to teach piano. He told me, “I won’t allow this happened, western chefs, will strictly not allow this situation happened as well.” No wonder my friends all told me that I was being too honest, I learned that being honest doesn’t land me a job in the chef industry where I have not meet yet an equal standing chef who could resonate with me, although my western and religious education taught me to be honest, then I have forgotten New Zealand is an atheist country, money is people’s god, it hints me that some people here may tango very well with foreigners coming from the socialist background who are also atheist.
I remember when I was running two music schools before, I encouraged all my employed piano teachers to teach their neighborhood kids at home, I told them as long as they didn’t work for another music school I would allow them to teach and actually earned much more money at home, but I could offer them better prospects like helping them to acquire teaching diplomas and keep exposing and upgrading them with workshops, masterclasses or even retreats to be trained as a better piano teacher. Of course, they were some staffs ran off with the students to open their new music schools, there are unethical people all over the world, but I counted on those who were honest and we are friends still after I dissolved the business.
Most people can’t digest a piano teacher also works as a chef or a chef also works as a piano teacher, I always wonder is it because they can’t handle two different jobs discretely and efficiently that’s why they think everyone can’t handle it? Well, I understand why, when some people can’t even make their own fingers to listen to their commands, I can’t blame their one-dimensional dexterity and mentality.
Most people don’t allow an unestablished person to run two or three business, yet ironically, they would admire a rich entrepreneur who runs every kind of businesses. If a boss or a chef is open- minded and big heart enough, why he minds his employer who could earn at least two times more hourly wage from her other part-time profession yet willing to take a minimum salary job to crouch in a kitchen where she could hear FUCK often? Honestly, I love cooking, negativities and lies BS to me by chef after chef… I treated that either as rubbish or compost. I believe one later day I will be able to meet a mentor who can resonate with me and will take me under his wings to further enhance my culinary interest, experience and skills.
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