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Posted on 08/30/2018 9:12:49 AM PDT by 11th_VA
For Alexandria Butler-McDow, 28, going to university didn’t provide the freedom and financial security she'd hoped for. After graduating with an associate’s degree from the California Culinary Academy (CCA) in San Francisco, CA, in 2008, Butler-McDow struggled to find a job that would allow her to support herself and her disabled mother while also paying off her enormous student loan bill.
Hopeful that a more advanced degree would help her make more money and better manage her debt, Butler-McDow went on to pursue a bachelor’s degree in culinary nutrition, concentrating on clinical dietetics at Johnson and Wales University (JWU) in Providence, RI. By the time she had finished her second degree, Butler-McDow was even deeper in debt.
Now, nearly four years after graduating with her second degree, Butler-McDow (better known as Chef Alexandria at Better Taste Productions) is a Los Angeles-based chef and culinary consultant focusing on nutrition and education — and she is still six figures in debt. Though she has defaulted on her loans and deferred some of her payments, the end of this ordeal is still out of her reach. “We are sold the notion that getting an education is what will improve our socioeconomic standing,” Butler-McDow told Refinery29. “My degrees were supposed to bring me out of poverty but they’ve just anchored me.” ...
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She should have watched the ten years of Chopped episodes in which it is revealed over and over again the sad lot of chefs and cooks. An education in and of itself.
How do you rack up $100k in a 2 year cooking school?
She got hustled.
I have two relatives that graduated from Le Cordon Bleu, far less expensive. They also have to intern for a year and have great jobs, what happened here?
Dear Alexandria,
Stupid is supposed to hurt.
Love,
L
She is a cook. She spent $100K for an Associates and Bachelor Degrees that despite the fancy names translates to Cook. Cooks don’t need degrees, they need to be able to produce a product that customers are willing to pay for. The degrees provides no value added. She is hosed, especially since I suspect, she can’t cook.
This is a perfect example of a person who needed to do an apprentice in several restaurant kitchens and learn how to cook.
Sounds like one was set up. Unscrupulous? When you got parents wanting their kids to go to college and BJ tearfully saying how one was the first in their family to go to college they then leave it for Trump and the GOP to clean up the mess. Free college for everyone! Sound familiar? 4 years not in the work force. Make that 5-6. Starbucks at 25? Those lattes take a lot of skill to make.
Here’s the thing that pisses me off the most about these whiny little Loser Snowflakes. THEY WON’T Work!
Right now in all 50 states she could hire in as a Cook in most all State or Federal Prisons. The ones that are Union Workers make 50-70k.
So while she isn’t getting the Job of Chef for a U.S. Supreme Court Justice, she isn’t looking for anything less either. While she defaults on her loans and we all get to foot the bill.
Jesus, Mary, and Joseph. $100K in student loans for an ASSOCIATE’S DEGREE in culinary arts???????????????
Just wow. Wow.
And then doubled down getting a Batchelor’s Degree? Granted, that might help get a $60K job, but...ugh.
High end restaurants tend to hire from these culinary institutions. You do learn a lot at culinary school - I did one year - and it is not easy. But even high end restaurants do not pay line chefs a great deal of money. You have to work yourself up in a very difficult industry.
“My family believes that you’re supposed to pay rent” You mean like the rest of the world “believes” that lodging costs money? What a concept? Does this idiot believe she should be able to just walk into the Hampton Inn and demand a room free of charge?
For around $5,500, you can get training to pass a CDL exam and have multiple job offers when you graduate. Here in PA, there are even state programs to help you pay about 3/4th of the cost because they are that confident it will turn into gainful employment.
I’m 28 and I’m an idiot.
I’m 28 and I don’t have the brains god gave a cabbage.
Add one more Johnson & Wales in Providence.
Libtard to the end.
Many people struggle to find jobs that pay $75,000 plus. She needs to find ANY job, shouldn't be hard finding a cooking job at a restaurant and maybe have to work on the weekend until she finds something else. The real problem, many don't want to work, period. And if they do, they want a $100,000 per year job to start :)
You can tell she has little networking ability and little drive. They very fact that she made no connections with companies that might want to hire her in 5 years of school should tell you something.
A friend of the family went to a culinary school. I think they said it cost over $10,000, and was about a six month course. But he has gotten jobs as chefs. It paid off for him.
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Our friend also said the school was very active in placement of their graduates into jobs.
This gal is finding that nobody cares about her degrees from these places. She’s learning some hard facts of Life.
This is what gamblers call throwing good money after bad.
In the military this is known as reinforcing failure.
They must have to buy what they eat, and they must eat Kobe filet and lobster every day and wash it down with caviar ad Domn
I’d like to know exactly what lucrative career she was ‘supposed’ to get from either of her degrees. Sounds like she could work at an old folks home or a hospital as a dietician but that isn’t huge money. It’s basically head cook.
She would have been better off going to a good culinary school to become a chef.
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Socialists will run on student debt bailout promises.
Just watch.
Create problem, promise fix, destroy economy robbing from the rich, rinse, repeat.
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