[Bringbackthedraft]

" What about teachers in this country getting paid about as much as short order cooks,"

My son cooks and does not have a college education. Where can he get this job that pays like a teaching job. Its great, 60K a year for 180 days of work and a 35k retirement check after 25 years for a short order cook? I'm going to take up cooking too for that kind of salary.

[ConservativeMan55]

I love to cook!

[volchef]

Tell your son to go to a reputable culinary school. And I mean a good one not these knock offs springing up all over the place (ie Cordon Bleu schools). CIA in NY (my alma mater) or Johnson and Wales or New England Culinary Institute. Any of these schools will put your son in a great position to make great wages if he works hard, is talented and creative.

My husband works at a top restaurant as a sous chef and makes GREAT money....enough for me to stay at home with our children. As executive chef (which he is interviewing for now) he will easily pull 6 figures. Oh, he's gotta work corporate though or open his own place. There is no money in being the chef of a small mom and pop. They can barely afford the rent much less a chef.