I appreciate your evaluation of waiting tables as being a job that involves physical work (hot plates, standing, walking, carrying) and artful work (verbal skills, kindness, presentation etc).
Maybe not everyone can do it, but once I got laid off from my 4th or 5th IT sales job in 6 years, I said to myself, "self, it's time to find something more stable".
The very first people to offer me a shot were a very busy italian restaurant, and everything is going amazingly well considering when I started, I didn't know how to make an espresso or hold 3 plates!
Still, it is really shocking to me that so many of my colleagues are in the same boat: Reputable college degree, no stable office job.
Our customers are all mostly old/retired couples. We appreciate their patronage heavily, but we greatly wonder why their money is being spent on food and entertainment rather than high tech skills.
This forces us to specialize in skills that will never deliver a 10x leap in innovation. The market for food service is saturated and we will never make enough to jump to the upper class.
>This forces us to specialize in skills that will never deliver a 10x leap in innovation. The market for food service is saturated and we will never make enough to jump to the upper class.
That's the flipside of it being more stable. To make a jump, you need something that's higher variance, which IT sales certainly is.
Maybe not everyone can do it, but once I got laid off from my 4th or 5th IT sales job in 6 years, I said to myself, "self, it's time to find something more stable".
The very first people to offer me a shot were a very busy italian restaurant, and everything is going amazingly well considering when I started, I didn't know how to make an espresso or hold 3 plates!
Still, it is really shocking to me that so many of my colleagues are in the same boat: Reputable college degree, no stable office job.
Our customers are all mostly old/retired couples. We appreciate their patronage heavily, but we greatly wonder why their money is being spent on food and entertainment rather than high tech skills.
This forces us to specialize in skills that will never deliver a 10x leap in innovation. The market for food service is saturated and we will never make enough to jump to the upper class.