It has been over 4 months(!!) since I left RM seafood. I traveled all over Europe and looked up my possible job everywhere I went. I did have actual job offers and possible job offers in Germany, Netherlands, Belgium, UK, Denmark and Finland, BUT unfortunately NOTHING was "right". I'm sure that I'm extremely picky about my job way more than I should be. But 4 months no job now, it getting real heavy!!
It is hard to find Sous chef job in Europe, but I say actually the reactions I had are not "too bad" than I thought. There're many restaurants who replied to my resume, and all of them are very positve and mostly saying "althought they have no sous chef position opeing at this moment, would love to keep in touch and will consider me as a possible job applicant at further opportunies. So hopefully this CJWDT'10 will help my career in near future.
Thanks god, surprisingly I still leave some saving on my pocket, but I definely have to find my new job within this year(a bitter smile). It's the end of the year which could be the worst time to find a new job though.. I was in Helsinki probably like 3 wks and tried to get a job everywhere in Europe to Asia.... but no luck! And now.....
I'm in Tokyo, Japan!! It has been 5 days and I'll knock up some doors tommorrow, then just to see what happens. As I posted previously on "My spirit: Tattoos", it is extremely hard to find a job with my tattoos, my hair and also my Americanize personality!! Also generally people in Japan work for same company long term like 5-7 yrs easily to entire career,so which make my situation tougn. I say Japan could be the hardest place to get a job in the world.... for me!! I would like to say one thing about Japan... In my opinion, Japan is "major league of cooking" like the U.S.A. for baseball.
Well trained culinary skills, stoic samurai-like mentality, hard working nationality, the perfect balance of old tradition and new innovation, the world best ingredients, deep knowledge on "core" and "umaimi" on each ingredients, the understanding on the seasonality... and Japanese people fuckin' love foods!! Every weeks Japanese chefs always come up new innovative dishes and new restaurant concepts. From dollar snacks, 5 bucks ramen noodles, 10 bucks lunch deals, 30 bucks izakaya supper to Michelin star dining... the level of foods in Japan are RIDICULOUS!! Then why I don't work here? I just fuckin' hate this country!!
Anyway... the following is the restaurant list for CJ job hunting in Japan'10!!
Tokyo
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