Would You Rather Be a Pastry Chef or a Personal Chef to Someone Famous?

July 11, 2009

It's hard to pass judgment on a career you haven't had, but forget education, relevant experience, and interview contacts for a second. Which career do you think is cooler?

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9 Comments

CoconutPie 3 years

Personal chef. I hate baking and dealing with only one client would probably a lot easier than dealing with a whole lot of customers.

cg130 3 years

I think I would probably get fat if I was a pastry chef, hahah

danizzle 3 years

personal chef! i love love love cooking and would love to personally prepare some of my signature dishes for celebrities!

3 years

Having been a pastry chef, it is definitely more glamorous than it looks. You head to work in the dark. You're lugging around 50-pound bags of flour and sugar. You suffer a great deal of oven burns on your arms and hands. You go home with bits of hardened dough crusted on your hands and arms that you have to shower to remove. I also hear that people want to be pastry chefs because they love sweets, but you end up losing your taste for them after being around sugar so much.

Spectra 3 years

Pastry chef for sure! I love baking and being creative in the kitchen. It would all be wasted if I were whipping up egg white omelets and seaweed smoothies for some Hollywood snob.

sonya ina 3 years

I love baking, so pastry chef! It runs in the family... when my grandfather was still alive, he owned a bakery.

jmichelle 3 years

Pastry chef all the way. Besides having a sweet tooth, I enjoy baking far more than I do cooking. It's weird- I actually loathe cooking but baking is so much fun to me.