Do you have to be extremely good in going to College?

Question

This question sounds a bit weird for the title, but in general what I'm really trying to ask is, when your going to college for a precise course (medical, law, business, culinary, etc.) Do you have to be really good in it? I mean I am gradating this year as it's my final year in HS. My future dream goal is to become a chef (or something related to food). I am not that talented in cooking at all. (I can follow a recipe, eg: tomatoes with eggs or something like that. But I tend to forgot what to do first...) Is this the right path to choose, even though I am so bad at cooking??

Answer 1

You don't have to be good in what you're doing...but you do have to be dedicated. If you set your mind to it, I'm sure you can become an excellent chef.

But you must remember not to be set back by disappointments, frustrations, and possible criticism from more experienced classmates/teachers. Remember that everything is a learning experience and that you must work to learn.

Instead of enrolling in culinary school right off the bat, why don't you take a few cooking classes locally? I'm sure if you searched online or in the phone book you could find a few. They can help improve your skills and help you decide if this is really what you want to do.

You don't have to become a chef to work with food, but that depends on how loosely you want to "work with food". You can own or manage a restaurant, become a taste tester for new foods, become a pastry chef or cake decorator, become a nutritionist, etc.

Answer 2

Well I signed up for co-op this year and will probably be working in a restaurant style environment. I want to see how everything is ran, how everything operates, etc. Well, I am interested in a lot of fields. Not just generally food, but there's also computers, and such. I spend a lot of time on the computer already and want to try something I've had my eye on for a long time. (P.S, I know I'm using this like a forum or something, but I like using it like this. Hope it's okay.) I like the concept of food. Just not amazing at it. Can skills like these progress as time goes by?

Answer 3

If you're really not good at cooking, culinary school may not be the best next step for you.

What usually works the best is finding a field you are both interested in and successful in. I would love to be a pastry chef personally (no, seriously, I would), but I'm an English Writing major heading towards book publishing because I love it and I'm good at it.