Contrarian Expatriate wrote: ↑June 14th, 2020, 8:22 am
Once you finish mopping the floors, get to peeling potatoes for tomorrow’s breakfast!
Anthony Bourdain was an Executive Chef in one on New York’s most exclusive restaurants. He quit and wrote a book about the horrible lives that are lived by those in the culinary field. There are horrible hours, substance abuse, depression, fist fights and numerous other problems in the lifestyle.
We can see some of those very issues in you. The constant toxicity and the outright hatred of seeing others doing better than yourself are telltale signs that all is not right in your world. We get it, you’re not happy in life. Make better choices and fix that deplorable attitude and you might have hope. But frankly, I don’t see that happening because you’re too far gone.
Touched right on the sore spot, are you?
Poor Anthony Bourdain has always been a tortured soul. From what I heard from people who knew him personally, he has never been much of a culinary talent. He had always been more interested in writing and jumped on the publishing/travel journalism bandwagon as soon as he had an opportunity. The franchise he was an exec for went bankrupt a few years ago, a testimony of how "well managed" it had been.
About his book, I thought it would be obvious that he had to dramatise to the max to sell, especially in the States. Every industry has a "dark underbelly" ready to be "exposed" to make an article, a book, a documentary interesting enough.
He might have been a major TV personality and socialite, but Bourdain is definitely not representative of the profession, not even of the small world of "celebrity chefs", many of whom are not even professional chefs (Joe Bastianich was in finance, his parents were restaurateurs).
Having said that, the culinary world isn't for everyone. It's the opposite of what you chose, now I think about it. You chose to be a paper pusher for the US government because it's the best shelter for underperforming, lazy and entitled "minority hires" like you. You probably did next to nothing to deserve those promotions and that pension, but don't be fooled into thinking that this is the case everywhere.
Some people choose the hard way because they have real passion, real dreams and want to make them happen, whatever it may cost them.
The very fact you have no other arguments than pretend I am some lowly kitchen aide and mock me, of course behind a keyboard because that's the only way it works for you, really says it all about you, your past life choices and your present life choices.
Not to sound like
@Cornfed, but I now tend to agree with him: you have been little more than a trained monkey for the US government, put there probably only because they didn't have enough "diversity" in their ranks. If you can so easily disrespect other people's passion and hard work, it can only mean one thing:
you had none of that passion and put none of that hard work.
As I wrote on an earlier post: you are now in your mid (or late) 50s and what have you got to show? No family, no legacy, noone who even knows who you are, let alone respects and loves you. In the mind movie you run through every morning, your failures to create stable bonds with women have become a "blessing" because you managed to avoid relationships and the evil institution of marriage, which means you had even more cash to stash away or squander on testosterone shots and whores.
Your failures to interact with the real world have become a self-righteous sense of superiority. In fact, you're just lonely, isolated, even. You get endless criticism and insults even on a relatively obscure corner of the web as this forum.
You really amount to little more than nothing, and not because you are "poor" or because you pay for sex in Eastern Europe, like perhaps many. It's because you have always chosen the super-easy way, you never had to work hard for anything in your life and, apart from the government tits that will continue to feed you until death, you got nothing to show for.
What is worse, you bring this arrogant entitlement mindset with you wherever you go. Well, then, you reap what you sow.
In the Philippines? 