Kitchen confidential (my version)

Well you all know that for a bit over a year now i've been a chef, or pastry chef. Well let me tell you, the people that you meat (haha get it?) are the craziest most unstable psycho amazing people you'll meet.
It is very different from musicians. Not all, but some musicians tend to be the artist type. The type that LIVE the hard road even though they've had lotsa cash to help them through. Cooks are a different breed of people. Basically, we are on a different time scheadule than the rest of the world, and that plays a big part on what your social life consists of.
basically, you wake up around noon, pay ur bills (if your not too stoned or drunk), get to work between 1-3 ( if your not head chef) to do your prep, and then cook all night, get home around 11, drink/smoke/curse the day/try and get some before you pass out, and then sleep. that is pretty much the life of a cook. There is never a moment of calmness in the kitchen. Unless you get there at 9am and get out by 3, there will never be quiet. So if you can't work in a stressful environment very quickly without mistakes (well ones that others can see) with people yelling "BEHIND YOU" to get by when the pizza guy gets a pound of flour in your flouress chocolate cake mix, then i'd say find another occupation.
Pain is another seperating factor. If you can't take pain, i suggest you put down the cooking book and lock yourself in an infirmary! Pretty much every day, i get cut, bruised, burned, or something to that nature. if it's not fire or a knife, it's a door or a single oyster that will get ya! Grease is one of the worst. It hurts like all hell for about 7 seconds, and then goes away. Then 3 minuets later it starts to hurt internally! haha! then it itches, and burns more if you put something cold on it! But the single most thing that is far more worst than a grease burn is....drum roll please......................... STEAM!!! Ever been burned by steam? ok, ever wrap something in plastic wrap, then cut it open, and then all the steam hit ur bare hand? let's just say steam can burn off your skin if concentrated enough. I've seen it happen! Not a good sight. and hmm, guess what i have to do every day? unwrap my appetisers when they are done, covered in plastic wrap! haha. but i got good at not getting burned!
The other side to pain is towel whipping. Now, if your the serious type, and say" listen fool, you whip me, you die" then your most likely gonna be fine. But if your the type that likes to be a hot shot and prove your a man/woman, then your gonna get tested with a towel! You gotta have a wet one ( not always) if you face a pro. At joJo, we go blow for blow ( arm out..whip...then your turn..ect.) No one will play with me anymore. Let's just say towel whips hurt less than tatoos, and last a lot less, and i have 3 of em! So when they whip me, theres no reaction, no matter how bad it sounds... and the fact that i can break cardboard and hard plastic, and put dents in soft metal, doesn't appeal to those guysb too much! It was the time when i got the head chef really good with my first hit, burst him open, i mean blood people, and game was over. since then, no one will go blow for blow with me! sigh, sad!
well that is a very short version of my expirience in the resturaunt business, but after a few more blogs i will update more on waitresses, bar backs, bartenders, owners in midlife chrisis, why all hostesses are from pods, and the myseries of the grease traps!