Comment by rkomorn

I'm all for it but maybe with caution.

I bailed out of a FAANG job to cook in restaurants in the Bay Area and it was very double-edged. I gave up after a year for a variety of reasons.

The actual work was definitely more enjoyable.

"Paying the bills", on the other hand, actually took a lot of money (and I had a laughably small mortgage and two people sharing it at the time).

I also worked way more hours (30-40% of which were unpaid because yay fine dining), and it was physically way more brutal.

But then again, almost 10 years later, I'm back to the idea of opening a place of my own because the current tech landscape really doesn't attract me at all anymore and I can't get myself to last in it.