Exploring Professional Opportunities

Some professional opportunities that are available for me to pursue in cooking are a chef and restaurant owner. What I like about these carrers is that I will be able to pursue my passion. Also, that if I choose one of those careers, it will open many other doors in the field of cooking that I would be able to go into. Lastly, I would be able to open a restaurant work for myself if something ends up going wrong. 

What I don't like about the careers that I have found and researched is that most family owned restaurants don't make it for very long before they go out of business. Also, I don't like that you have to go to college to become a chef. I would like it much more if I were able to get a job at a specific restaurant and then learn the specific cooking style that they offer. 

Learning A Valuable Lesson

A valuable lesson that I have learned through 20 Time so far was to do things on my own. Typically during all of the projects that I have completed, we were given materials and instructions and then a certain time block we have to get it done, but in 20 Time we were given an example and then told to begin. I've never done anything like that before, so I learned a lot of valuable lessons during that process. 

This lesson will help me through the completion of this project by giving me the independence that I've never been given before. Usually I'll have to run my ideas by a teacher, but now I get to do whatever I want and that helps me achieve full creativity. When I am going under a rubric, then that will limit my creativity. But during 20 Time I get to do whatever I want. 

This lesson will help me through high school and my life by teaching me to be my own person. Usually in school we don't get to be ourselves. We're always told what to do and how to do it that we never really get to express ourselves. This lesson will help me because I'll know that when I express myself, that I'll have better results for the most part. If this project had a rubric and rules you had to follow, then most of my fellow students, including myself, wouldn't have had most of the amazing ideas that we did. 

Reflecting On Pitch Day

     For me, pitch day was a success. I think that it was very reassuring that many of the people that we spoke to supported our ideas. I'm excited to begin the final part of the project, which is going through and actually doing all of the stuff that we have spent so much time planning out. 

     I think that in the end all of our efforts are going to pay off. So in conclusion, pitch day was a big confidence booster in the sense that Ben and I got out ideas out there and so many of the people supported us and our efforts.