Becoming an Executive Chef By: Anthony marji 2nd hr Career Tech

School/Training Required First to pursue your career in cooking you have to attend a culinary school. Before you make your choice find out as much information on the culinary schools you want to go to and see what's better for you.

Starting/Average salary Its all about how much experience you have and there are levels of different chefs. If you are just starting you make around 50,000 a year. If you are an executive chef you make around 100,000 or more each year.

Working hours Usually every chefs hours are about 9am to 10 at night. About 55-60 hours a week. The job is good but the hours are quite long and takes up your whole day.

Lifestyle Your making good money, pretty good lifestyle, long hours put in at work. But if you’re a low level chef that makes around 50,000 you have still a good lifestyle but average.

location Chefs are all around the world and you can definitely find a job somewhere. Since people need to eat just find a job at a nice restaurant and work for them.

Career cluster this falls under Being a chef would fall under hospitality and tourism because you take care of people by cooking them food which is hospitality

characteristics Work environment- in a kitchen cooking for other people. Environment is pretty safe if you are around people that know how to use the materials. Working hours-pretty long hours. You will be working for whole days. Salary and Benefits- job is very good money. You work hard and great amount of money is coming in Values- This job would exceed my values and I like cooking. Education and training- Attend a Culinary school and learn how to cook.

Job importance This job is very important to me because I love cooking. Food is something I enjoy doing. Cooking also has lots of advantages. Cooking has been a little hobby I did for a while. Cooking is a big part of people in life. Restaurants are located all around. I love seeing and trying new things. Foreign foods are really great. I just love seeing variety and seeing a Mexican food compared to a Arabic food. How exotic they both look.

Video Game designer

School Training You would want to go to a school that has graphic design in their school and check how good their program is. The best school I would prefer to go to for video game designers is University of Southern California.

Starting average/salary Average game designers make around 45 grand to 50 grand each year. But if you go with a good gaming company like Activision for instance you would be making well over 100 grand a year

Working hours You would work at least 5 days out of the week. Your usual hours as a video game designer would go to at least 9:00 in the morning to 7:00 at night. Which is about 9-10 hours a day

Lifestyle you could have The are pretty reasonable. You would live a pretty good life. You would stay busy too most of the day. I would say when you get a very good position in this job its an above average lifestyle.

location You can find video games, businesses and companies all around the world. I wouldn’t mind to work anywhere if my job wants me to.

Career Cluster This career cluster falls under information and technology.

10 characteristics Values-your computer to design a game. Work environment- usually to work anywhere. Salary and benefits-pretty good money. Working with data people things- computers ideas and graphic design. Abilities- it would be on the computer.

Job importance If you love playing video games you are going to love this job. Making video games for a living has its advantages and disadvantages. Video games is a big thing in the world. Ever since I was a little kid I played video games. Now I don’t play as much because I'm busy doing other activities. Other than that I would love to make video games for people because good money would be coming in if I make what fans love and it could be a whole series that I can start making.