Behind the Line: Perry Hendrix
Topic: Your Career
Non-Culinary Experience
Unless you emerged from the womb wearing a toque, you weren't born a chef, right? Tell us about some of your other work experiences. If you had another career before this, what did you do?
- Perry Hendrix
- Executive Chef
- Chicago, IL
During college, I did some lawn maintenance for rental properties, worked in the mail room & was a teacher's assistant (for a viticulture & enology class).
Answers from other users
- Carlo Lamagna
- Executive Chef
- Benny's Chop House
- Chicago, IL
I worked odd jobs here and there. Patient transporter, administrative assistant, martial arts instructor, and plenty of office jobs.
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- Melissa Trimmer
- Pastry Chef
- Le Cordon Bleu Chicago, Pastry Chef Instructor
- Chicago, Illinois
I have pretty much always worked in the kitchen from my first job on... Except that one year that I had just graduated from high school. I joined Americorps which Clinton had just started as an ur...
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- Josh Galliano
- The Libertine
- Clayton, MO
I was a summer camp counselor.
I was a graduate student.
Worked construction with my family.
- Kevin Nashan
- Executive Chef/Owner
- Sidney Street Cafe
- Saint Louis, Missouri
Worked in a steel mill for awhile but restaurants have always been in my blood.
- John Anderes
- Chef
- Telegraph
- Chicago, Illinois
I was a very popular Guru in the pacific north west before I got into this shit.