Soft Skills
"You can always tell when a person has worked in a restaurant. There's an empathy that can only be cultivated by those who've stood between a hungry mouth and a $28 pork chop, a special understanding of the way a bunch of motley misfits can be a family. Service industry work develops the "soft skills" recruiters talk about on LinkedIn — discipline, promptness, the ability to absorb criticism, and most important, how to read people like a book. The work is thankless and fun and messy, and the world would be a kinder place if more people tried it. With all due respect to my former professors, I've long believed I gained more knowledge in kitchens, bars, and dining rooms than any college could even hold."
- Anthony Bourdain
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As someone who spent years, shield locked with brothers and sisters of the tong and spatula against the ceaseless tide of Hunger I can confidently say that restaurant work taught me a lot about handling difficult situations.
If I had to list some of those soft skills it comes down:
- Teamwork
- Resilience
- Flexibility
- Problem-solving
- The wild, madness of someone who might not win the day, but will make damn sure all of you will be limping -- no, crawling -- away from his brutalized corpse.