I really enjoy my career, so much that it really has become more of who I am. How I look, think, and spend my free time. It wakes me up in the morning, sometimes in the middle of the night, I go to sleep with it, and I spend most of my day with it. I am a culinarian.
There is nothing more satisfying then planning a menu, teaching it to those whom you work with, from the sales people, company owners, chefs, cooks, purchasers, and then watching the execution of the menu. It puts me in contact with many different personalities, job focuses, and theories. I learn a great deal through the entire process, from how I think, how others think of me, and how the thinking process works. I take all of that knowledge and put it into a menu that can satisfy everyone needs. It's what I do and how I live.
I really enjoy my kids, they are my life, they really make my day worth living, from when they wake up, when I talk to them in the afternoon, when I see them sleeping at night. It gets me excited to watch them do what they do, I am a father.
Dad, my favorite word now in the English dictionary, there is nothing more satisfying then teaching them to throw a ball, how to handle situations and think through them. They teach me on how they process things around them, they show me that they are people, they think, and they have their ways of handling life. I take that in and use it when a new situation arises; it's what I do and how I live.
I really enjoy my wife, she is my life, and she makes it so that I can live my professional life the way I need to. She is responsible for getting me back to sleep when I wake up in the middle of the night, reminding me to be patient with my kids and career, I am a husband.
Honey, she calls me, it's a great terms of endearment. We walk through our life on an interlocking parallel line, achieving our goals together and apart. Right now we are walking a tight line as she is battling Cancer. It takes all aspects of life to battle this.
What I realize more now than ever, is that all the different things I am rely on each other to be ultimately successful, and that when one of those go down, it seems that the other parts of my life are there to pick it up. The relationships that I have made throughout my life are what are now supporting what needs to be done. I am humbled.
We live our lives with food, people and celebration, which are what is now supporting my world. I am lucky to be a culinarian, father and husband and wouldn't change it for the world. Thank you to all who are reading this, as this it for you, because without you I would be incomplete.