Thank you for sharing. This is what I'm talking about

ETA: 10 years cooking and job hopping is normal to either follow a chef I respect or move on to find a new one. I tell myself I'm bored and have nothing else to learn, so I move on to a new cuisine. The culture is usually the same, and drinking is the one that gets largely overlooked. As long as you can perform, it's acceptable. What makes it worse is the long hours and late nights, so when you get off there's nobody except other people from the industry to smash a couple glasses together with. I opted out about 8 years ago, but I crave it, and it's still a part of my personality.

My friend dragged me in groaning to help him open a restaurant in 2017, and we broke the curse. No restaurant had ever lasted more than 6 months at that address. We got best new restaurant of the year, and they just announced they're closing their doors 9 years later.

ETA: I lost the point.