For most of my culinary career I have had a side hustle. Catering weddings, Christmas parties, or graduation receptions, packaging bags of my sweet chili seasoning, freelancing restaurant reviews, submitting cooking columns, making pies for the farmer’s market, or setting up my hot dog stand on whatever corner in town, I have found some type of cooking gig to earn some extra cash.
A couple of years ago, I found a company that was recruiting chefs in the Des Moines area to teach cooking lessons. Basically chefs come up with the menus that they would like to teach, and the company then promotes and schedules the classes, and then is given a percentage of your revenue from the class. Intrigued, I contacted the company, told them that I was a chef, and I was inquiring about how to apply to be one of their culinary instructors.
A couple of days later, someone from the human resource department interviewed me over the phone and then told me that I had to send them a short video of me conducting a cooking demonstration. I love to make omelletes, and can practically make one in my sleep. So the choice was obvious. I would make a video on how to make an omellete. The company loved it and told me to submit a few cooking class menus. Once following through with that step, I was ready to go. Ready for people to start signing up for my entertaining, intriguing, and cooking classes taught by yours truly. There was only one problem.
Nobody ever signed up for one of my classes. Not one.
After a couple of months, of getting no cooking class gigs from this companies website,I contacted the company and told them to scratch my classes, and remove my name one of their instructors. But things sort of have a way of working out because a couple of months after I withdrew my services as a culinary instructor, I was called out of the blue by lady who informed me that they were looking for someone to teach cooking classes for adult learning classes. So in the end it all worked out.
The other day, I stumbled upon the omelette demonstration video that I submitted. I filmed it in my man-cave kitchen and was found it pretty informative and entertaining.
Then I thought that my subscribers my like to have a view of it. So here it is. My application video “How To Make An Omellete”.
VIDEO #2 - HOW TO MAKE AN OMELLETE
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