How to Become a Personal Chef

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"My father's a personal chef, and he was actually in public relations beforehand. He's got no formal training. Now, he's a bit older but he, you know, it's he's been doing it, cooking for a long time. His wife does the same thing, and they're pretty successful, but the thing that helped them out was the associations that are out there for personal chefs. Maybe not even needing an associates degree in culinary arts; maybe a certificate. Just one year of background kind of cooking, basic cooking techniques. And these associations, you pay for them obviously, but they're they've got a really good support group and that's where I would steer people that want to do that. Having a good entrepreneurial sense would not hurt because you're in business for yourself. You've got, you know, you're a freestanding structure. You've got nothing behind you. It's you, your knives, and your pots and pans and food going to somebody's house, you know, basically, that many times you could have just met; never knew them before, and you're they're letting you in their house to cook and if you don't know how to get into their house first of all you're not going to make it. So, I would say, you know, you a little business mind of some kind or some business classes outside of the cooking stuff would not be a bad idea. It's gotten so popular in the last ten years and my father started in the early nineties with it, so they were on the real early end of it. So, I've been able to see how things grow with that."