What made this program work for
me perfectly was the price point.
Just looking at the cost breakdown and how
the schedule rolls out and the time frame.
For years I've just thought, "I wish
I could go to culinary school but the
price tag is so daunting."  It just
blew me away than it was feasible.
When I first started at PVCC,
my goals were very broad.
They were: I want to open up my own
restaurant just like everybody else
other kid in there, in that class.
But it's not as simple as that.  It's like,
you have to work your way up.
Chef Eric Breckoff: "The life skills
that students leave this program with
can be summed up really by one thing:
and that's professionalism.
Students learn how to
how to work in teams.
They learn how to be on time.
They learn how to go ahead
and care for other team members
and make sure that the team succeeds.
every kitchen is a team, and the kitchen
either fails or is successful as a team.
The morning lectures
are just phenomenal,
where it's like, this is why we're doing
it, here's the science and it's just deep
enough to get you in love with it.  And,
you know, there'll be a demo where we're
seeing this is exactly, you know,
perfection and what we're shooting for.
And then in the afternoon, straightaway
we go into hands-on where we're in
the kitchen and we're applying all of that.
While I was at PVCC I had a job.
I was working at Farmington Country
Club.  And it was very cool to see the
stuff I was learning and apply that to
the job that I was working at right then.
And so now I get into one place, and I
try to grow there.  And when I feel I've
grown as much as I can I move on
and I grow even more.
And that's something that PVCC taught me.
It's such a privilege to be able to
get to play in the kitchen, in a way.
Like, it is really hard work.
But it's an environment where
you are learning.  There is no way you'd
be disappointed in this program.  I mean
all our instructors, they're just phenomenal.
They've had decades in the field.
And so, they're giving us really
good textbook information but tons of
real-world - this is how it's gonna be
and this is what this really means.
And it's it's so practical!
You do need to show up
and work hard, but it's so fun!
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