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Well, I'm a thirty-something year old professional Chef, I have been a chef my whole life, Mom and Grandma taught me how to cook. My first job was as a busboy in a restaurant while still attending high school, few years down the road when I was 18 I landed my first kitchen job as a dishwasher, within weeks I was promoted to prep cook and eventually became a line cook. Back in those days the

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Well, I'm a thirty-something year old professional Chef, I have been a chef my whole life, Mom and Grandma taught me how to cook. My first job was as a busboy in a restaurant while still attending high school, few years down the road when I was 18 I landed my first kitchen job as a dishwasher, within weeks I was promoted to prep cook and eventually became a line cook. Back in those days the "place" to be here in Daytona was The Chart House, that's where a lot of my friends works so that's where I went, started out in the "PIT" (dishes), next as salad/oyster/dessert guy then graduated to the line. The next 3 years I cooked and eventually became the Lead Cook, then I decided it was time to take it to the next level by enrolling into The Florida Culinary Institute in Palm Beach. Within 18 months I graduated with my A.S. in Culinary Arts, hooray me! All while attending school, I also worked full time at a little place known as PGA National Resort & Spa, seriously, this place was HUGE!! I worked in one of the main outlets known as Shula's Steakhouse and within 2 years I had been promoted to Sous Chef of the restaurant, one of the first students to ever achieve Chef status while still attending school.
Well in 1999, I had received news my mother was pregnant with my baby sister and on June 24th, 2000, Caitlyn Jayne Montgomery was born! After my graduation in '01 I dropped everything in Palm Beach to move back to Daytona to be with my mother and help raise my little sister, a move that I will never, ever regret because I love my sister with everything I have!! Unfortunately though, the culinary scene here in Daytona was not the same, and I had to take whatever job came along, I started back at the Chart House but things were not the same as they used to be so I left. I found good jobs but I was never truly happy after what I had experienced in P.B. I also made a lot of bad decisions and had always planned on going back someday, but due to a lot of bad decisions and an alcohol problem, here I still am. I have a great paying job at the moment, but it's just not what I want to do, I'm just doin it for the paycheck. Well, I've quit smoking and have greatly reduced my drinking and now I'm ready to move ahead in life again!! Leaving Daytona is going to mean leaving my sister, which I don't really think I'm ready to do yet, she's only 11 and she is still going to need her big brother for at least a few more years so I am totally prepared to stick it out for her, but I am the only one in control of my life and making it better and I am ready to do that, so here I am Team Beachbody!!

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