The main advantages of being a chef are the excellent job prospects, good salaries and good opportunities for career growth. Other fringe advantages include opportunities to be creative, being able to eat good and healthy food and being respected and even famous.
The most important advantage of being a chef is that there are almost unlimited employment opportunities. Apart from hotels and restaurants, chefs can work in hospitals, nursing facilities, correctional facilities, schools and universities and in the catering department of the airline’s industry. Grocery stores, delicatessens, cafes, trains, cruise ships and convenience stores also employ chefs. Employment is easy to find in any part of the world as long as the individual is skilled, and jobs usually tend to be long-term positions.