Prior to leaving Reservation I decided to put my feelers out to see if there was an opportunity out there for someone like me, even with the limited though incredible and intensive training that I had. One of the organizations that I sent a feeler to was Alain Ducasse (http://www.alain-ducasse.com/public_us/en_ce_moment/fr_encemoment.htm ). For those of you who don’t know who Alain Ducasse is check out http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alain_Ducasse .
At the time that I applied I had relatively little experience in the scheme of things and was really just taking a shot at the dark. Just as I had with Reservation. They advised me that they had no openings at the time but that they liked my energy and my back story and that they would keep me in mind.
In an interesting twist of fate I had a conversation with Sous Chef A over the holidays and he said that he thought (as I mentioned on the blog) that I should go somewhere with my knife bag in hand and get some work. In our last conversation he mentioned that I should go to Alain Ducasse.
Low and behold I get home the other day and I have an invitation to come and work for Alain Ducasse. After quite a bit of jumping up and down, spinning round and round and basically shaking my head I pinched myself to see if I was dreaming. I opened my eyes and sure enough the email I had was real enough and I WAS NOT DREAMING. Except that I am taking steps to live my dream every day.
Of course I considered it in earnest and decided that the coming year is to be filled with some pretty great experiences and that I didn’t want to put them on hold. I will be part of rolling out two menus. Getting married. Possibly moving to NYC. As such I decided that now was not an ideal time. However I did celebrate the fact that living your dream, being true to who you are and working towards it each and every day is a beautiful thing and the universe in all it wonderful serendipity will reward you for your efforts.
Alain Ducasse. Are you f&^#’n kidding me? Needless to say I have archived the conversation in my gmail.
Ovid once said; “Let your hook always be cast; in the pool where you least expect it, there will be a fish.”
Are you dreaming big and inspired? WHY NOT?
A la prochaine
SDM
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