I don't see how anyone takes a job in the kitchen, especially in a new place. The hours (upwards of 80 a week at least for a startup) are insane and the pay generally sucks. People talk about "labor shortages" in kitchens. It's not labor that we're short on—it's suckers. You'd have to be stupid, insane, or just green to work in most kitchens. Maybe you're just so excited at the next, hypothetical future thing that you'll put up with whatever on your way "there." That, and the stress! You have to love stress to work in a kitchen. Have you ever stared down a line of Friday night dinner tickets after your sous just walked out of the shift crying because her mom died? No? Then you don't know stress.