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I am insanely jealous of Anthony Bourdain

fuzzybabybunny

fuzzybabybunny

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He gets paid to:

Travel all over the world.
Reflect and write.
Eat awesome food.

My ideal life would basically be these things, with photography added in. I feel like I should just drop EVERYTHING, go formally study photography, buy myself a professional camera and a plane ticket, and go to the first place that a dart lands on on a map.

Right now... I've a 5th year senior in Supply Chain Management and having troubles finding a job or an internship... and when I do find these things I'll be caught in a standard work routine working for the man.

EDIT: *sigh*

I don't mean that I want to be LIKE the man, but that I want to do what he gets to do. I don't want to be a "jerk" or a chain smoking, hard drinking chef with a history of strong drug use.
 
Yeah, I saw ads for his show on my flight to FL last week. I was thinking that was a cool job... if I weren't married with kids.
 
Originally posted by: fuzzybabybunny
He gets paid to:

Travel all over the world.
Reflect and write.
Eat awesome food.

My ideal life would basically be these things, with photography added in. I feel like I should just drop EVERYTHING, go formally study photography, buy myself a professional camera and a plane ticket, and go to the first place that a dart lands on on a map.

Right now... I've a 5th year senior in Supply Chain Management and having troubles finding a job or an internship... and when I do find these things I'll be caught in a standard work routine working for the man.
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Did you read his book Kitchen Confidential?
That dude went through a lot to get where he's at. Serious junkie, serious. He did all the drugs you can think of.
 
given the talent that you have, seems like photography would be a really appropriate career choice for you. follow what you love, not what seems prudent
 
He is the traveler's traveler. All that matters is food and people. I've been to maybe half of the same places he has, and he is better than any other travel host I've seen in really giving a good impression of the place in the short hour he has to do it. Like being a guest of honor and being fed rice whiskey shot after rice whiskey shot in northern Vietnam, eating nasty shit at Highway 4 bar in Hanoi (I got wasted with the staff there after hours), the glory that is tako yaki and crazy Japanese beer-lovers, the man really hits the spot.

I'm still surprised he hasn't done Thailand yet.. he went to the Thai district of L.A., maybe he has something against going there. That can be the only explanation for him avoiding the culinary experience that is Bangkok.
 
And your best bet might be to graduate, find a job teaching English somewhere photogenic (Indonesia, Turkey, Vietnam, etc.) and work maybe 20 hours/week while setting up a stable income from photos. Good friend of mine is doing that in Bangkok right now, he'll take his equipment around with him on trips ranging from 3 weeks to 2 months, from Singapore to Japan to India, and just be a normal backpacker getting wasted with other travelers and whatnot and then in the daytime going to markets and other interesting places to take photos.

Hell even if it isn't a career you're probably a young guy with some time to waste, go for it.
 
Originally posted by: FrustratedUser

Did you read his book Kitchen Confidential?
That dude went through a lot to get where he's at. Serious junkie, serious. He did all the drugs you can think of.
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At least FBB will know where to start now.
 
On the show I saw tonight, he went to Jamaica. (I think it was a rerun, but one I hadn't seen) He made a couple of allusions to "something the network won't let us show or do, but is VERY common here." He said something stupid like, "I'm a stoned-serious reporter..."

Gee, I'm not quite sure what he was getting at...but he WAS spending quite a bit of time with Rastafarians...😀
 
Originally posted by: fuzzybabybunny
He gets paid to:

Travel all over the world.
Reflect and write.
Eat awesome food.

My ideal life would basically be these things, with photography added in. I feel like I should just drop EVERYTHING, go formally study photography, buy myself a professional camera and a plane ticket, and go to the first place that a dart lands on on a map.

Right now... I've a 5th year senior in Supply Chain Management and having troubles finding a job or an internship... and when I do find these things I'll be caught in a standard work routine working for the man.
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Go back to college and complete a bachelor's in your favorite subject, and go teach. You have several months off in the summer to travel around and try to break in - or do what someone else suggested above!
 
Kitchen Confidential was an awesome read. I started watching the No Reservations and liked it so i picked up the book, entertaining and informative on the restaurant industry.
 
Amazing job, except for that instance where he literally ate the partially cooked crap covered boar anus. That was pretty bad....
 
Originally posted by: yamadakun
Michael Palin is still the best travel presenter.
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I have a tremendous amount of respect for Palin. In such a small world he manages to find adventures that seem just as exciting as explorers of old. . British army recruit training in Nepal, travel by freighter from the Arab Peninsula to India, etc. However I think as far as keeping my attention goes, Bourdain is a better presenter.
 
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