The Agony of looking for a job in Buenos Aires # 3 - Working in a Restaurant´s Kitchen

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Taking advantage that I was studying gastronomy  I decided to check out the restaurant job options in Buenos Aires, so I began spreading resumes all over town but concentrating in my home neighbourhood that happens to be Palermo where most of the fancy Restos are located.
My cook resume is basic but has some experience and the fact that I am pursuing my chef studies helps.
so actually i was called to several interviews for positions raging from kitchen help to supervisor and head of Com's.
I ended up doing some trial days at a restaurant in "Las Cañitas" called "las Cholas" that has good service and food but I realised that they exploit their employees since my post that was to be the evening manager of the whole establishment during 10 hours 6 days a week was paid 400 pesos when the minimum pay for that amount of hours ranges from 1000 to 1200 pesos, the people that worked in the kitchen earned much less and the waiters had to survive off their tips, most of them being Venezuelans that are here escaped from their country.

The Agony of looking for a job in Buenos Aires # 2 - looking for a new job

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So after I got laid off I started looking for a new job, not only in my area of expertise but also in other areas like gastronomy, since I was studying to be a chef, also in the diplomatic circles in embassys and consulates of English speaking countries.
At first I was called to various interviews that seemed promising but that later felled trough.














I was never layed off in Argentina so I thought it would be easy to find a new day job with some experience and good resume. Unfotrtunatelly when asking around for references I found out that most of my friends jobs were very unstable and were hanging by a thread, and also you come to realise that the facade that they put on does not coincide with their real way of making money, which depends more on some sort of lateral income than a real job.

The Agony of looking for a job in Buenos Aires - The Layoff

Maybe you noticed that I slowed down on my posts in this blog, the main reason was that I got fired from my day job in Buenos aires and my schedule was altered since I had to do several odd jobs to be able to survive here.
It all started in May 2017 right after a very good series of trips to Patagonia, salta and Uruguay.
I was full of trips scheduled for 2017 that got cancelled due to my economic uncertainty. You may think that I work as a full time photographer, but no. I normally do Logistic work, and it so happened that the company I was working for, decided to let me go along with other "10 lucky guys".
In this series i will recount all the new experiences that I went through in my 8 month job search.
First the layoff came as a total surprise since I was in good standing and had no problem with my boss or my fellow workmates. In the passing months I was told that the company has the policy of firing people before they gain seniority since here in Argentina your salary increases with seniority and also the indemnization they have to pay to get rid of you.